Aa I come across links I used to always send a PM to a moderator, but then I was told that sometimes the links are only temporarily dead because of bandwidth issues.  So I stopped bothering.

Though the other day I did send Bobby a PM about some free stuff that couldn't be found at the site linked to.

Are you going to be contacting the people before you delete their content, just in case it is a bandwidth issue and not a really dead link?

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi