Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests

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This page is for requesting modifications to URLs, such as marking dead or changing to a new domain. Some bots are designed to fix link rot; they can be notified here. These bots include InternetArchiveBot and WaybackMedic. This page can be monitored by bot operators from other language wikis since URL changes are universally applicable.

finlex.fi

Finlex.fi URLs aren't dead but for some reason InternetArchiveBot keeps adding archived URLs for them. This was brought up at meta:User_talk:InternetArchiveBot#Finlex.fi_URLs_aren't_dead a month ago:

Bot's edits: [1], [2], [3]. Some URLs it tagged as dead but are actually working: [4], [5], [6]. Those finlex.fi URLs that now have both a working URL and an archive URL should be tagged with the |url-status=live tag, and could someone try to tell IABot that Finlex is live? Thanks. 2001:14BA:9C94:9A00:E866:DADA:1085:E3D9 (talk) 09:28, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed that this same issue is being discussed at fi.wikipedia: fi:Wikipedia:Kahvihuone_(tekniikka)#Botti_hakee_arkistosta_kumottuja_lakeja 2001:14BA:9C94:9A00:E866:DADA:1085:E3D9 (talk) 09:41, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The site has a "Are you human?" check box (CloudFlare). This is causing the bot to think it's a dead site. I logged into iabot.org and changed the domain to "Subscription" status and that will cause the bot to avoid this domain, it won't set live or dead. My bot WaybackMedic has capabilities to bypass CloudFlare. I can try to process this domain and see what happens. My bot also has a feature "make live" ie. convert a citation from dead to live state. Unfortunately my bot only works on English Wikipedia. I'll let you know what happens. -- GreenC 15:13, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, this site has maximum security enabled, none of my tools can get through. It started happening in late January 2024. I don't know what to do because no bot is able to determine if a link is live or dead. And no archive service such as WaybackMachine is able to archive a page. Only humans can get through, and they need to solve a captcha. It might be worthwhile waiting to see if they relax security in the future, since this is a recent development. -- GreenC 00:40, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@GreenC: Before this section gets archived and if it's easy/fast to check, can you check if this is still the case, i.e. that the site still has the maximum security enabled and no tool/bot can get through? Thank you. 85.76.109.152 (talk) 06:21, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Question? When going to [7] it still asks "Are you human?" with the CloudFlare security tag at the bottom. This is a feature of CloudFlare service, clients have the option to enable, it's the highest level of security. I'm not aware of a tool that can bypass. What I will do is set a reminder in 6 months to check again and post the results here. I use W-Ping which posts a reminder in the watchlist at whatever time in the future with a custom message. -- GreenC 16:06, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Still on CloudFlare. -- GreenC 03:21, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like the captcha might have been removed – I'm not getting one on that link at the moment. Save Page Now also works. 2A00:807:D3:B2CD:1D64:EE5:ECA4:CA80 (talk) 08:40, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes one year later captcha lifted. I put this on my schedule to correct the dead link status (on Enwiki). I just reset the domain status in iabot.org to alive. -- GreenC 01:49, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

uptheposh.com

The domain www.uptheposh.com has been usurped, and all links (including sublinks like http://www.uptheposh.com/people/580/, http://www.uptheposh.com/seasons/115/transfers/) now redirect to an Indonesian gambling site Nina Gulat (talk) 16:43, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like WP:JUDI. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:54, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done in a WP:JUDI usurpation batch. -- GreenC 04:58, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

acig.org

Has been usurped by 1map.com. Needs adding archives and marked usurped Lyndaship (talk) 09:37, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Lyndaship, thank you. Awaiting next WP:JUDI usurpation batch: Special:Diff/1267870649/1267991245 -- GreenC 17:29, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done in a WP:JUDI usurpation batch. -- GreenC 04:58, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

vectorsite.net

This site died in 2012, until 2019 it went to Justhost, since then if you look at at archived page on wayback a file gets downloaded onto your computer. Putting a url directly into browser search brings up a squatter search site but with a url beginning ww3. Refill has in the past changed the cite url to one beginning ww1. Think it's safest to just archive and usurp the lot Lyndaship (talk) 12:50, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Awaiting next WP:JUDI usurpation batch: Special:Diff/1268240877/1268396625 -- GreenC 15:26, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done in a WP:JUDI usurpation batch. -- GreenC 04:59, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

arkivnamnden.org

This used to host the public archives of the Swedish city Göteborg. The archives moved to a new address starting from 2019. It is now displaying casino ads.

Example of use: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kungsladug%C3%A5rd,_G%C3%B6teborg#cite_note-12

https://web.archive.org/web/20200220132929/http://arkivnamnden.org/ - information about address change https://web.archive.org/web/20210413012018/https://arkivnamnden.org/ - up for sale https://web.archive.org/web/20230605133707/https://arkivnamnden.org/ - still for sale https://web.archive.org/web/20250105093523/https://arkivnamnden.org/ - casino ads

Should probably be marked as usurped and what has not already been changed to archive links should do that. 98.128.246.108 (talk) 14:19, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Awaiting next WP:JUDI usurpation batch: Special:Diff/1268240877/1268396625 -- GreenC 15:26, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done in a WP:JUDI usurpation batch. -- GreenC 04:59, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

airfields-freeman.com

672 pages. New domain is airfieldsfreeman.com. Cuba200611 (talk) 02:33, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In addition many can be converted to .htm
  1. https://www.airfieldsfreeman.com/KS/Airfields_KS_Wichita.html
  2. https://www.airfieldsfreeman.com/KS/Airfields_KS_Wichita.htm
-- GreenC 18:53, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
25 URLs

-- GreenC 19:44, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed the remaining URLs. Cuba200611 (talk) 07:14, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 674 pages and edited 664 pages. Moved 841 links to a new URL: 841 ruled mapped redirects, Added 3 {{dead link}}. Switched 62 |url-status=dead to live. Added 25 archive URLs (24 Wayback). Changed 95 citation metadata.

 Done -- GreenC 19:44, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

{{dead link}} verification

Every few years, I check all links marked with {{dead link}} and attempt to discover archive URLs for them. WaybackMedic has advanced search technology that can discover archives other tools miss. Typically about a 15% success rate. This is a large project and slow due to the number of articles, currently about 300,000. I do it in batches of 30-50 thousand articles, which takes a few days to process. The statistics/results for each batch will be posted in this section. This job consumes all bot resources, it will be on and off while doing other projects in between batches. -- GreenC 18:45, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 316,776 pages. Edited 51,694 pages. Added 54,626 archive URLs.

IABot DB

  • Updated 40,586 unique URLs which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 17:55, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

iucnredlist.org

The website linked to by Template:IUCN Map has changed urls.

The template has been updated, but the species id parameter needs to be manually(?) updated from # to #/# to reflect the new folder structure.

The id can be determined by searching for the species name at [8] , and copying the numbers from the url, e.g. on the lesser yellowlegs page {{IUCN_Map|22693235|Tringa flavipes}} has been updated to {{IUCN_Map|22693235/208218115|Tringa flavipes}}

Around 400-500 pages are affected.

