Using archived_source for archive.org file repositories

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I recently learned I was using archived_source incorrectly and fixed the tagging and sourcing on my previous uploads. While doing this, I noticed archived_source was added to some magazine_scans (post #9963203, post #9963205, and post #9963206). But these are from archive.org's file repository, not their archived webpages. The reasoning for using the dead URL over the archived URL shouldn't apply here, right? These are more like uploads from Google Drive or mega.nz uploads rather than uploads from an archived website.

They must've ended up in the tag just because of the URL template in the wiki, since it currently doesn't distinguish between the Internet Archive's repository and the Wayback Machine specifically. Honestly, such links should probably still be tagged under something, but given archived source's functionality, it definitely shouldn't be that tag.

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