Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests

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US agencies

90+ agencies identified as having web pages deleted during the Trump admin: https://asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata/infographics/deleted-website/

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

State government websites in the United States

Whether or not I am supposed to add this here, I don't know, if I am not supposed to put it here, let me know. But to go along with whoever listed US federal government websites on this page. I also think there needs to be something done about sources citing the governors office websites in several states since the 2024 election. This probably needs IABOT or something to go in and archive all of them. Those include the office of governor websites in:

More states might need to be added. The reason why I am requesting these states (and really any state if you think about it) websites be archived by IABOT is because I've been noticing a couple of dead links on governor.wv.gov that were created during Jim Justice's tenure that were deleted whenever Patrick Morrisey took office. I tried to summon InternetArchiveBot (IABOT) but had problems with Oauth.

In addition, ANY state government website that deals with a particular administration, there needs to be an archive link put up if its used in a citation. That goes for office of governor, their legislative sites, and anything else that may be deleted when the next administration is elected. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 02:46, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

User:Hurricane Clyde absolutely right. I started going through all 50 and completed 10: Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests/Archives/2025/June#Five_USA and Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests/Archives/2025/July#Five_USA_set_2. I gave up on CA it's too complicated. I pinned this thread so it is not archived and a reminder to keep going. All these government sites are very difficult: they have been in existence since the 1990s, have gone through continues changes and updates with new administrations and technology. They are fragmented with sub-domains under different departments and issues. But every one I did required a lot of updates they all need work. -- GreenC 21:43, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

ift.org.mx and cofece.mx

These Mexican government agencies will likely be dissolved this month, and I'm not sure what will happen to references and other materials used within. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 19:00, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

On hold pending dissolution. -- GreenC 04:21, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
It took place on October 17 for the former and presumably a similar time for the latter. Sites are still up for now (but with the replacing agency's logo). Unclear whether they will use it or another page for their own business. I suspect the domain rpc.ift.org.mx (full of PDFs containing broadcasting technical information) will be retained intact at some other domain at some point. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 06:32, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
If it's a new agency at the same domain.. what does this mean we should do in terms of archiving URLs? Options are do nothing. Or treat all URLs as dead and add archive URLs. -- GreenC 16:06, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
With the IFT and Cofece, the sites seem to be up as an archive. I am expecting the domain https://rpc.ift.org.mx/ —which contains most of our IFT citations—to move at some point, so put a pin in this thought for now. I will let you know when that happens. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 18:01, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
@GreenC: I finally have a use for this, and then I think this section can be archived. There are 728 links to rpc.ift.org.mx that need to switch to rpc.crt.gob.mx. It took them nearly a year to get this on a CRT subdomain, and they finally did it this morning. There are no changes to URLs otherwise. I did one manual edit from the BrieBot account to demonstrate, Special:Diff/1376194867. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:51, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

Iranian websites

Waiting for current world events to resolve. Unclear if the sites will go back online. -- GreenC 04:57, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

aftabnews.ir

Dead when I visit it. Around 200 links GrapesRock (talk) 10:08, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

mashreghnews.ir

Around 500 links. GrapesRock (talk) 10:52, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

farsnews.com

Both the "www." and the "english." version seem broken. Around 1K links.

Edit: looks like it's blocked outside of Iran. GrapesRock (talk) 11:07, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

nhl.com

Many nhl.com links are now 404ing. For example, each citation (and links to recaps) for 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs are now broken. DiophantineEquation (talk) 18:55, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

This domain (> 17,000 pages) has problems, not least there was a mass casualty event that eliminated 10s of thousands of URLs displaying a blank page. this (blank page) can now be found here. This rule works most of the time, but some not. In others the slug changed like this is now here (nesns vs. nesn-s) .. there is a method to find these searching the Wayback CDX records. -- GreenC 17:31, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

Batch 00000-03000: Checked 3,000 pages and edited 1,373 pages. Moved 8,697 links to a new URL: 3,169 normal redirects, 4,984 ruled mapped redirects, 544 ruled inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 4,228 soft-404s. Added 551 {{dead link}}. Switched 237 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 656 |url-status=live to dead. Added 2,984 archive URLs (2,984 Wayback).
Batch 03000-09000: Checked 6,000 pages and edited 2,810 pages. Moved 20,113 links to a new URL: 6,643 normal redirects, 12,270 ruled mapped redirects, 1,200 ruled inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 8,650 soft-404s. Added 1,200 {{dead link}}. Switched 605 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 849 |url-status=live to dead. Added 6,705 archive URLs (6,705 Wayback).
Batch 09000-17331: Checked 8,331 pages and edited 3,809 pages. Moved 25,320 links to a new URL: 8,431 normal redirects, 15,475 ruled mapped redirects, 1,414 ruled inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 12,175 soft-404s. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 1,934 {{dead link}}. Switched 613 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 1,070 |url-status=live to dead. Added 9,946 archive URLs (9,946 Wayback).
Pass 2 - 0001-1094: Checked 1,094 pages and edited 1,084 pages. Moved 4 links to a new URL: 4 ruled mapped redirects. Added 3,068 archive URLs (3,068 Wayback).
Redid a set after a code fix - added archive URLs previously marked with {{dead link}}
Pass 3 - 01-27: Checked 27 pages and edited 12 pages. Moved 107 links to a new URL: 106 ruled mapped redirects, 1 ruled inferred mapped redirects. Switched 83 |url-status=dead to live. Added 1 archive URLs (1 Wayback).
Redid some pages that missed a code update related to recap links (per Discussion below)

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Discussion

Is there any way to fix those recap links to 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs and other similar pages? DiophantineEquation (talk) 09:52, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
User:DiophantineEquation: I was able to identity 27 articles with unconverted recap links. Reran in Pass 3 above with 12 page edits (107 links). No explanation for this gap, possibly those 12 missed a code update during the early development cycle. Not all recap links can be converted. If you see anything else let me know. -- GreenC 16:49, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

 Done -- GreenC 23:28, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

nasonline.org

The entire National Academy of Sciences website has been reorganized. We found that the PDF links previously on http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs are hosted on https://www.nasonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ (mostly, though some are in other wp-content folders). We haven't found the other new locations yet. Ping @Jethro8 @syntaxTerror. Thanks, Thanks, Framawiki (please notify me when you reply) 08:06, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

We could use some help reaching out to their webmaster.
Other urls aren't easily corrected, for instance:
Member pages:
Old urls:
  • http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20004883.html
  • http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/56393.html
New urls:
  • https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/haim-brezis-a6fxxh/
  • https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/ruth-s-defries-xygotf/
News items:
Old url:
  • http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2021-nas-election.html
New url:
  • https://www.nasonline.org/news/national-academy-of-sciences-elects-new-members-including-a-record-number-of-women-and-international-members/
Jethro8 (talk) 08:16, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