I will start poking away at it, but happy to have some help. Thanks! Random fixer upper (talk) 20:05, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Manually searching 500 times is probably days or weeks of work. Do you have an API token, or can get one? [9] Then we can automate. The URL would look like this but it current says "Forbidden" without an API token (registration). More API endpoints here. Not sure which one provides the correct information. -- GreenC 23:18, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reply! I have no particular knowledge of the site -- just trying to fix a dead link... I believe the purpose of the template is just to create a link to a webpage with an interactive map, so I'm not sure the API would help... it's possible the save option for the advanced search would give a table with species name and url that could make some sort of automating possible, but downloading the results requires logging in (which is beyond my personal commitment level at this time). Random fixer upper (talk)

Solution: with the same example, load this url [10] which searches the WaybackMachine for every URL https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22693235/* (wildcard at the end). It gives a bunch not correct, one correct. For each, check the HTML source for the line:

<meta content='IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Tringa flavipes' name='citation_title'>

.."Tringa flavipes" we are looking for. It's a match, so we know the second number is correct ie. 22693235/208218115 .. that's it, as far as building the map. From there it is plumbing to fix the template. I can do this, but need to get through previous projects first, including Whitehouse.gov. This is a fairly rare scenario, I call it a "Ruled inferred mapped redirect". -- GreenC 02:43, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Random fixer upper, I was able to convert 370, unable to convert 57; conversion rate 87% (80/20 Rule). Rather than upload the conversions and discover there are errors, I posted 25 examples to Wikipedia:Link_rot/Cases/iucnredlist.org. Can you verify it looks OK, before I make the changes? Column 2 is the old and Column 3 is new. I also posted the 57 that require manual conversion. -- GreenC 19:48, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I see a problem: with this, it says "not latest assessment". The message is generated by JavaScript, which is invisible to web scraping, nor does it show up in a headless browser. The correct page is this. The best solution I come up is sort the ID digits numerically and choose the one with the largest number, under the assumption they are assigning the numbers chrono and thus the largest number will be the latest page. This may or may not work out, it's the only solution I can think of. I'm currently reprocessing and will post updated sample results soon. -- GreenC 18:25, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Try 3" is a clean sweep. I'm going to call this problem solved and upload the diffs. This was an interesting project: exploring WaybackMachine CDX records to find possible codes, sorting those codes (tricky) into an inference table, and web scraping for titles strings. -- GreenC 21:05, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Converted 370 {{IUCN Map}} to new ID codes.

 Done -- GreenC 21:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenC: That's great, thanks! Sorry I missed the request to check examples (my editing is sporadic). I'll start updating the one's that didn't migrate... Random fixer upper (talk) 19:47, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

seagames2021.com

58 pages. This domain is expired. Cherry Cotton Candy (talk) 15:05, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki
  • Added 76 archives in 60 articles. Required special handling can't post regular stats.
IABot DB
  • Fixed a handful of links

 Done -- GreenC 01:11, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

alphabetilately.com

Site seems to have been usurped by spam. I've fixed a couple of links manually to point to archive but it looks like there are a couple dozen other articles that refer to this site. BoredPenguin (talk) 02:13, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually it appears that the site still exists, but at https://alphabetilately.org. The URLs don't seem to have changed. BoredPenguin (talk) 02:15, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
5 pages. -- GreenC 00:33, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Already done by someone else thanks

IABot DB

  • Done

 Done -- GreenC 01:22, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tornado History Project and crh.noaa.gov

tornadohistoryproject.com

Links to tornadohistoryproject.com (a widely used source run by the Storm Prediction Center less than a decade ago, especially on older articles written before 2015) now redirect to an unaffiliated third-party essay writing service. Links should be considered usurped and dead where no archive URL is available.

Awaiting next batch at WP:JUDI -- GreenC 20:18, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done in a WP:JUDI usurpation batch. -- GreenC 04:59, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

crh.noaa.gov

Links to crh.noaa.gov (individual National Weather Service WFO summaries for severe weather events) are dead, but many still remain online on the new weather.gov domain. For instance, http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dlh/?n=1991halloweenblizzard can now be found at https://www.weather.gov/dlh/1991halloweenblizzard - the syntax is different but can be reasonably changed and the site contents are the same. I'm not sure why crh.noaa.gov isn't a redirect but regardless it's still used in a hell of a lot of weather articles and should be salvaged rather than just labeled as dead where possible. I think this also extends to other domains - if I'm not mistaken, crh is Central Region Headquarters, and there are likely others in the South and a few other parts of the country. Departure– (talk) 14:21, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, User:Departure–, there are 247 pages but a lot don't look like they map to the rule. I can try. Do you know of other domains? -- GreenC 22:16, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/?n=consec90 (cited on the page Colorado) on the CRH domain appears to map to https://www.weather.gov/bou/DenverSummerHeat if I'm not mistaken. However, this is just a contemporary equivalent and the original content of the site is not present, and I believe it has indeed been lost. I think a lot of the CRH links are dead but I know a lot of them can be recovered by transitioning to the weather.gov domains. Departure– (talk) 22:21, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In other words, a lot of links do follow the rule but a lot don't as they have been replaced. From what I can tell, a lot of links have been standardized with no clear rule to find the new one. However, many non-climate stories are still online, such as http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/?n=spi-tornado (cited in Springfield, Illinois) which can now be found at www.weather.gov/ilx/12mar06-tor2 - inputting the title from the cite template into https://search.usa.gov/search?v%3Aproject=firstgov&query=&affiliate=nws.noaa.gov can be used to recover links where the rule does'nt apply, assuming the site's content isn't lost. Departure– (talk) 22:25, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is tricky because if I replace a dead link with a new live link, but the live link has different content, the old dead link is lost we don't know what the original link was anymore. But if I keep the old dead link, plus add an archive URL, then the content is preserved. Thus the safer option is to add archives. Like the DenverSummerHeat example could be converted to this which is serviceable. -- GreenC 01:30, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

carnegieendowment.org

The URL is dead. Thanks, David O. Johnson (talk) 21:06, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

84 pages -- GreenC 20:14, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Or 1,268 pages to check the whole site. -- GreenC 20:16, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

Thanks. David O. Johnson (talk) 03:58, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
David O. Johnson: It appears the site has many soft-404s. For example this (2012 Georgia elections) redirects to this (2004 Bush administration). I'm doing my best to find and convert these to dead links with archive URLs, but it's imperfect. The bad ones mixed in randomly no pattern. It's a poorly maintained website, which is not uncommon, but worse than usual because of a random and high number of false redirects. I already committed some onwiki without realizing it. I could fix many more legit ones perhaps another 3 or 400, but without manually reviewing each, I can't safely build a redirect map. -- GreenC 19:52, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That sucks. Thanks for letting me know. David O. Johnson (talk) 20:22, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

nasportscar.com

found on the Josh Bilicki page, site appears to redirect to a sale website type thing Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 14:43, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done in WP:JUDI batch #24. -- GreenC 15:39, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

silverscreen.in

It seems the site is slowly dying. They ceased publishing new content in June 2022 due to COVID-19, and although they said the site would still be accessible, I don't know since when it hasn't been. The site's domain was previously silverscreen.in, and that must be dealt with too. Kailash29792 (talk) 05:06, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

According to the WaybackMachine it was last available on January 1 2025. That's an ominous date, first of the year, suggesting cut off. But it may be too soon to determine, I've seen sites disappear then return months or years later. In the mean time we have dead links. It's only 247 pages. There's nothing for the .in version. Well, technically speaking I can move cites from live to dead, then dead to live again. Recommend treat it as a dead site now, and if returns to the living, reinstate it. -- GreenC 05:19, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It was active even in mid-January. Maybe I was unclear about the original domain. It was https://silverscreen.in Kailash29792 (talk) 05:57, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
silverscreen.in has 364 pages. Do you want to do just that one for now, and check back on silverscreenindia.com later? -- GreenC 01:26, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, tag 'em dead. Silverscreenindia.com continues to show G-hits, although the links are not accessible. Kailash29792 (talk) 04:05, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 363 pages and edited 331 pages. Added 62 {{dead link}}. Switched 173 |url-status=live to dead. Added 139 archive URLs (136 Wayback). Changed 8 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Updated 536 unique URLs which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 08:03, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

heritage.org

Following an RfC, www.heritage.org has been blacklisted for being a cybersecurity risk. All URLs in citations should be archived and switched to url-status=unfit so that users don't accidentally click malicious links. Nemo 10:00, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1,079 pages. Will be changing to "unfit" status. -- GreenC 17:23, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 1,079 pages and edited 1,065 pages. Switched 1,430 to |url-status=unfit. Added 779 archive URLs (739 Wayback).
(fixed a couple dozen manually)

 Done -- GreenC 21:23, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Nemo 17:05, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

usaid.gov

Blanked page. 1,768 pages. -- GreenC 16:31, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 1,767 pages and edited 1,347 pages. Added 26 {{dead link}}. Switched 137 |url-status=live to dead. Added 1,511 archive URLs (1,472 Wayback). Changed 499 citation metadata.

