I believe you are missing out on Necromancer badges if you provide a replacement embed before you use the *dead invocation, but I'm not really sure. I do the same thing as you, i.e., if I find a dead video but can easily find a replacement embed to fix it, then I do the *backup first then invoke *dead. But if it takes me more than a minute or so to find a replacement with Google video search, then I just tag it *dead. I don't want to break a sweat.

BTW, I think most folks here don't care about the shiny, including me. I even thought about doing a poll just to see if I'm right, but even a poll about this is not important to me. The only reason I have a Necromancer badge (as well as Super Duper, Thumb Nailer, and Time Keeper) is because I went off my meds for awhile and went completely OCD with fixing shit up here. So the fewer badges you have, the more psychologically healthy you are. I'm only half-joking.

I want my shinies!!!

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I think you are missing out on the necromancer badge. Though I think it's fair to award it if a video is deaded and you supplied the backup. We'll try and get this into an update.

If you are looking to get some badge points, I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to locate a replacement embed for this video: http://videosift.com/video/Killing-Us-Softly-Volume-4 It was the full version of the video. I can only find trailers or commercials for it now.