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 If there's no work left for a wiki reader to even consult, what purpose does a page serve?  What value is there in it?  No one can review the work, no one can find errors to correct or tropes to add.  I should point out that the "informational site" has been at that URL for ''years''.  This isn't just "hey, they forgot to renew last week" -- the work is utterly ''gone'', there's not even sufficient archivage in the Wayback Machine to point at.
-I don't do this casually.  I search for the work, both through Google and the Internet Archive.  If a work still exists in the Wayback Machine, I'll point the page ''there'', and ''have'', numerous times.  But a work that's utterly vanished?  What's the point?  As we say in the [[All The Tropes:Works Page Guidelines]], "Don't create a page for a work that no longer exists anywhere.  You can't document a work that can't be consulted and studied, and other editors can't go and check it out.  Don't do it.."
+I don't do this casually.  I search for the work, both through Google and the Internet Archive.  If a work still exists at a different site, or in the Wayback Machine, I'll point the page ''there'', and ''have'', numerous times.  But a work that's utterly vanished?  What's the point?  As we say in the [[All The Tropes:Works Page Guidelines]], "Don't create a page for a work that no longer exists anywhere.  You can't document a work that can't be consulted and studied, and other editors can't go and check it out.  Don't do it.."
 We're not here to catalog the simple fact that the work existed once -- we're here to analyze living works and how they're constructed.  If works that no longer exist deserve pages, then hell, so do works that never existed and are entirely imaginary.  Both have exactly the same amount of content to study.