 Done -- GreenC 04:17, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

royal-navy.org

Usurped and now links to a Japanese baby site Lyndaship (talk) 07:39, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done in WP:JUDI batch #26. -- GreenC 16:38, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

milb.com

MiLB.com (not to be confused with MLB.com) and web.minorleaguebaseball.com both have URLs similar to this:

They all have some crazy scheme, but they can (almost always) be fixed by taking the content_id and doing this:

They usually expand into something like /news/gcs-id but then the URL works.

If these URLs could be parsed into just the content-id and checked, it could save a bunch of links. There are over 1,000 milb.com links and 158 minorleaguebaseball links. Chew(V • T • E) 18:03, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

minorleaguebaseball.com

375 pages
Enwiki
Checked 395 pages and edited 345 pages. Moved 351 links to a new URL: 344 ruled mapped redirects, 7 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 71 soft-404s. Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 26 {{dead link}}. Switched 108 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 9 |url-status=live to dead. Added 131 archive URLs (105 Wayback). Changed 88 citation metadata.

milb.com

2,178 pages
Enwiki
Checked 2,602 pages and edited 2,427 pages. Moved 3,624 links to a new URL: 446 normal redirects, 3,063 ruled mapped redirects, 115 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 470 soft-404s. Removed 2 {{dead link}}. Added 50 {{dead link}}. Switched 215 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 62 |url-status=live to dead. Added 638 archive URLs (632 Wayback). Changed 3,528 citation metadata.

 Done -- GreenC 17:07, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

diehardgamefan.com

Looks like the website (https://diehardgamefan.com/) for DieHard GameFan is dead (it has a WordPress error I've never seen before); 167 pages. Sariel Xilo (talk) 22:25, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 169 pages and edited 153 pages. Switched 61 |url-status=live to dead. Added 128 archive URLs (126 Wayback). Changed 23 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Updated 161 links to propagate through 300+ wikis.

 Done -- GreenC 19:41, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

www.TheyPouredFire.com

www.TheyPouredFire.com Usurped link 116.255.53.19 (talk) 14:32, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah The Lost Boys of Sudan. I read They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky back in 2005, it was unforgettable. Happy to help Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, and Benjamin Ajak. The site is still active at https://www.theypouredfirebooks.com .. the old link is only one page, I fixed manually. -- GreenC 15:16, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done -- GreenC 15:32, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

fivethirtyeight.com

FiveThirtyEight was shutdown a few days ago; parts of the website (fivethirtyeight.com) have an archive tag (ex: [11] & [12]) & seem accessible if you have a direct link while other parts (ex: [13] & [14]) are redirecting to https://abcnews.go.com/politics. Over 2000 pages. Sariel Xilo (talk) 01:18, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

IABot DB

  • Updated about 1,000 URLs which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 04:34, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

theaustralian.news.com.au

These old links do not work, such as tthis link at Marampa. Unfortunately, it does not convert to a new link at theaustralian.com.au/. I also could not find a new link with Jack 2. ~1,600 pages (some of which have been archived already). Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 16:47, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 1,709 pages and edited 638 pages. Added 196 {{dead link}}. Switched 28 |url-status=live to dead. Added 411 archive URLs (222 Wayback). Changed 142 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Updated about 2,700 unique URLs which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 20:16, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

itunes.apple.com

30,121 pages. A general sweep looking for dead links and redirects. -- GreenC 16:28, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

Pass 1 (00001-00500): Checked 500 pages and edited 473 pages. Moved 919 links to a new URL: 917 normal redirects, 2 ruled mapped redirects, Added 130 {{dead link}}. Switched 18 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 63 |url-status=live to dead. Added 388 archive URLs (386 Wayback). Changed 109 citation metadata.
Pass 2 (00501-08000): Checked 7,504 pages and edited 6,939 pages. Moved 9,327 links to a new URL: 9,307 normal redirects, 20 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 2 {{dead link}}. Added 749 {{dead link}}. Switched 252 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 609 |url-status=live to dead. Added 4,058 archive URLs (4,025 Wayback). Changed 1,647 citation metadata.
Pass 3 (08001-16000): Checked 8,003 pages and edited 7,373 pages. Moved 9,888 links to a new URL: 9,871 normal redirects, 17 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 2 {{dead link}}. Added 1,075 {{dead link}}. Switched 235 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 553 |url-status=live to dead. Added 4,412 archive URLs (4,379 Wayback). Changed 1,392 citation metadata.
Pass 4 (16001-24000): Checked 8,000 pages and edited 7,439 pages. Moved 10,169 links to a new URL: 10,151 normal redirects, 18 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 1,026 {{dead link}}. Switched 191 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 615 |url-status=live to dead. Added 4,683 archive URLs (4,635 Wayback). Changed 1,538 citation metadata.
Pass 5 (24001-30121): Checked 6,123 pages and edited 5,667 pages. Moved 7,681 links to a new URL: 7,669 normal redirects, 12 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 734 {{dead link}}. Switched 180 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 522 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,526 archive URLs (3,487 Wayback). Changed 1,227 citation metadata.
Note: Many of the links marked dead or with archives added are in fact available on the live web at a different URL, the redirects only need to be mapped. The mapping can be done by using the Apple search engine. However it is not precise, and would be difficult. A project for another day. -- GreenC 19:21, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 19:21, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

uefa.com

24,087 pages. -- GreenC 00:10, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

Pass 1 (00000-01000): Checked 1,000 pages and edited 703 pages. Moved 1,477 links to a new URL: 360 normal redirects, 1,092 ruled mapped redirects, 25 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 219 soft-404s. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 67 {{dead link}}. Switched 30 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 45 |url-status=live to dead. Added 462 archive URLs (351 Wayback). Changed 1,600 citation metadata.
Pass 2 (01001-06000): Checked 5,000 pages and edited 3,424 pages. Moved 8,108 links to a new URL: 1,654 normal redirects, 6,297 ruled mapped redirects, 157 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 1,388 soft-404s. Removed 4 {{dead link}}. Added 393 {{dead link}}. Switched 104 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 234 |url-status=live to dead. Added 2,857 archive URLs (2,430 Wayback). Changed 5,553 citation metadata.
Pass 3 (06001-12000): Checked 6,001 pages and edited 4,097 pages. Moved 9,927 links to a new URL: 2,011 normal redirects, 7,740 ruled mapped redirects, 176 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 1,910 soft-404s. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 525 {{dead link}}. Switched 146 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 269 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,078 archive URLs (2,588 Wayback). Changed 5,970 citation metadata.
Pass 4 (12001-18000): Checked 6,000 pages and edited 4,070 pages. Moved 9,681 links to a new URL: 2,069 normal redirects, 7,340 ruled mapped redirects, 272 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 2,228 soft-404s. Removed 5 {{dead link}}. Added 560 {{dead link}}. Switched 114 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 373 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,157 archive URLs (2,717 Wayback). Changed 5,409 citation metadata.
Pass 5 (18001-24087): Checked 6,089 pages and edited 4,178 pages. Moved 10,300 links to a new URL: 1,862 normal redirects, 8,224 ruled mapped redirects, 214 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 2,386 soft-404s. Removed 7 {{dead link}}. Added 524 {{dead link}}. Switched 147 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 321 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,571 archive URLs (3,024 Wayback). Changed 6,115 citation metadata.

