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Aloha

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed a recent edit on Extremely large telescope where you removed a source with the edit summary "Page not found". Normally we do not remove sources for that particular reason as it is not a requirement that the source be online just that it be accurately summarized, published from a reliable source, from an experienced journalist or expert in the field etc.. Also, sometimes a page may be archived in what is called the Wayback Machine and can be linked from the archive for convenience. Not a huge and no reason to revert that, but should you have a moment, perhaps you could look and see if the source was legitimate and if it is not available online but still verifiable, it can be returned. Thanks and happy editing.--Mark Miller (talk) 18:16, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Mahalo, Mark. I'm new to contributing to Wikipedia and was unaware of this protocol. I'll take a look and revise my change accordingly. Thanks again. --SmallWon (talk) 18:25, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! Mark Miller (talk) 21:08, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Mark, you're fantastic. Thanks again! SmallWon (talk) 21:26, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

In the meantime, I found an alternative URL to the document of the removed source of the article. Of course, I'm sure you planed to do that any time soon. So no more removals of URL, OK? Use Template:dead link instead. -- Cheers, Rfassbind -talk 18:31, 10 May 2015 (UTC)