The URLs are so divergent, there is not enough information to create conversion rules. It would either require a map provided by NAS, or even better, NAS creates HTTP/S redirects which is a standard practice. The backstop is convert to Wayback archives. -- GreenC 03:41, 26 July 2026 (UTC)

Good news. The trailing slug ("/haim-brezis-a6fxxh") is optional: https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/haim-brezis .. thus any old "/member-directory/" path can be inferred based on name .. they account for about 40%. The /news path is not recoverable but it only accounts for about 15%. The /biographical-memoirs like this is now here (new path, same filename). The /member-directory like this is now here (need inference check with first-last and first-middle-last). -- GreenC 22:29, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Hello, I managed to replace the majority of http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members urls on frwiki using the index provided by the sitemap files and a distance comparaison script.
If somebody wants to run the same here on enwiki, you can download all "directory-entry-*" sitemaps in a folder, and run the following phab:P95321. The only error I identified is for George F. Gao . Thanks, Framawiki (please notify me when you reply) 09:09, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Pages prefixed by http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/ was moved to the same destination, so the same script is working too for them. Thanks, Framawiki (please notify me when you reply) 14:06, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
User:Framawiki: Thank you for the sitemap link that is helpful. I didn't use the Python script because it does not have features built into my bot framework. Not using fuzzy matching it's risky for false positives and false negatives. Using various deterministic techniques. The WaybackMachine archive of the old link can sometimes contain useful information for building an inference table of URLs to try, as does the Wikipedia article, and citation. Found NAS is blocking with 403 CloudFlare challenge. Was able to get through with headless browser, although it's quite slow and does not always work for unknown reason, need wait and retry later (possibly rate limiting time window). -- GreenC 18:25, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
BTW I now have a table of the conversions for basically all URLs all wikis. Hopefully in the future I can apply this to other wikis (I18N limits), but for now it is available to anyone who would like a copy. -- GreenC 15:46, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Hello @GreenC, good job! I’d be interested in a mapping table to correct the links on the French wiki, particularly those that don’t relate to biography pages (such as the News section). If you still have it, could you send it to me, in any format you prefer? my email is framawiki@tools.wmflabs.org, and I also have botflag on wikidata if needed. Thanks, Framawiki (please notify me when you reply) 15:51, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
You are welcome, User:Framawiki. The map: Wikipedia:Link rot/Cases/nasonline.org. The News links are mostly "Added 975 archive URLs" in the stats below, I could not find live pages on the website they might convert to. -- GreenC 20:51, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

4,493 pages

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 15:46, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

roman-emperors.org

The old URLs roman-emperors.org and www.roman-emperors.org of online encyclopedia De Imperatoribus Romanis have been usurped and should be replaced with the current roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu. I also link a related discussion opened 26 June 2026 at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome#Hijacked source, content relocated - but is it RS?. If you need more info, please kindly ping me. Thank you, Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 14:50, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 17:31, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

MySwar

Please change from myswar.com or myswar.in since the present domain link is https://myswar.co. Kailash29792 (talk) 05:07, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Except for one page (Special:Diff/1361088246/1367054529), it was already converted.

 Not done -- GreenC 17:53, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

amws.com.au

It has been usurped. Jerod Lycett (talk) 00:12, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

 Done per WP:JUDI batch #34 -- GreenC 14:20, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

iffhs.com

IFHSS (https://iffhs.com) has updated its website structure, affecting both the visual layout and the URL links.
Consequently, many references need to be updated, and the question is whether a bot can handle these updates or if everything must be changed manually, e.g. on IFFHS World's Best Player for the ref. with "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST MAN PLAYER OF THE DECADE 2011-2020" as title:

The number at the end (in this case, "954") in the old url-structure is retained in the same way for all URLs in the new structure; the only difference is that a title now precedes it. Miria~01 (talk) 08:33, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

The site requires the ID ("954") but the slug string is optional: https://iffhs.com/en/news/zzz-954 .. "zzz" can be anything eg. https://iffhs.com/en/news/this-slug-is-nonsense-954 .. once you have the page the "real" slug can be extracted to make: https://iffhs.com/en/news/iffhs-best-man-player-world-of-the-decade-2011-2020-954 .. other issues with path length limit of 71 characters and various edge case rules.

Enwiki

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 Done -- GreenC 02:38, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

bac-lac.gc.ca/rpm

bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/

These links to RPM music charts have recently been changed. Per Template talk:Single chart, I think all of these links will need archives. This is because the new URLs have an ID number added to them and is not consistent. ~5k. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:37, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 02:57, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

statsnz.maps.arcgis.com/webappviewer

Please update all references for https://statsnz.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6f49867abe464f86ac7526552fe19787 to https://www.stats.govt.nz/geographic-boundary-viewer/ the app for the old link is superceded by a new app and is referenced on hundreds of pages ~2026-40810-66 (talk) 03:34, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 03:36, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

magic.wizards.com

I'm not sure if all links with the en/articles/archive & en/content path are dead or if there are other dead paths in the Magic part of the Wizards of the Coast website. wizards.com/Magic/Magazine was previously addressed. Sariel Xilo (talk) 18:14, 23 July 2026 (UTC) Update: found one that is a redirect instead of a 404. Sariel Xilo (talk) 18:40, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 04:22, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

barbadosadvocate.com

Former national newspaper of the eponymous Caribbean island (1895-2023), which ceased operations amid ownership disputes and salary issues. Nowadays represented by archive feeds at FB/IG, as well as the University of Florida's incomplete dLOC collection. (Paging @CaribDigita/WP:BARBADOS...) --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 22:14, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Making two passes: Pass 1 adds archive URLs where available. For any that have no archives, Pass 2 will add links to the PDFs at dloc.com, if available (limited to 2013-2023). Any that fail Pass 1 and 2 will be in the unresolved table below. -- GreenC 20:15, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

Pass 1: Checked 226 pages and edited 108 pages. Added 22 {{dead link}}. Switched 12 |url-status=live to dead. Added 106 archive URLs (106 Wayback).
Pass 2: Checked 12 pages and edited 12 pages. Moved 14 links to a new URL: 14 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 11 {{dead link}}. Added 3 {{dead link}}. Switched 2 |url-status=dead to live.