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 22:44, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

af.mil

The Pentagon needs assistance. About 9,000 pages. -- GreenC 03:51, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

IABot DB

  • Checked about 24,000 unique URLs. Updated about 10,000.

 Done -- GreenC 02:28, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

dn.se

First time here. While editing I found the dead link http://www.dn.se/sport/fotboll/lennart-johanssons-pokal-opererad-1.1228512 could be replaced by https://www.dn.se/sport/fotboll/lennart-johanssons-pokal-opererad/. There looks to be at least some 100 of these where the -1.(six or seven digits) may be removed to create functional links. https possible. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 20:01, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

3,100 pages. -- GreenC 03:37, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

Of the 1,855 ruled mapped redirects 346 were of the "-1.xxx" variety. The rest were conversion to https.

 Done -- GreenC 05:14, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

usip.org

United States Institute of Peace was forceably shutdown by DOGE with help from DC Capital Police (guns involved by not fired). Website was shut down. 933 pages. -- GreenC 19:16, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 936 pages and edited 758 pages. Added 52 {{dead link}}. Switched 158 |url-status=live to dead. Added 681 archive URLs (599 Wayback). Changed 114 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Checked about 1,100 unique links and updated about the same. Changed domain status permadead.

 Done -- GreenC 16:45, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

US agencies slated for shutdown or dismantling

GreenC 21:24, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ω Awaiting further developments and time to go through them -- GreenC 16:46, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

redimps.co.uk

not entirely sure how to format this request but this domain is no longer active, and used on 234 pages. pages live at new domain weareimps.com, with a link such as https://www.redimps.co.uk/news/2021/january/210106-tommy-docherty/ salvageable by changing the domain ([15]). links ending .aspx cannot be saved by changing domain - [16] is still live at [17] but no way to arrive at this by just changing the domain. Microwave Anarchist (talk) 01:46, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can do this. Anything that can't migrate will convert to archive URL. Have a few to get through above first. -- GreenC 03:06, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 235 pages and edited 91 pages. Moved 105 links to a new URL: 105 ruled mapped redirects, Added 8 {{dead link}}. Switched 3 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 2 |url-status=live to dead. Added 37 archive URLs (34 Wayback). Changed 2 citation metadata.
The 105 moved links are redimps.co.uk --> weareimps.com
  • Pass 2: Checked 235 pages and edited 63 pages. Added 33 {{dead link}}. Switched 2 |url-status=live to dead. Added 94 archive URLs (77 Wayback). Changed 1 citation metadata.
Realized the 404s were returning 200 (soft-404). Re-ran it adding more archives.

IABot DB

  • Checked about 800 unique links and updated. Set domain status to permadead

 Done -- GreenC 19:00, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thetimes.co.uk

The Times migrated from thetimes.co.uk to thetimes.com in 2024. There are instances of URLs across Wikipedia that reference the .co.uk domain. For example, the page for Russell Brand references this URL. There are over 22,000 links discovered here. Lukethetimes (talk) 11:29, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This site is disorderly:
  • thetimes.co.uk
  • timesplus.co.uk
  • timesonline.co.uk
  • thesundaytimes.co.uk
  • thetimes.com
There are probably others. I worked on it 6 months ago Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests/Archives/2024/October but clearly more to go. It had a ton of soft-404 problems making it challenging to differentiate between live and dead links. Maybe I'll just focus on thetimes.co.uk and see what happens. -- GreenC 18:59, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for picking these up. I had one query to check - I can see the URLs tackled in this list successfully redirect to the .com domain, however don't pick up our subfolders. For example, in the references for the Woken page:
Corr, Julieanne. "Irish beach the scene for new feature film". The Times.
The pathway of the referenced URL is .com/article. However, the canonical URL is on the pathway .com/world/ireland-world/article.
Please would it be possible for the canonical URL paths to be added? Thank you, I appreciate that's an added step! Lukethetimes (talk) 08:16, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:Lukethetimes: The step is built-in to the boilerplate code. It follows redirects to the final destination. I just re-ran Woken a couple times, and am getting inconsistent header results. Sometimes it returns 301 with a new Location, and sometimes a plain 200. In the 301 header there is X-Cache: Miss from cloudfront while in the 200 header X-Cache: Hit from cloudfront. I'll send you the full headers if you like. -- GreenC 15:10, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry I became confused by the data, the 200 header is actually of the canonical URL, which is correctly 200. Anyway, I don't understand why it didn't follow the redirect because when I try it now it is following to the canonical URL. Did you make any changes on your side, in the past 12 hours or so? -- GreenC 15:23, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like possibly an intermittent problem. After processing all links, there are about 8,000 with ".com/article" .. the rest are the canonical. I suspect header data might be inconsistent. -- GreenC 15:31, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going to finish uploading the rest. In the future can redo the .com URLs looking for redirects and changing them again during another phase. Hopefully by then this problem will have resolved, it looks like a problem with CloudFlare or Times sending incorrect headers, but inconsistently. -- GreenC 02:18, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly. That's interesting there's inconsistency with incorrect headers, I'll take this away on my side. Appreciate your help with this! Lukethetimes (talk) 09:23, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is appearing easier than timesonline.co.uk (6 months ago) because redirects are still live for thetimes.co.uk

Enwiki

Pass 1 (00001-01000): Checked 1,000 pages and edited 995 pages. Moved 1,300 links to a new URL: 50 normal redirects, 1,246 ruled mapped redirects, 4 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 16 soft-404s. Added 5 {{dead link}}. Switched 41 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 2 |url-status=live to dead. Added 31 archive URLs (17 Wayback). Changed 42 citation metadata.
Pass 2 (01000-10000): Checked 9,000 pages and edited 8,974 pages. Moved 11,640 links to a new URL: 426 normal redirects, 11,098 ruled mapped redirects, 116 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 155 soft-404s. Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 62 {{dead link}}. Switched 330 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 27 |url-status=live to dead. Added 182 archive URLs (112 Wayback). Changed 4,939 citation metadata.
Pass 3 (10001-22277): Checked 12,277 pages and edited 12,232 pages. Moved 15,986 links to a new URL: 622 normal redirects, 15,219 ruled mapped redirects, 145 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 231 soft-404s. Added 98 {{dead link}}. Switched 469 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 35 |url-status=live to dead. Added 325 archive URLs (216 Wayback). Changed 7,469 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Uploaded the apx 570 archive links identified above. Not confident to process the entire domain until the intermittency problem is understood.

 Done -- GreenC 02:52, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

m.mlb.com

Back again. Every single one of these links to m.mlb.com ALWAYS gets redirected to mlb.com, path ignored, making links useless.

Some things to help with:

  1. News articles.
    1. Prior they look like this: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/155452870/top-facts-about-mets-royals-world-series (the part after the ID may be omitted)
    2. If you take that ID and do this: http://mlb.com/news/c-155452870
    3. It gets expanded into this: https://www.mlb.com/news/top-facts-about-mets-royals-world-series/c-155452870
  2. Gameday links.
    1. Prior they look like this: https://m.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-cardinals/2016/08/23/448740
    2. These can just safely be replaced with mlb.com, removing the m.
    3. They would just get turned into this: https://mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-cardinals/2016/08/23/448740
  3. MLB Cutfour/4
    1. Prior they look like this: http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2015/05/06/122710430/did-you-know-that-george-clooney-tried-out-for-the-reds-in-1977 (the ending part after the ID may be omitted)
    2. Like with news, but keep the cutfour and change it to cut4, and get the ID from the middle (after date): https://www.mlb.com/cut4/c-122710430
    3. Gets expanded into this: https://www.mlb.com/cut4/did-you-know-that-george-clooney-tried-out-for-the-reds-in-1977/c-122710430
  4. Player links.
    1. They look like this: http://m.mlb.com/player/645277/ozzie-albies (the /ozzie etc part at the end may be omitted, you only need the 6 digit ID)
    2. They can just be replaced with https://www.mlb.com/player/645277 (or if you remove the m, https://mlb.com/player/645277/ozzie-albies)
    3. Regardless, they will expand into https://www.mlb.com/player/ozzie-albies-645277
  5. Anything else, just remove the m. and see what happens. If it's a redirect to mlb.com with nothing else, mark it as dead. If it redirects somewhere useful (if you can even check), or it doesn't redirect at all, it should be okay to just replace without the m (for example, http://m.mlb.com/glossary/rules/balk turns into https://mlb.com/glossary/rules/balk with no issue). Some of the above things, especially 1 and 3, might end up as dead, unfortunately (like http://m.mlb.com/news/article/83873114/ten-facts-for-100th-anniversary-of-babe-ruths-debut would turn into http://mlb.com/news/c-83873114 but this is dead). Players and gameday should never come up as dead, as all these IDs should still work.

