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 *Over time, the exceptions list should be audited so it doesn't acquire [[wikt:cruft|cruft]]. Val needs to mention URLs in the list that aren't in extlinks.csv anymore, and URLs which returned different codes from what was expected.
-*Val will eventually expand and test the interwiki links. Currently there is no way to know if they've gone bad since MediaWiki does not test external links, thus a bad link to, say, Wikipedia will always appear blue as if it is valid.
-*Val should test section links found in interwiki and intrawiki links. Intrawiki links will only appear red if the page itself does not exist; MediaWiki does not look at the section anchor to see if it exists.
-*If possible, Val will eventually start warning about externally-hosted images, as many of these have gone down with their file hosts over the years.
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