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 22:49, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Unresolved

34 have no archive URL and no alternative site:

A few are malformed syntax errors that probably have archive URLs if corrected:

...more=local$NewsID=8718&NewsID=9530     ← $ instead of &
...more=loca..&NewsID=24962               ← "loca.."
...more=letters=5807&NewsID=16786         ← doubled =
...NewsID=41466/                          ← trailing slash

olis.onyx.pl

This website for the Poland charts is broken. Although there's a different website, it can't be converted over. This is because there are no URLs for specific chart dates. Therefore, I request archives instead. Thank you! ~700. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:31, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Seems like it was a temporary issue. I wouldn't mind checking it anyways just in case it goes down again. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 09:47, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
It looks like OLIS is misconfigured for secure connections. Any link beginning https:// returns a "403 Forbidden" error, while the identical link beginning http:// loads the page normally. The fix is to change https:// to http:// until they get https working. -- GreenC 04:52, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

 Done -- GreenC 06:04, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

theahl.com

this moved here DiophantineEquation (talk) 08:57, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

1,404 pages

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 22:48, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

thehockeynews.com

this moved to here DiophantineEquation (talk) 09:06, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

2,551 pages

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 03:27, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

bestsellery.zpav.pl

This other Polish chart seems to be broken since 2025. I don't think this can be easily converted to the Olis site like above. Therefore, I request archives. ~990. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:34, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 21:48, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

bookthevote.org

Usurped by online gambling. EatingCarBatteries (contribs | talk) 06:35, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

 Done per WP:JUDI batch #34 -- GreenC 14:20, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

marshallnewsmessenger.com

this moved to here

this moved to here

DiophantineEquation (talk) 08:50, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

66 pages

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 23:27, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

thecitizen.co.tz

this moved to here

this moved to here

DiophantineEquation (talk) 09:49, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

1,004 pages

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 06:05, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

findarticles.com

Lots of broken links to this website. Found that if you change this to that, there's an archived copy here for Critical Masses. Most of the links do not need this change. ~12k Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:38, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

12,523 pages

This will be done in multiple passes. Issues include: domain has been usurped. Large number of archive.today links that need conversion to Wayback. Broken links can be saved by cleaning up the URLs (per MrLinkinPark333 suggestion above). I'll list the passes below and what was done in each. -- GreenC 16:07, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

History

FindArticles was est. in 2000 and was one of the foundational sources for early Wikipedia ca. 2001-2007. It contained millions of online versions of print magazine and newspaper articles. After 2007, the company was sold, and in July 2012 it was in-effect a dead website. In 2025 the domain was sold for its SEO value, and today the new owners serve AI slop with crypto and gambling advertising. Only about one-third of the links on enwiki had archive URLs. This project found more and brings it up to two-thirds. The remaining third have dead link tags. These links are deleted in Pass F: it is a usurped site and no archives exist.

Enwiki

Pass A Checked 455 pages and edited 372 pages. Made live 398 URLs. Removed 1 {{dead link}}.
Removed about 80% of archive.today links. Removal only, Wayback replacements to be added in Pass D2
Pass B: Backend process - no edits
Pass C - Part 1: Checked 1,420 pages and edited 1,420 pages. Moved 1,780 links to a new URL: 1,780 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 2 soft-404s. Removed 84 {{dead link}}. Added 2 archive URLs (2 Wayback).
Rewrite the origin URL to match an available Wayback URL (to be added in Pass D2) for those citations currently without a Wayback URL.
Pass C - Part 2: Checked 358 pages and edited 357 pages. Moved 425 links to a new URL: 425 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 1 soft-404s. Removed 63 {{dead link}}.
Continuation of C1
Pass D - Part 1: Checked 244 pages and edited 243 pages. Added 335 {{dead link}}.
Prep for Pass E special cases
Pass D - Part 2: Checked 8,437 pages and edited 8,294 pages. Added 4,587 {{dead link}}. Added 4,925 archive URLs (4,925 Wayback).
Add/replace Wayback URLs and dead link tags
Pass E: Checked 11,742 pages and edited 7,787 pages. Switched 9,240 to |url-status=usurped or {{usurped}}. Added 185 archive URLs (185 Wayback).
Convert to usurped per WP:USURPURL
Pass F: Checked 3,950 pages and updated 3,929. Modified 4,730 citations
Change citation type, or remove links, or remove citation - where no archive is available - per WP:USURPURL.
Pass G: Checked 1,375 pages and updated 1,311. Modified 1,549 citations
Remove or replace bad archive URLs
Pass H: Checked 11,742 pages and updated 5,765. Modified 6,419 citations
Cleanup: conversion of {{usurped}} to CS1|2; strip findarticles spam from titles; add missing |title=; add |volume= and |number=

IABot DB

 Done. Total is now 8,190 reflecting about a 1/3rd inventory reduction due to usurped links without working archives. -- GreenC 02:16, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

tribuneindia.com

this moved to here

DiophantineEquation (talk) 07:43, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

9,852 pages

Enwiki

Batch 0001-3000: Checked 3,000 pages and edited 1,465 pages. Moved 1,796 links to a new URL: 13 normal redirects, 1,776 ruled mapped redirects, 7 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 18 soft-404s. Removed 26 {{dead link}}. Added 36 {{dead link}}. Switched 230 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 53 |url-status=live to dead. Added 150 archive URLs (150 Wayback).
Batch 3001-9852: Checked 6,852 pages and edited 3,424 pages. Moved 4,211 links to a new URL: 17 normal redirects, 4,173 ruled mapped redirects, 21 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 18 soft-404s. Removed 48 {{dead link}}. Added 98 {{dead link}}. Switched 445 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 108 |url-status=live to dead. Added 316 archive URLs (316 Wayback).

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 23:45, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

cleo.com.sg

cleo.com.sg seems to have been usurped (redirected) to cleo.asia, for example: Archived version from 2019, and current version.

"cleo.asia" has no about page, no editor, and just does not look like what Cleo (magazine) was. It seems to indiscriminately make pages like life and looks to be AI-generated. Hypnoticreflection (talk) 10:44, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

 Done per WP:JUDI batch #34 -- GreenC 14:20, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

palmbeachpost.com

this moved to here

DiophantineEquation (talk) 21:21, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

2,144 pages

Enwiki

Batch 0001-1000: Checked 1,000 pages and edited 832 pages. Moved 31 links to a new URL: 31 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 95 {{dead link}}. Switched 45 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 117 |url-status=live to dead. Added 890 archive URLs (890 Wayback).
Batch 1001-2146: Checked 1,146 pages and edited 947 pages. Moved 29 links to a new URL: 29 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 83 {{dead link}}. Switched 37 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 141 |url-status=live to dead. Added 966 archive URLs (966 Wayback).