This would rescue a bunch of links, there are 2,048 m.mlb.com links floating around and saving even half of them would be a huge help. Chew(V • T • E) 21:17, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for laying out clear rules that makes it easier to setup. I think most of them are resolved one way or another. There are 1,200 remaining but many of those converted to www.mlb.com, they just have old archive URLs showing up in search. -- GreenC 02:18, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

IABot DB

  • Checked and updated about 10,000 unique URLs

 Done -- GreenC 02:42, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

zap2it.com

Site moved to a new provider. More details at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television#Possible_Zap2it_closure_-_what_to_do?. Over 11,000 pages. -- GreenC 22:48, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

IABot DB

  • The database has about 30,000 unique URLs. I uploaded about 5,000 changes set the domain globally to permadead

 Done -- GreenC 04:54, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

gameinformer.com

The site has been revived following the site's shutdown in August 2024. A request was made then (here), and I believe that should now be essentially reversed, where all uses of https://www.gameinformer.com should be adjusted from |url-status=dead to |url-status=live. I've picked a very, very small handful of links in use on articles to check original urls and they all seem good and active. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 00:16, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do a "makelive" which blindly converts everything to live status and removes {{dead link}} (keeping any archive URL). Then I'll do a second pass looking for legitimate dead links and convert those to dead status. It's churn, but that's how the bot works it needs two passes. Hopefully not too many dead links. 6,500 pages. -- GreenC 01:00, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:42, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There are some ancient links that were already dead when the site was disestablished. These area accidentally being marked as live, e.g. here. IceWelder [✉] 18:31, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
They are currently being repaired in "Pass 2" (below). I first changed all links to live, in Pass 1, and in Pass 2 recheck them and set to dead as needed. Turned out to be about 2,600 dead links. -- GreenC 18:35, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think Pass 2 is not capturing them correctly. In this case, it https-ified the broken link. IceWelder [✉] 18:52, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:IceWelder, thanks for this. [18] returns header status 200 thus considered live by the bot. The page has a "Crunchy-404" appearance ie. it has some content but is missing the actual review. It even gives a title, author and date. But wrong information. I can reprocess everything in Pass 3 and check the page for the string "Sorry, no reviews are available for this platform." - If you find any more like this let me know I will add additional rules. -- GreenC 19:08, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, not working so far (assuming this was pass 3). IceWelder [✉] 18:27, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Pass 1: Checked 6,565 pages and edited 6,414 pages. Removed 31 {{dead link}}. Switched 9,914 |url-status=dead to live.
Note: the stats don't report everything, like removing archive URLs from square links etc
  • Pass 2: Checked 6,565 pages and edited 4,260 pages. Moved 3,598 links to a new URL: 139 normal redirects, 3,459 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 318 soft-404s. Added 31 {{dead link}}. Switched 1 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 2,579 |url-status=live to dead. Added 37 archive URLs (28 Wayback). Changed 35 citation metadata.
Note: Over 2,600 dead links discovered. The 3,459 ruled mapped redirects is mostly http -> https
  • Pass 3: Checked 6,565 pages and edited 296 pages. Moved 61 links to a new URL: 61 normal redirects, Resolved 609 soft-404s. Added 31 {{dead link}}. Switched 3 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 317 |url-status=live to dead. Added 2 archive URLs (2 Wayback).
Note: Found another 319 dead links that are soft/crunchy 404s per above

IABot DB

  • Checked about 12,000 URLs

 Done -- GreenC 00:44, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

nakedsecurity.sophos.com

Entire domain https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com is dead. URLs can sometimes be salvaged by changing the domain to news.sophos.com leaving the path unchanged (i.e https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/en-us/2016/08/18/nists-new-password-rules-what-you-need-to-know/ -> https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2016/08/18/nists-new-password-rules-what-you-need-to-know/ ) * Pppery * it has begun... 16:09, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

154 pages -- GreenC 18:56, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

Summary: made 78 live to "news". 104 are dead.

IABot DB

  • Processed 284 unique links

 Done -- GreenC 15:18, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

abc.net.au/news/stories

This is now here for Reaction Time (book), but unfortunately does not redirect. It also can't be converted to the new URL as the id does not match. ~3400 articles. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:57, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 3,480 pages and edited 3,322 pages. Added 31 {{dead link}}. Switched 959 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,734 archive URLs (2,604 Wayback).

IABot DB

  • Processed and updated 5,500 unique links

 Done -- GreenC 00:32, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

wayback.archive.org

Found ~50 articles using wayback.archive.org. Thought I mention it here cause of WaybackMedic. Also, for some reason Rich Harden and Truce of Altmark have archive.today links that archived wayback.archive.org links. This does make me wonder if there are any other archive.org links that have archive.today in the URL. Haven't figured out the syntax for that. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:09, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote a program that runs automatically every 2 weeks converting non-standard Wayback domains like this one to web.archive.org. It won't convert strings outside a URL, URLs with a timestamp with a "*", URLs in a wiki comment, etc.. so that is probably most of it, various edge cases that would be better done by hand. Not too concerned with the double archives at Archive.today they exist but in small numbers. WaybackMedic can unwind double/triple archives when encountered. -- GreenC 18:52, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thepogg.com

The website redirects to a different site. Thanks, David O. Johnson (talk) 21:07, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ω Awaiting in the todo list at WP:JUDI for usurp. GreenC 22:26, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

www.olympic.org.nz

Most of them links have new locations at https://olympic.org.nz/ while some need archives

Games

  1. This is now here for 1980 Summer Olympics (/games/location-year)
  2. Similarly, Most links with /games/ can be converted. This is now here for Shane O'Brien (rower) while this is now here for New Zealand at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.
  3. However, this link for Sam Webster (cyclist) doesnt have a replacement.

Athletes

  1. This is now here for Ryan Nelsen (/athletes/firstname-lastname)
  2. Similarly, this is now here for Greg Henderson
  3. Also, this is now here for Peter Mander.
  4. [19] can be converted to [20] (lowercase)
  5. [21] can be converted to [22] (lowercase)

News

  1. Some /news/ are the same URLs. They need the ending slash removed. For example. this is now here at 2018 Commonwealth Games.
  2. Other /news/ links are broken, such as this one at New Zealand at the 1948 Summer Olympics
  3. Urls with /nzoc/news/ don't have replacements, like this one at 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Any other links not in these 3 categories needs archives as I don't see replaceable links. ~900 articles. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:55, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:MrLinkinPark333, I can make rules for Games#2 and Athletes#2 and Athletes#4 and Athletes#5 and News#1 .. the rest I don't see a good way -- GreenC 03:09, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also note broken links like this return status code "200" it should be 404 ie. soft-404 - need to web scrape for keywords. -- GreenC 15:22, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
They use JS, making web scraping impossible. Trying w3m/lynx clients which appear to return an empty result when page not found. -- GreenC 15:34, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 969 pages and edited 843 pages. Moved 825 links to a new URL: 2 normal redirects, 823 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 55 {{dead link}}. Switched 49 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 6 |url-status=live to dead. Added 117 archive URLs (106 Wayback).
Summary: Converted 825 links. Found 273 links unable to convert. Some already had archives, 117 new archives and 55 {{dead link}}

IABot DB

  • Processed about 2,400 unique links updated about 700

 Done -- GreenC 21:26, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you post a list of ones that werent able to convert? If you could sort them into categories (like athletes, news, etc.), I'll see which ones I can convert over manually. Some of them I'll have to keep as archives. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:04, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:Link_rot/Cases/www.olympic.org.nz - the first 20 or so are sorted out of order because they start with https -- GreenC 01:53, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

equipu.cl

This domain apparently expired, I am not sure how many links are to "equipu.cl" and how to replace them. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:13, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

22 pages. Will do. -- GreenC 18:39, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 22 pages and edited 20 pages. Added 3 {{dead link}}. Switched 2 |url-status=live to dead. Added 16 archive URLs (16 Wayback).

