Thread:Project:Support desk/What should I do with the dead web links?/reply (3)

Yes, ref-tags still produce links and so I would expect that they are still recognized as broken by that script.

So, if I understand you right, you want to keep the links (kind of for historic reasons), but they should not be recognized as broken and they do not necessarily have to be clickable as they only lead to a 404 page anyway.

One possibility (of which I do not know, if it works would be): If the checker script has a way to recognize links, which it should not check (e.g. by adding a class to the links or so), then you could change your links that way.

nowiki tags might actually be a good solution, if the above is not possible.