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 05:42, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

It is a bug (forgot a cfg setting). 150 articles. Tags are removed. -- GreenC 05:30, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

psv.nl

this moved to here which then moved to here

DiophantineEquation (talk) 21:39, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

479 pages

Can't move English to Dutch. But could add archive URLs preserving the old English. -- GreenC 05:49, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 14:40, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

tsingapore.com

The New York Times Style Magazine: Singapore, aka T Singapore, used to have a domain here but got usurped by an unaffiliated person with a completely different web design with an editorial team of one, that is clearly not the legitimate T Singapore, as seen from their home page Hypnoticreflection (talk) 14:08, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

 Done per WP:JUDI batch #34 -- GreenC 14:20, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

huskers.com

this moved here and this moved here DiophantineEquation (talk) 06:34, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

1,067 pages

Enwiki

IABot Bot

 Done -- GreenC 07:54, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

rehydrate.org

Link 16 http://rehydrate.org/resources/suppliers.htm from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_rehydration_therapy redirects to a casino, even with https ~2026-43596-79 (talk) 17:37, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

 Done per WP:JUDI batch #34 -- GreenC 14:20, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

randa.org

Found this broken link at 2017 Women's British Open. Some of the links work, like this one, at Stroke play. I think it'd be best to check all. ~170. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:56, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 19:20, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

pen.org/page.php

Reference #9 at Mark Doty is a bare broken link. Although there is a new URL here, the content is different. I think archives would be the better solution. Some of these already have archives, like at Michael Scammell. ~80. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:07, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

Confirming /page.php is a dead path and while replacement pages exist, the content has drifted, better to pin with an archive. -- GreenC 19:24, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 19:41, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

tribuneonlineng.com

This site has a mixture of links that can be changed to new URLs and those that are broken.

I think a full check should be done. ~2k. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:55, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 01:04, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

outlookindia.com

This link at List of Yuva Puraskar winners for Meitei redirects to the main page. I did not find a new URL. Alternatively, this broken link at is now here for Narendra Modi.

If ghost redirects can be found to convert these into new URLs, that would be great. However, please note that one of the redirects for Modi's article in IA goes to Outlook India's magazine. This URL doesn't work in the current website. The working URL is instead the society one linked above. ~6k. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:34, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

Batch 0001-3000: Checked 3,000 pages and edited 2,025 pages. Moved 1,142 links to a new URL: 590 normal redirects, 30 ruled mapped redirects, 522 inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 2,592 soft-404s. Added 141 {{dead link}}. Switched 67 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 237 |url-status=live to dead. Added 940 archive URLs (940 Wayback).
Batch 3001-6942: Checked 3,944 pages and edited 2,628 pages. Moved 1,511 links to a new URL: 829 normal redirects, 32 ruled mapped redirects, 650 inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 4,300 soft-404s. Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 272 {{dead link}}. Switched 108 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 310 |url-status=live to dead. Added 1,278 archive URLs (1,278 Wayback).

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 08:02, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

latinbeatmagazine.com

This website redirects to a gambling site. Luckily, there's only 3 results. I'd like to request this to be added to the JUDI list. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:26, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

 Done per WP:JUDI batch #34 -- GreenC 14:20, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

irishcharts.ie

Although this redirects, the certifications are no longer available. Therefore, I would like to request archives only. ~2k. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:30, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

Hi MrLinkinPark333, not sure how to process. Comparing for example archive with live. The content looks the same but reformatted. More significantly, 1,813 pages are the same URL (archive) which was the search landing page. The new site has no search landing page but the search button is available at https://www.irma.ie/irish-charts/ .. but this is the URL you say has no certifications (not sure what that means) and to archive it.. but if archived the search button would not work. -- GreenC 04:39, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
Per Template:Certification Table Entry, Irishcharts were used for certifications. This information is missing at irma. Irish charts ended in 2013 while first irma chart started in 2014. Therefore, these urls can't be converted over. I mentioned this just in case you noticed redirects to a different website. Template talk:Certification Table Entry also mentioned that there's archived copies of the certifications.MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 06:32, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
For example given this citation from Zara Larsson, how should it look?
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement |title=The Irish Charts – All there is to know |publisher=IRMA |access-date=20 January 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105231849/http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement |archive-date=5 January 2010}} Note: Search for "Never Forget You" in the "Search by Song Title" bar. The first two results are for the correct song.</ref>
The /search/placement URLs make up the majority of citations (78%) -- GreenC 15:55, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
I forgot that search url used to be part ofTemplate:single chart. That's only for peak positions of songs. The certifications are linked here. Unless the search result has a specific artist and/or song, I think /search/placement would need to be tagged as broken unfortunately. I tried searching within the archived page but it doesn't work. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:38, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
It is still possible to search the live site. If the archived version was used, the search would be broken. Recommend moving /search/placement to here that has the working search button on the live site. For the certifications.. sorry I still don't understand. Can you edit an article by hand that demonstrates what should be done and I can look at the diff? -- GreenC 02:36, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
Update: found this works, to get to the search menu. -- GreenC 02:42, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
For the ones under /awards/, the urls should be under type of certification (gold, platinum or multi platinum) and last two digits of the year. For example She Wolf (album) is gold 09 in the article, which is here.
Unfortunately, some of the links are missing the years in the above search. I think it'd be easier to extract a list of the ones that are missing information first. Otherwise, I could update the links before archived links are added. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 04:30, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
Hi. I see that this bot/script is starting to replace links to the IRMA search page. Personally I think the script/job is incomplete. Or, at the very least, is missing an opportunity.
In this change, for example, the bot/script replaced a parameter-based link (to the "old" search page) with a generic link (to the "new" search page). "Hacking off" the parameters in the process.
If we retain the parameters then the "new" search page works broadly as before. Returning results that actually support the text they sit alongside.... Guliolopez (talk) 09:56, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
Guliolopez: I saw this problem also, last night, but needed to go to sleep before I could repair it. It is a bug, not intentional. I see you have been working hard to manually repair. I will take care of whatever you have not already fixed, sorry about that. It was caused by a missing "$" character. -- GreenC 16:12, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
Edited 263 pages. Moved 297 links to a new URL: 297 ruled mapped redirects. -- GreenC 22:47, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Certifications

The full breakdown of the 257 irishcharts.ie/awards/ citations in the current inventory (2,202 articles). "Archived" = a capture exists in the Wayback Machine, confirmed from a CDX dump of the whole /awards/ path.

PageCitationsArchived?Notes
gold06.htm11Yes
gold07.htm14Yes
gold08.htm8Yes
gold09.htm9Yes
gold10.htm9Yes
gold11.htm7Yes
gold12.htm8Yes
gold13.htm6Yes
platinum06.htm13Yes
platinum07.htm10Yes2 of these are spelled Platinum07.htm; harmless, both cases resolve to the same capture
platinum08.htm10Yes
platinum09.htm8Yes
platinum10.htm6Yes
platinum11.htm4Yes
platinum12.htm7Yes
platinum13.htm1Yes
multi_platinum06.htm14Yes
multi_platinum07.htm8Yes
multi_platinum08.htm13Yes
multi_platinum09.htm11Yes
multi_platinum10.htm17Yes
multi_platinum11.htm10Yes
multi_platinum12.htm5Yes
multi_platinum13.htm4Yes
gold.htm12YesNo year in URL. Not a problem – see below
platinum.htm8YesNo year in URL. Not a problem – see below
multi_platinum.htm14YesNo year in URL. Not a problem – see below
index.htm8YesThe awards index, not a certification page for any one record
gold17.htm2NoBroken. The site ended in 2013, so there was never a 2017 page. One citation each at Liam Gallagher discography and Louisa Johnson
gold07.htmt1NoTypo for gold07.htm, at Van Morrison discography

On the year-less URLs. I looked into whether gold.htm / platinum.htm / multi_platinum.htm need rewriting to <type><YY>.htm, and they don't – the rewrite would actually break them:

So no derivation is needed and no articles need updating first: the page each citation already points at is the page holding the certification. They just need an archive link, which the bot will add.