IABot DB

  • Processed about 50 unique links

 Done -- GreenC 22:39, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

tfaw.com

TFAW (Things From Another World) announced that it is shutting down with its website (https://www.tfaw.com/) going dark on April 30. It's a comics e-commerce site with some amount of blog posts; only about ~60 articles although it looks like a lot of the older blogs from the site (like from before 2010) are already dead. Sariel Xilo (talk) 22:12, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 61 pages and edited 25 pages. Added 2 {{dead link}}. Switched 1 |url-status=live to dead. Added 23 archive URLs (14 Wayback).
Looks like most were previously archived

IABot DB

  • Processed and updated 94 unique links

 Done -- GreenC 22:59, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

voanews.com

Voice of America - check site integrity. 8,800 pages. -- GreenC 22:00, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

IABot DB

  • Checked about 25,000 links and updated about 8,000

 Done -- GreenC 22:57, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

defense.gov

6,400 pages. -- GreenC 22:50, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

IABot DB

  • Checked about 6,000 links and updated about 2,700

 Done -- GreenC 02:48, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

prola.aps.org

prola.aps.org was formerly used for serving articles from journals of the American Physical Society. It's been redirecting since about 2015 but is currently giving a 502 error.

Most links are of the form http://prola.aps.org/abstract/<journal>/v<volume>/i<issue>/p<page>_<article>. The new URL structure drops the issue number. The first article on the page gets a link with no article suffix, whereas the second article on the page receives a ".2" suffix. Journals now have a short code and a long code.

The page may be non-numeric, e.g. "A171" or "R17".

Some articles have an "e" number instead of a page number, sometimes with a trailing slash, this is treated as a page number in the new system, without the "e" prefix or slash.

Some old URLs have a query string, which can be discarded.

Some editors linked to the PDF instead of the abstract page. For paywalled articles, the PDF link is an unhelpful error message and should be avoided. For open access articles, it does work, with /pdf/ in the URL instead of /abstract/ like in the old system.

We have three links to /pagegif/, a feature which apparently no longer exists. These should go to the abstract or PDF.

Examples:

Tim Starling (talk) 00:42, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirecting since 2015. There is high probability the redirect mappings are stored in the Wayback Machine:
It's only 96 pages. I'll retrieve these, and post the map before uploading for your review. Given the small scale and complexity I don't want to program too much. -- GreenC 03:28, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tim Starling: Can you take a look? Wikipedia:Link rot/Cases/prola.aps.org - I'd rather fix semi-manually than coding complex rules. I can just make these changes, or if you want make adjustments on that page and I'll incorporate before uploading. -- GreenC 18:00, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Give me a day or so, I can fix your set B and C URLs. You want them in the same format as set A? -- Tim Starling (talk) 02:48, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, however you like. I guess ideally 2 columns, the original on left and new on right. Don't need page names. -- GreenC 06:35, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
GreenC: Done. I used vim regexes. I confirmed that all the destination links work. -- Tim Starling (talk) 02:03, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:Tim Starling, most are fixed I found another 8 that were missed the first run: Wikipedia:Link_rot/Cases/prola.aps.org#Set_D - could you regex these? -- GreenC 00:03, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done Tim Starling (talk) 11:03, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, it appears to be complete. Thanks for the conversion help. -- GreenC 16:20, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

avclub.com/tvclub

These links with /tvclub/ do not redirect to their new locations, such as this going here for The Gayle Tales. They cant be converted due to the new page ids. ~1500 pages with some already archived. Thank you. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:43, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can get there in 4 steps: step 1 -> step 2 -> step 3 -> step 4 ie. a ghost redirect with a redirect mapping in the last step. Will see how many it works. -- GreenC 01:34, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It required running slowly to avoid detection and a block by CloudFlare. I also developed a new technique for ghostarchive detection that makes it easier to setup and better results. -- GreenC 15:30, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

IABot DB

  • Checked and updated about 2,500 unique links

 Done -- GreenC 06:28, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

abc.net.au/misc

abc.net.au/*/txt/ and abc.net.au/*/transcripts/

Inspired by the above abc.net.au item, I've just recalled once again that all these old links are dead and need to be archived. They either come up with "Page not found" errors (like this) or "Page archived" errors like this one or that one, and InternetArchiveBot doesn't seem to realise they're dead lihnks. I was going to provide a list of linksearch texts to use, but it'd get very long very quickly and I'm not sure how much help it would be. Any assistance archiving these links would be appreciated. Graham87 (talk) 02:56, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

541 pages -- GreenC 03:54, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 541 pages and edited 370 pages. Added 5 {{dead link}}. Switched 47 |url-status=live to dead. Added 357 archive URLs (327 Wayback). Changed 12 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Checked and updated 625 unique links that propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 21:23, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

tcm.com

Please check the site integrity for https://www.tcm.com/, since some of the database pages like the one on Mad Max: Fury Road can redirect to a 404 error. 12,928 pages. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:07, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

Pass 1 (00001-05000): Checked 5,000 pages and edited 3,938 pages. Moved 4,928 links to a new URL: 54 normal redirects, 4,868 ruled mapped redirects, 6 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 578 soft-404s. Removed 9 {{dead link}}. Added 71 {{dead link}}. Switched 158 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 20 |url-status=live to dead. Added 93 archive URLs (81 Wayback). Changed 1,636 citation metadata.
Pass 2 (05001-10000): Checked 5,000 pages and edited 4,009 pages. Moved 5,009 links to a new URL: 45 normal redirects, 4,946 ruled mapped redirects, 18 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 499 soft-404s. Removed 15 {{dead link}}. Added 83 {{dead link}}. Switched 188 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 15 |url-status=live to dead. Added 90 archive URLs (89 Wayback). Changed 1,535 citation metadata.
Pass 3 (10001-13919): Checked 3,919 pages and edited 3,129 pages. Moved 3,851 links to a new URL: 58 normal redirects, 3,786 ruled mapped redirects, 7 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 396 soft-404s. Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 62 {{dead link}}. Switched 115 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 12 |url-status=live to dead. Added 86 archive URLs (79 Wayback). Changed 1,201 citation metadata.


IABot DB

  • Checked 25,400 unique links and updated 10,100 which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 21:56, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

army.mil

17,677 pages -- GreenC 01:23, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

Pass 1 (00001-03000): Checked 3,000 pages and edited 1,469 pages. Moved 594 links to a new URL: 81 normal redirects, 513 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 141 soft-404s. Removed 2 {{dead link}}. Added 80 {{dead link}}. Switched 69 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 141 |url-status=live to dead. Added 1,697 archive URLs (1,566 Wayback). Changed 115 citation metadata.
Pass 2 (03001-10000): Checked 7,000 pages and edited 3,392 pages. Moved 1,410 links to a new URL: 140 normal redirects, 1,270 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 287 soft-404s. Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 240 {{dead link}}. Switched 216 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 403 |url-status=live to dead. Added 4,175 archive URLs (3,786 Wayback). Changed 245 citation metadata.
Pass 3 (10001-17084): Checked 7,085 pages and edited 3,385 pages. Moved 1,421 links to a new URL: 212 normal redirects, 1,209 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 361 soft-404s. Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 232 {{dead link}}. Switched 171 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 406 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,770 archive URLs (3,091 Wayback). Changed 269 citation metadata.


