Check for broken links / removed content

e.g. The video associated with this item’s been removed:

Though not strictly a broken link it has similar implications (i.e. takes the user somewhere irrelevant), it looks like it’s still possible to detect this programmatically: Programmatically determine whether a Youtube video has been taken down - Stack Overflow

When detected it could trigger automatic cleanup, notify contributors so they could amend, or be added to a queue of maintenance work (in the same way questions with no options are listed currently).

This should probably live at the bottom of the priority list for suggestions as it’s a very minor inconvenience & quite a rare scenario.

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