The two red rows are the only ones needing manual work. gold17.htm and gold07.htmt have no archive because no such page ever existed, so the bot can only tag them. Five citations across three articles.-- GreenC 20:17, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

@GreenC: Fixed Van Morrison, so that one can be archived. I might have to manually remove Liam Gallagher and Louisa Johnson if they fail verification. I only saw one citation to gold17 in Johnson, not 3. Search result only shows 2. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:03, 24 August 2026 (UTC)
There was a flaw in the method used to generate the above table. It is corrected. -- GreenC 00:56, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Bot results

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IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 02:29, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

A bit late here, but there's some way to insert these archived links in the Ireland certification templates? Since Muhandes has passed away, I think there's no anyone to update these things. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 18:11, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Baltimore Sun

There are a lot of broken links here for the entire website. I'll have to break this up into multiple sub-requests because of the rules below. The current URL format is /year/month/day/name-of-article/. Any with the date format or articles.baltimoresun.com can be skipped. Articles.baltimoresun.com were checked in 2024. Also, there are archive dot today urls as well.

I'll make multiple passes based on actions performed (similar to findarticles.com but hopefully fewer passes). Baltimore Sun fortunately has a sitemap, an API, and relevant header data, all of which are pretty good. I'll build on the rules found below + these other datasets. The problems that might arise are paywalls and rate limiting. -- GreenC 19:34, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

baltimoresun.com/news/

Some urls have multiple of these rules together. ~4k.

baltimoresun.com/sports/

The same rules apply to sports articles, with some exceptions:

~1k.

~7k. However, I'm not sure if there are articles that have both ones to check and skip in the same page. I might have missed some from the search results.

Overall, there's 13k. I want to filter out the urls with /year/month/day/ and articles.baltimore.sun. If you see patterns of URLs that don't work and not in these sections, please let me know. I'll see if I can find more rules for these. Thank you very much! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:41, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

MrLinkinPark333: Wikipedia:Link rot/Cases/baltimoresun.com - random sample of links unable to find on the live site. -- GreenC 05:59, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
No luck converting some of those that I tested. By the way, the prince george's link in the case above is a Google groups link for some reason. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 06:16, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
That was a conversion of an arquivo.pt archive link to Wayback that showed up in the logs (unrelated to balt sun), but neither work, fixed in the article. -- GreenC 16:18, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

baltimoresun.com

Enwiki

Pass A: Checked 8,502 pages and edited 8,013 pages. Moved 15,209 links to a new URL: 8,855 normal redirects, 5,428 ruled mapped redirects, 765 inferred mapped redirects, 161 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 308 soft-404s. Removed 62 {{dead link}}. Added 328 {{dead link}}. Switched 1,738 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 178 |url-status=live to dead. Added 721 archive URLs (721 Wayback).
There was about a 88% conversion rate to the new URL format. It deployed normal redirects, ruled redirects (per rules found by MrLinkinPark), inferred redirects (via extrapolating the |title= field and fuzzy matching), and ghost redirects. It was supported by BaltSun API data. The ones it missed appear to no longer exist on the live website.
Pass B: Edited 269 pages. Made live 82 URLs. Added 231 archive URLs (231 Wayback).
Remove/replace archive.today - removed 82 (primary link is live) and replaced 231. Another 70 left in-place because no wayback exist and primary link is dead.

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 04:11, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

repositoriodigitalonemi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch?target=http%3A%2F%2Frepositoriodigitalonemi.cl%2F seems to have expired, and partially hijacked (WP:JUDI?) can it be archived. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 19:12, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

 Done per WP:JUDI batch #34 -- GreenC 14:20, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

highbeam.com

This service was related to findarticles.com completed above. It is an old site long dead, popular in the early days of Wikipedia, has sporadic Wayback coverage, large footprint, archive.today links, and now usurped. This last point will require complete removal of links when no Wayback exists to shield it from view (Pass B). -- GreenC 03:35, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

16,434 pages

Enwiki

PassA: Checked 16,122 pages and edited 15,256 pages. Converted 4,905 free-form references to CS1. Changed 24,258 citation metadata. Switched 19,681 to |url-status=usurped.
Convert free-form to structured. Add |url-status=usurped. Add/update |title=, |date=, |work=, |location=, |url-access=, |via=
PassB: Checked 1,465 pages and edited 1,440. Removed 1,520 usurped urls that had no archive. Deleted 154 square-link citations. Tagged 282 citations {{full citation needed}}. Replaced 162 citations that identified no source with {{citation needed}}.
PassC: Checked 37 pages and edited 37 pages. Added 1 {{dead link}}. Switched 1 |url-status=live to dead. Added 41 archive URLs (41 Wayback).
Convert archive.today to wayback

 Done -- GreenC 04:13, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

credoreference.com

This website exsited until it was bought by Infobase in 2018 per Credo Reference. Although urls redirect, it leads to infobase's login page with the user's ip address. I don't have an infobase account and cannot verify the accuracy. I believe the best solution is to treat the website as permadead. ~600 Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 10:11, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

History: Credo Reference is a subscription aggregator of reference works - encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical registers. The real source is Columbia University Press, Routledge, McFarland, Chambers, SAGE, Grey House and a few hundred others. Credo was acquired by Infobase (2018) and every anonymous request now terminates at an Infobase login.
Status: The quality of archives is very bad: exampleexample. When not logged in they scrambled it with lorem ipsilon. Many like this falsely enter a redirect maze. This form works, but not common. About 80% of archives are unusable.
Solution: If a complete archive exists (preexisting on wiki, or new) use that. About 20%. For everything else, extract metadata from the soft-404 archive page if possible (author, work, date, page, etc). Nuke existing archives and urls, and make the citation cite book or encyclopedia, with no url and no archive, but enriched with better metadata. This clears out junk and frees up the citation for new links pointing elsewhere.
-- GreenC 23:30, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

kamadenu.in

kamadenu.in (kamadenu.in) is a dead link. --Kailash29792 (talk) 13:36, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 18:03, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

speedtv.com

Speed TV used to be a channel in a 2000s before fox sports 1 took over in the 2010s. Removing subdomains like here redirects to home page of Fox sports 1. Unfortnately, the articles I checked are not there. Therefore, I think this website needs to be marked as fully broken. ~500 Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 09:43, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 19:28, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

notebookreview.com

notebookreview.com used to provide news and reviews of laptops, along with having a community forum. Their parent company seems to have been sold, and eventually everything was shut down in 2022. The domain now redirects to informatechtarget.com/technologyguide/ which hosts an apology for the forum closure.