IABot DB

Checked 27,500 unique links and updated 19,000 which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 15:24, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

20,198 -- GreenC 01:24, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

Pass 1 (00001-03000): Checked 3,000 pages and edited 1,202 pages. Moved 344 links to a new URL: 127 normal redirects, 217 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 499 soft-404s. Added 123 {{dead link}}. Switched 20 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 256 |url-status=live to dead. Added 1,688 archive URLs (1,511 Wayback). Changed 16 citation metadata.
Pass 2 (03001-10000): Checked 7,001 pages and edited 2,589 pages. Moved 744 links to a new URL: 199 normal redirects, 545 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 1,194 soft-404s. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 348 {{dead link}}. Switched 50 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 543 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,607 archive URLs (2,941 Wayback). Changed 25 citation metadata.
Pass 3 (10001-20044): Checked 10,046 pages and edited 3,635 pages. Moved 1,110 links to a new URL: 300 normal redirects, 810 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 1,935 soft-404s. Removed 2 {{dead link}}. Added 388 {{dead link}}. Switched 61 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 764 |url-status=live to dead. Added 5,013 archive URLs (4,453 Wayback). Changed 36 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Checked 39,865 unique links and updated 28,188 which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 16:20, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

enciklopedija.hr

Recently, Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography shut down their ASP engine for https://enciklopedija.hr, so we need the following changed

Natuknica.aspx?ID= → clanak/
natuknica.aspx?ID= → clanak/
Natuknica.aspx?id= → clanak/
natuknica.aspx?id= → clanak/

So

https://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?ID=37178
https://www.enciklopedija.hr/natuknica.aspx?ID=37178
https://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?id=37178
https://www.enciklopedija.hr/natuknica.aspx?id=37178

become

https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/37178

While at it, please also change http:// to https://

http://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?ID=37178
https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/37178

That should be 814 articles. Make sure the archived URLs are not changed, i. e. there's no slash before http, as in the search regex above. Ponor (talk) 11:38, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. -- GreenC 19:46, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

IABot DB

  • Checked 10,700 unique links and updated 10,642 which propagate to 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 18:36, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

bbfc.co.uk

Since this site has some dead links and redirects in citations, a link check would be necessary. 6,841 articles. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 23:07, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lord Sjones23: There are tons of unmapped redirects. Like this (dead) is now this (I think). The site admin/contractors never did the critical redirect mapping step after changing the content management system. The result is going to be lots of dead links with archive URLs. No traffic going to their site globally across 300 wikis that receive billions of clicks yearly. Want to drop them an email? Natasha Kaplinsky is the current President. -- GreenC 06:48, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 6,885 pages and edited 3,874 pages. Moved 43 links to a new URL: 43 normal redirects, Added 462 {{dead link}}. Switched 1 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 1,308 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,029 archive URLs (2,428 Wayback). Changed 333 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Checked about 15,000 URLs and updated 11,500 which propagate to 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 19:43, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

dieselpunks.org

The domain dieselpunks.org has been usurped and all links (33 articles) now redirect to some shady Indonesian online slot game website rivetnetworks.com. 85.76.128.167 (talk) 11:19, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. -- GreenC 17:42, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

eca.state.gov

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs is curtailed. The website is dead as of Friday April 11 2025. United States cultural exchange programs are dead? The Fulbright Scholarship is dead. -- GreenC 02:31, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Site back online, under new management. Will check it out for removed pages. Only 112 pages -- GreenC 19:47, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 112 pages and edited 62 pages. Moved 19 links to a new URL: 19 normal redirects, Resolved 12 soft-404s. Added 3 {{dead link}}. Switched 2 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 4 |url-status=live to dead. Added 24 archive URLs (19 Wayback). Changed 53 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Checked about 200 URLS and updated 96

 Done -- GreenC 22:55, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ngdc.noaa.gov

1,269 pages

Also here to notify about the impending death of https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/eq-intensity.shtml WFUM🔥🌪️ (talk) 05:18, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I believe all ngdc.noaa.gov links are now at ncei.noaa.gov, although not necessarily with the same URL afterwards. WFUM🔥🌪️ (talk) 16:24, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WFUM, if you come across any patterns that could be used; often websites have information in the old URL that can be used to create a new URL. -- GreenC 03:21, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There's a very weird situation going on, as the main NGDC site redirect to NCEI but some things (the one I can find is the tsunami runup database) are still located on NGDC (although they can still be found on NCEI just at diff urls) (https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/runup-more-info/6847 has one but https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/runup-more-info/6847 has nothing). Thus, I believe the 1,269 pages have many false positives, and the request potentially should be limited to the original link I proposed yesterday for now (with maybe even adding /struts at the end; this request was aimed to primarily cull the earthquake/tsunami database issue.) However, most cases of the tsunami database cites being used are search results from that database, which will be very difficult to map ([23] goes to [24]). All the variable names are different, because I believe they changed from a "nndc/struts" search system to the Hazel searching system. Same case for earthquakes (old: [25] (wow this is daunting) to new: [26]). I believe this will be a "if you see an old link fix it" type scenario unless you can somehow figure out a systematic approach. WFUM🔥🌪️ (talk) 04:27, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I did a standard check and replaced dead links with archive URLs, resolved redirects, and checked for soft404s. -- GreenC 03:22, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

IABot DB

  • Checked about 5,000 URLs and fixed 3,700 which propagate to 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 14:55, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Four RCCs

All cites of [27], [28], [29], and [30] need to be marked as dead. I believe there is no alternate location for this data. WFUM🔥🌪️ (talk) 20:10, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Because there are so few pages and links I went ahead and set the domains to permadead in the IABot database which should take care of most of it. -- GreenC 15:06, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

srcc.tamu.edu

0 pages

sercc.com

30 pages

hprcc.unl.edu

31 pages

mrcc.purdue.edu

5 pages


 Done -- GreenC 15:06, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

covid.gov

Site has been hijacked(?). Appears to be a propaganda outlet for covid conspiracy theories - probably should be usurped. -- GreenC 19:21, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2 pages on Enwiki. Need to scrub IABot. -- GreenC 19:22, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
yea Gladcape2013 (talk) 00:10, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is official the federal government has acquired a lab week as the issue on coronavirus Gladcape2013 (talk) 04:03, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
leak* Gladcape2013 (talk) 04:04, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • No pages

IABot DB

  • 24 links TBD

Similar to above changed to domain to permadead in the IABot database. Also added to the usurp list at WP:JUDI so the url-status is updated on enwiki. -- GreenC 15:09, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done

archive.fiba.com

This website now redirects to fiba.basketball but does not reirect to the new links.They can't be converted either due to the new strings (such as here to there for Madagascar). Some of these links have already been archived. ~3900 pages. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:35, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you request FIBA before? I recall generating a lot of archive.fiba.com links in 2022 and 2023, the last time they moved URLs (Special:Diff/1088207822/1088292106 and Special:Diff/1168750626/1173686109). Looks like they moved again, and again neglected to create redirect mappings, this time unrecoverable due to different domain, path and IDs. SEO is a thing. -- GreenC 15:44, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Another user made that request. I requested archives for archive.usab.com around the same time back in 2023. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:32, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
OK. Wish websites could redirect map. "The old refrain". -- GreenC 20:25, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This will take a while. The link density per page is high, Wayback API is running slow, some other issues specific to the domain. -- GreenC 04:07, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The bot has a decision tree which URLs move through as it tests for status and archive availability. The number of possible paths through the tree are countless. Ideally it's a short path but some domains don't behave well and it can take a long time to wind through and come to a final decision. I was able to tweak certain areas to speed it up where it kept going down a path that hit some lengthy sleep-retry cycles. -- GreenC 16:20, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

