I find fic with the Wayback Machine tricky. I've backed up my own stories on it and I have backed up others in the past. Would I link a deleted story that's on the Wayback Machine only? Probably not, but I might share it with people privately if they asked for it. I feel like with Wayback it's kind of good to assume anything you put out there will wind up on that site since it's, well, how it works. Not to mention most sites let you download a story and all that. I'm not sure I really have a point with this exactly, but it's something I've thought about. Maybe fic shouldn't be backed up there and simply downloaded. Something I'll consider.

Everything else I completely agree with. Once there's an actual request on the author's part I feel like that trumps everything else including the Wayback Machine.