All use of notebookreview.com in citations should thus be updated with archive URLs and marked either dead or perhaps usurped. DiscreetParrot (talk) 19:09, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

 Done Dealt with it all manually. 80 pages; about 120 links. Some already had archives set so just needed status adjusting. DiscreetParrot (talk) 21:11, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

boxrec.com

Some links have been moved to new URLs while others are broken. However, I got sent to the login page after my 5th link click. Luckily, the search bar still works after the login page comes up. I made an account to search through the site and see what needs to be fixed here on Wikipedia. Not sure if the bot will run into the same issue. I also saw an archive today link at James Broad.

The URLs follow the format boxrec.com/en/foldername/idnumber => Folder names and id numbers need to be extracted. Sometimes the folder names need to be changed or an additional id number is needed. Here are the changes:

No extension (not PHP)

person/number


PHP links

list_bouts.php

Others

If you spot other links that don't work, outside of ratings and titles, please let me know. I'll see if I can fix them as well. ~5k for the entire website but ~2k after filtering it out. Thank you very much! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:00, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

MrLinkinPark333, I've tried to get past site defenses. As you noted it rate limits after only a few pages, and if you go too fast they automatically delete your account and you can't even get to the home page, it redirects to a login page. The site hits back! Two options: contact them for temporary access to fix Wikipedia links. Or make "blind moves", where links are moved blindly with no verification. This will create some percentage of bad links. -- GreenC 04:36, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
If you could contact them first, that might be an easier fix. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 07:39, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
I can try, but in all the years doing this it has never worked. Thought of another idea. When adding the new URL, at the same time add a new archive-url for the old URL (snapshots predating 2026 are clear). It mitigates errors, users can still find the old URL archive. About 65% have an archive available. In the mean time, if the sysadmins at boxrec reply, I can redo the domain later. -- GreenC 16:02, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 15:15, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

lgu.org

Ladies' Golf Union became part of The R&A during 2017. Unfortunately, the articles redirect to a 404 page at The R&A. Therefore, this website needs to be marked as permanently broken. Good news is that there's only 30 articles. Some of these already have IA URLs. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:02, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 16:22, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

yp.scmp.com to youngpostclub.com/yp

https://yp.scmp.com/entertainment/music/article/111259/singaporean-singer-songwriter-jasmine-sokko-wants-you-judge-her (archive)

moved to

https://www.youngpostclub.com/yp/discover/entertainment/music/article/3059002/singaporean-singer-songwriter-jasmine-sokko-wants

i'm not really sure how to recover the new ID, but maybe u have an idea? if its not possible, no big deal. Hypnoticreflection (talk) 09:37, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Tried various methods but no data exists to determine the digit-slug (eg. "3059002"). Converting to archives. -- GreenC 17:56, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 17:56, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

pandd.demon.nl

This moved to This I would like to request replacing similar links. Thank you! PklingensNL (talk) 17:28, 6 September 2026 (UTC) (Moved it to the end...thanks MrLinkinPark333!)

PklingensNL: Was it done? 0 pages. -- GreenC 18:04, 9 September 2026 (UTC)
It is on the dutch wikipedia pages...20 pages PklingensNL (talk) 20:23, 9 September 2026 (UTC)
Ah, can only do English wiki. I'm working on internationalizing the bot but it's a big project, not sure when it will be ready. This looks like an easy job though, either manually or with AWB search/replace. -- GreenC 23:47, 9 September 2026 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply and all your efforts. 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained' I guess.
Good luck on the internationalizing! I will try and give AWB search/replace maybe a go (and/or maybe end up doing it manually) PklingensNL (talk) 20:03, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

christies.com

Christie's changed their url structure at some point. All the old urls with "christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx" have a parameter "intObjectID=", which is a number. That parameter became part of the url under the new structure. As an example "https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5685694" becomes "https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5685694". "intObjectID=" isn't always the only parameter or the first one. About 630 articles are effected. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 19:46, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

OK good rule. Whole domain eg. redirects (no longer .aspx). 3,120 pages. -- GreenC 18:10, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

Batch 0001-1000: Checked 1,000 pages and edited 622 pages. Moved 855 links to a new URL: 110 normal redirects, 745 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 103 soft-404s. Added 9 {{dead link}}. Switched 11 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 6 |url-status=live to dead. Added 69 archive URLs (69 Wayback).
Batch 0001-3302: Checked 2,301 pages and edited 1,484 pages. Moved 1,998 links to a new URL: 400 normal redirects, 1,598 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 455 soft-404s. Added 15 {{dead link}}. Switched 24 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 20 |url-status=live to dead. Added 233 archive URLs (233 Wayback).

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 23:50, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks GreenC. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 11:41, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

bet.com

BET Digital News Wipeout - 2,488 pages. Previous URLREQ: July 2024 -- GreenC 18:30, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 00:04, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

worldjunior2016.com

usurped by a gambling ad. Шахматист2025 (talk) 15:02, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Same story with worldjunior2015.com, worldjunior2017.com. Шахматист2025 (talk) 21:24, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch -- GreenC 00:09, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

femalemag.com.sg

These links automatically redirect to new URLS at fzine.com. There's only 22 articles to check. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:11, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 00:25, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

stagedoordish.com

These links don't work anymore. They now point to a web host. I'm not sure if this is classed as usurped, but it's not JUDI.