  • Checked 3,907 pages and edited 3,764 pages. Added 2,303 {{dead link}}. Switched 108 |url-status=live to dead. Added 14,565 archive URLs (13,536 Wayback). Changed 138 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Checked 23,600 unique URLs and update the same which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 01:55, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

moviegalleri.net

The site has lost all its pre-2025 archives. Once mainly a poster hosting website, it no longer does. The files using this as source need to be updated. Kailash29792 (talk) 16:16, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

243 pages

Enwiki

  • Checked 242 pages and edited 229 pages. Resolved 5 soft-404s. Added 29 {{dead link}}. Switched 49 |url-status=live to dead. Added 155 archive URLs (152 Wayback). Changed 21 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Checked about 150 unique URLs and updated propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 19:56, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

gamasutra.com

This website is now located at gamedeveloper.com. Unfortunately, old links dont redirect like here to there for Fire and Darkness. If ghost redirects can be found, that would be great. ~4700 articles.Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:15, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I made a redirect map:

           mapredirectTable[&"https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/{x}"] = 1
           mapredirectTable[&"https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/{x}"] = 1
           mapredirectTable[&"https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/{x}"] = 1
           mapredirectTable[&"https://www.gamedeveloper.com/audio/{x}"] = 1
           mapredirectTable[&"https://www.gamedeveloper.com/press-release/{x}"] = 1
           mapredirectTable[&"https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/{x}"] = 1
           mapredirectTable[&"https://www.gamedeveloper.com/production/{x}"] = 1
           mapredirectTable[&"https://www.gamedeveloper.com/marketing/{x}"] = 1
           mapredirectTable[&"https://www.gamedeveloper.com/console/{x}"] = 1

Each URL is tested against these possibilities. It works about half the time. Sometimes there are small changes for example A_view_from_the_directors_chair_of_Assassins_Creed_Origins.php becomes a-view-from-the-director-s-chair-of-i-assassin-s-creed-origins (change "Assassins" to "assasin-s"). Or Epic_is_suing_a_Fortnite_user_experience_tester_over_Chapter_2_leaks.php becomes epic-is-suing-a-i-fortnite-i-user-experience-tester-over-chapter-2-leaks. The extra "-i-" is because the title of the page contains italics (!) like you might do in HTML <i> but pseudo-encoded directly into the URL. The s rule can can be checked for by converting any word that ends in "s_" to "s-s-" (Noahs_Ark becomes noah-s-ark), but sometimes only some of the words have this. Similarly there are abbreviations like "_QR_" becomes "-q-r-", and rule is applied inconsistently, one URL had 3 abbreviations but only one of them had this rule (2^3 = 8 possibilities). Another problem is many of the old URLs have a truncated version of the article title, the new URLs have the full title. I know how to solve for this (inferred mapped redirects) and can give it a try. -- GreenC 16:04, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I found solutions for these problems. It's deploying every feature the bot has (all of this and this), and then some. Runs very slow but good results. -- GreenC 18:26, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redid core functions for 'inferred mapped redirects' and 'ruled inferred mapped redirects', which will be applicable for future domains. This was a great test case domain. -- GreenC 23:04, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enwiki

IABot DB

  • Checked and updated about 10,000 unique links which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 15:00, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

desimartini.com

Desimartini. No longer active. Kailash29792 (talk) 02:28, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

249 pages

Enwiki

  • Checked 260 pages and edited 251 pages. Added 20 {{dead link}}. Switched 99 |url-status=live to dead. Added 145 archive URLs (139 Wayback). Changed 49 citation metadata.

IABot DB

  • Checked 359 unique URLs and updated about the same.

 Done -- GreenC 22:20, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

tv-ark.org.uk

Usurped, main page redirects to advertisement for payday loans. 428 links according to Special:LinkSearch. 2A00:807:D3:B2CD:1D64:EE5:ECA4:CA80 (talk) 09:00, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ω Awaiting next run of WP:JUDI -- GreenC 15:10, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

edition.cnn.com

CNN seems to have quietly deleted (?) the edition.cnn.com domain, as attempting to go to any source that links it gives my browser an error saying it redirected too many times. One example: https://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/13/ng.01.html is still listed as live at Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide, while other CNN links such as https://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/17/wrestler.murder/index.html work fine. There may be a way to replace these links, but I haven't found it in my brief research. wizzito | say hello! 09:10, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did some more searching and found that actually, the more recent edition.cnn.com links are live, such as https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/29/news/donald-trump-golf-courses/index.html at Donald Trump. It seems to be the older links, from the 90s and 2000s, that are having this problem, but not all of them as well?
Seems to affect both transcripts and non-transcripts alike. What a clusterfuck. wizzito | say hello! 09:23, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It might be only edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/* and edition.cnn.com/US/* links that are repeatedly redirecting, based on these few links. wizzito | say hello! 09:27, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like some of the pages were removed (example) and now those pages have a configuration error (redirect loop). It's 600 pages limiting to TRANSCRIPTS and US at edition.cnn.com. But there are others like TECH (example). More likely 1661 pages. This assumes uppercase and doesn't include the possibility of /YYYY/KEYTERM like Bill Clinton URL. Maybe the best approach is check all edition.cnn.com to be safe (22,400 pages) and add some special code looking for the redirect loop, otherwise a normal check for dead links. -- GreenC 16:40, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea, but that's a lot of pages to check. If your bot can do it, though, that would be fine. wizzito | say hello! 18:24, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Discovery: I managed to find the missing Lady Gaga transcript at https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2010-06-01/segment/01. Looks like the most important parts of the link are the date (1006/01 = 2010-06-01), show (lkl = Larry King Live) and segment (01). We could remap the transcripts at least using this. wizzito | say hello! 18:39, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That date pattern was being used in the 1990s, ancient. I sifted through them a bit but couldn't find anything additional. -- GreenC 01:11, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A simple rule for edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS: Convert this to that then redirects here. -- GreenC 22:03, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

digital.olivesoftware.com

Nothing special here sadly, just need them all rescued or marked as dead. Only about 385 cases that I can find, with a lot already archived. Chew(V • T • E) 22:32, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

oflc.gov.au and classification.gov.au

Please check for any potential dead links and/or redirects on the OFLC website (which was shut down not that long ago) and the Australian Classification Board's website. 9 links for OFLC and 269 links for ACB. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:52, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

wycombewanderers.co.uk

similar to redimps.co.uk - domain no longer active (Wycombe Wanderers F.C. now use the domain wwfc.com) but marked as permalive by IABOT. used on 268 pages. more recent articles can seemingly be fixed by changing domain - [31] as used on 2020–21 Chelsea F.C. season is live at [32] but older ones use a different url format so cant be fixed like this even if still live. Microwave Anarchist (talk) 13:32, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

renatabernal.com

Usurped: used to be the website of an artist living in upstate NY, now has been taken over by what looks like a japanese porn company. 66.24.80.198 (talk) 17:42, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. -- GreenC 05:12, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

bhaskar.com

Any subdomains of bhaskar.com don't work, like this at Ajay Devgn. Some of the urls without subdomains work, like this at Tariq Umar Khan. But this doesn't work at Jaipur. I request that the subdomains be focused on first. ~3200 overall. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:04, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

finlex.fi

Per thread at top of this page. -- GreenC 01:51, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

portlandtribune.com

This website has suddenly removed most of their archives. For example, sports only go up to April 26th of this year. Hopefully this is just a temporary implement, but I request archived link just in case. ~1000. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:30, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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