: Re: How to document and cite website downtime properly? I couldn't find anything on this one, so maybe someone has a good idea on what would be considered good practice in a scholarly context.

@Welton431

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As a former university professor at one university, and now a full time research scientist at another, I would just add a footnote for any weeks in which the site was down. As a note, which is what they were invented for.

So "Week 7: Mar 11-17[1] The following headlines were gathered:

blah blah blah

And in the footnote:

[1]The site was inaccessible Mar 12, thus no data is shown for that date.

You can do the same for any other time missing, in hours if needed, or specify the times if you wish. The above is just a formatting example.

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