12 articles. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:16, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

Will treat dead until evident usurped. -- GreenC 00:33, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot API

 Done -- GreenC 00:44, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

thehindu.com

Moved from Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request

Found this broken link at Cyanobacteria. The website was previously checked in 2021. Looking around, I found the following:

Broken

Working

~52k for all of them, but I think it'd be better to filter out the .ece ones with folder names. Not sure how to filter the working ones out. If you want to do all of them, I suggest doing the broken ones first. Thank you very much! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:52, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

MrLinkinPark333, I'm guessing you meant to put this at somewhere like WP:URLREQ? Extraordinary Writ (talk) 01:32, 18 September 2026 (UTC)
Whoops. Thought I had the right page open. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:19, 18 September 2026 (UTC)
A large sub-set about 20% of URLs contain /todays-paper/ (Example). The text downloads, flashes, then JavaScript hides it. It is a paywall. This paywall problem has come up in the past. So, I added a new configuration feature for subscription websites. It adds |archive-url= + |url-status=live + |url-access=subscription. This recognizes the link is still live in reality, but behind a paywall, and provides an archive for those who want the content that way. -- GreenC 05:37, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

PassA - standard run
Batch 00001-10000: Checked 10,000 pages and edited 4,745 pages. Moved 4,479 links to a new URL: 337 normal redirects, 2,231 ruled mapped redirects, 1,547 file mapped redirects, 364 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 1,352 soft-404s. Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 589 {{dead link}}. Switched 200 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 1,116 |url-status=live to dead. Added 2,222 archive URLs (2,222 Wayback).
Batch 10001-20000: Checked 10,000 pages and edited 4,850 pages. Moved 4,637 links to a new URL: 373 normal redirects, 2,192 ruled mapped redirects, 1,687 file mapped redirects, 385 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 1,543 soft-404s. Removed 7 {{dead link}}. Added 522 {{dead link}}. Switched 466 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 605 |url-status=live to dead. Added 1,968 archive URLs (1,968 Wayback).
Batch 20001-30000: Checked 10,000 pages and edited 4,795 pages. Moved 4,311 links to a new URL: 336 normal redirects, 2,133 ruled mapped redirects, 1,498 file mapped redirects, 344 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 1,403 soft-404s. Removed 6 {{dead link}}. Added 539 {{dead link}}. Switched 402 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 570 |url-status=live to dead. Added 1,920 archive URLs (1,920 Wayback).
Batch 30001-40000: Checked 10,002 pages and edited 4,924 pages. Moved 4,476 links to a new URL: 324 normal redirects, 2,199 ruled mapped redirects, 1,611 file mapped redirects, 342 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 1,538 soft-404s. Removed 4 {{dead link}}. Added 526 {{dead link}}. Switched 344 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 597 |url-status=live to dead. Added 2,108 archive URLs (2,108 Wayback).
Batch 40001-53039: Checked 13,044 pages and edited 6,387 pages. Moved 5,625 links to a new URL: 442 normal redirects, 2,687 ruled mapped redirects, 2,037 file mapped redirects, 459 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 1,920 soft-404s. Removed 6 {{dead link}}. Added 709 {{dead link}}. Switched 445 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 790 |url-status=live to dead. Added 2,645 archive URLs (2,645 Wayback).
PassB - archive.today links swapped to Wayback
001-723: Checked 723 pages and edited 718 pages. Added 21 {{dead link}}. Switched 84 |url-status=live to dead. Added 929 archive URLs (929 Wayback).
PassC - missed repairs from PassA Batch 00001-10000
0001-1942: Checked 1,942 pages and edited 1,651 pages. Moved 45 links to a new URL: 1 normal redirects, 19 ruled mapped redirects, 10 file mapped redirects, 15 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 395 soft-404s. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 247 {{dead link}}. Switched 1,930 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 1 |url-status=live to dead. Added 329 archive URLs (329 Wayback).

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 18:58, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

cmfr-phil.org

Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility is shutting down. External links search shows 278 hits. Chlod (say hi!) 03:54, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi User:Chlod. https://cmfr-phil.org/ is still live, along with every link I spot checked. Sometimes organizations will keep content online as a digital archive. It's relatively cheap to keep a static copy of the content online. How long that lasts is impossible to say, depending whoever funds it. The question for us: do we mark links as dead even though the site is live, but the organization itself is dead. It raises philosophical questions what counts as dead vs. live .. For simple news articles it's probably doesn't matter either way, but they also have some interactive databases which won't work in the WaybackMachine, but do work at the live site, thus marking those links dead would be a regression. I notice the website is failing technically in a few non-critical areas, like the clock on the homepage. -- GreenC 18:45, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

rap-up.com

website seems to have been changed to revolt.tv, with all links at rap-up directing back to the revolt.tv homepage Majash2020 (talk) 04:59, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

3,280 pages. There was corporate merger in April 2025 and REVOLT still has some old articles: this now here. -- GreenC 05:28, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

Pass A: Standard run
  • Checked 3,236 pages and edited 3,116 pages. Moved 227 links to a new URL: 227 file mapped redirects, Added 37 {{dead link}}. Switched 1 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 2,116 |url-status=live to dead. Added 4,256 archive URLs (4,256 Wayback).
Pass B: Convert archive.today to WaybackMachine links

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 01:26, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

rep-am.com

This newspaper redirects to CT Insider, which is part of this umbrella. Unfortunately, the Republican-American articles I checked are not at CT Insider. Therefore, I think this website should be considered fully broken. 199 articles. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:26, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 05:40, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

vault.si.com

This one was already requested by me in 2024. However, it looks like all of Sports Illustrated's vault is now gone after checking links at Babe Ruth . ~2900. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:36, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 18:43, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/

As far as I can tell, all 325 of these produce soft 404's, so archive links need to be added. In the couple of cases I checked, the content is available on the live web but there's almost but not quite a pattern between the old and new URL's, due to extra numbers being added in the new URL scheme ((e.g. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/23755/nickelcreek-thisside/ is now https://www.popmatters.com/23755-nickelcreek-thisside-2496013213.html and https://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/54008/nick-cave-and-warren-ellis-music-from-the-motion-picture-the-assassination-/ is now https://www.popmatters.com/nick-cave-and-warren-ellis-music-from-the-motion-picture-the-assassination-2496181445.html). Thanks! Graham87 (talk) 09:28, 23 September 2026 (UTC)

Ok. It is possible to map the extra numbers to a new URL, with site map and CDX data. Looks like most of them can be converted to a live URL. -- GreenC 20:32, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 23:06, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

tollbooth.org

Another music review site, this one with 839 uses ... it still seems to be going but has lost most of its content and is returning dead links on almost all of its pages linked from here, at least some of which have soft 404's. InternetArchiveBot didn't touch http://www.tollbooth.org/2002/reviews/ncreek.html but did archive this link. As for links that actually are live, I checked all the HTTPS links manually (assuming them to be newer) and the only working one I found was https://tollbooth.org/music-reviews/michael-sweet/master-plan-michael-sweet. Thanks again. Graham87 (talk) 09:37, 23 September 2026 (UTC)

I spent a while tracking what happened. In March 2024, the site moved CMS from Joomla to Drupal, and this is when nearly 30 years of articles from 1995 -> February 2024 simply vanished. It looked suspicious like the domain expired and it was taken over by scammers, but nope, the same people appear to run it, the content does not exist anywhere else on the website, and no other websites have the content. Even the same authors continue to publish from 2024-present. They just deleted the old content, for whatever unknown reason. -- GreenC 01:27, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 03:22, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

asiaplustj.info

Old domain: asiaplustj.info (incl. www.)
New domain: asiaplus.news

Asia-Plus, an independent news agency in Tajikistan (founded 1996), moved from asiaplustj.info to asiaplus.news in March 2026. Old article URLs return a 301 redirect to the same article on the new site. The old domain stays registered and keeps redirecting for now, but we'd like citations on Wikipedia to point directly to the current URLs.

