Wayback citation notebook

Paste the exact URL from the archived page you opened. This notebook reads the date in that address and keeps your observation beside it. It makes no network requests and cannot confirm that a capture exists, that it opened, or that a statement is true.

The placeholder is Internet Archive Help's Yahoo example. It is not a capture checked by this notebook.

Citation draft

Fill the page title and check the opened capture before using a citation.

Research note

Your note appears here.
Comparing two captures

Make a separate note for each opened URL. Use “capture A shows ...; capture B shows ...”. A difference between copies does not establish when the publisher changed the original page. Inspect linked pages separately; their archived timestamps can differ.

Internet Archive's explanation of timestamped URLs