On en.wikipedia this covers about 413 links in 282 articles. I checked each link and compared the date in the old URL with the date in the final URL:

Existing |archive-url= values can be kept as they are. Only |url= needs updating.

Disclosure: I work for Asia-Plus. That's why I'm asking here instead of editing the articles myself. Бахманёр Надиров (talk) 06:12, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

Update: the links that redirect to the wrong article (7 distinct URLs, 11 links) are now resolved by hand and added to the mapping page, so they no longer need to be skipped. For these, please use the listed target rather than following the redirect. Everything else in the request is unchanged. Бахманёр Надиров (talk) 07:03, 25 September 2026 (UTC)
Looks all clear, except the old.* and archive URLs. -- GreenC 07:03, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 07:14, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

philly.com/MovieReviewID

this moved to here DiophantineEquation (talk) 05:17, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

There are only 9 articles with MovieReviewID, and 8 of them were already converted to inquirer.com. The remaining one at Thumbsucker (film) I converted by hand.
 Done -- GreenC 16:04, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

djournal.com

Found that this is now here for Rae Sremmurd. Unfortunately, this doesn't redirect. If your bot can find ghost redirects to the new versions, that'd be great. Otherwise, I think they'll have to be tagged as broken. Note that working links will lead to a paywall. ~520 Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:07, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Was able to map 142 via sitemaps and CDX (ie. ghost). The rest archived. -- GreenC 21:36, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

Pass A: normal run
Pass B: Convert archive.today
  • Checked 9 pages and edited 9 pages. Switched 1 |url-status=live to dead. Added 9 archive URLs (9 Wayback).

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 22:08, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

questia.com

This was requested in 2022 but not sure if it was done. Questia Online Library used to exist until 2020. This hosted books, magazines, newspaper articles, etc. I found a broken link to this site at Freddie Mercury. These citations could potentially be converted to structured citations if links can't be found, like how it was done at highbeam.com above. ~5900. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:27, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Some archives are not available for Questia, but the original HighBeam is available: Special:Diff/1371567909/1379562481. Filling in metadata and structured citations: Special:Diff/1377479771/1379562426. Replaced archive.today in about 10% of cases, the rest have no replacements: Special:Diff/1379183494/1379479013 -- GreenC 19:09, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

Pass A: standard run
  • Checked 5,949 pages and edited 5,511 pages. Removed 716 {{dead link}}. Added 438 {{dead link}}. Switched 310 |url-status=live to dead. Converted 2,001 free-form references to CS1. Switched 1,107 to |url-status=usurped. Added 4,154 archive URLs (4,154 Wayback).
Pass B: convert archive.today
  • Checked 11 pages and edited 11 pages. Switched 7 |url-status=live to dead. Added 12 archive URLs (12 Wayback).

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 07:34, 11 October 2026 (UTC)

news.virginia.edu

University of Virginia has removed or archived several articles.

this redirects to here

this has completely disappeared, but has an archive. DiophantineEquation (talk) 09:16, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

386 pages

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 07:49, 12 October 2026 (UTC)

hrcak.srce.hr

Moved from User talk:GreenC

Hey GreenC. I was wondering if IAB can replace hrcak.srce.hr links to PDFS such as https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/36682 that are now marked as dead (because they're disallowing robots) with https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/36682 (file/ → clanak/). I've fixed a few dozen, like in Special:Diff/1377516001 or hr:Special:Diff/7604785/7609629, but for any future work this should better be automated. WP:RICHMEDIA applies anyway. Ponor (talk) 20:36, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Ponor, I will do on Enwiki, but no support yet for URL moving on other wikis. -- GreenC 02:24, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
Thank @GreenC. Is it possible to have IAB not mark the /file links as dead? They're only "dead" for robots, since recently. Many journals are hosted there and people will keep adding these links. Ponor (talk) 02:33, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
IABOt is limited. The best I can do is mark the entire domain as subscription site eg. skip taking any action for any URL under the domain hrcak.srce.hr .. checking it was already set that way. -- GreenC 03:38, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

444 pages

Enwiki

(nothing for IABot DB to do)

 Done -- GreenC 02:45, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

atoptics.co.uk

Requesting a URL move for the Atmospheric Optics reference site.

Requested change

Examples

Scope

Iannuttall (talk) 14:46, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

51 pages

Enwiki

IABOt DB

 Done -- GreenC 04:20, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

archive.macleans.ca

Found this broken link at Shania Twain. No luck with finding a replacement link at the main site. Looks like none of the archived articles are there anymore. ~760. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:13, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

They might exist, but hidden in a subscription service . One option is like thehindu.com: |url-access=subscription + |archive-url= + |url-status=live .. it's sort of a guess though as I have no way of verifying the content is there; and meanwhile the "live" link returns 404 and provides no paywall or subscription notification, looking exactly like a dead link. Given this, I think it is technically a dead link, not a subscription link. -- GreenC 04:16, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 07:01, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

charlotteobserver.com

Articles with /year/month/day/ are broken. The live articles end with article[numberid].html. For example, this is now here for Deshaun Watson. Unfortunately, this doesn't redirect to the new link. It would be great if ghost redirects could be found. ~630 for this format. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:28, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

Pass A: normal run
Pass B: convert archive.today

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 04:54, 15 October 2026 (UTC)

cornell.edu

This website has a mixture of working, broken and redirects. For example, This goes here for Thailand while this doesnt work for Pennsylvania. As there are so many subdomains, I can't predict which ones need fixing.

I think it might be easier to check a handful of links in each subdomain/main website first. Then, the request could focus on the areas that are redirecting or broken. Otherwise, the entire website is ~18k. Let me know what you think. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:01, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

It was difficult to determine the exact pages with cornell.edu URLs due to WMF API timeouts, so I took a broad sweep of all possibilities ~ 42k and let the program sort out which ones contain a URL during processing. Cornell has a rich variety of subdomains so it was not practical to break into smaller chunks.

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 00:01, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Discussion

This bot keeps marking links as broken that, when I click them, work fine. –jacobolus (t) 22:05, 17 October 2026 (UTC)

–jacobolus: Can you provide some examples? This was a challenging site due to bot blockers and rate limiters, and the scale, but anything can be fixed if I know the problem. -- GreenC 22:19, 17 October 2026 (UTC)
Based on your edit history, it looks like you found some math books that redirect to HathiTrust. For example this redirects to this. In total there are 31 URLs across 30 articles. I suggest the bot replace the cornell.edu link with the destination URL at Hathi. Redirects are fragile and these are actually a double redirect so the chances of it failing are high; it is safer not to use a proxy. The HathiTrust URLs (handle.net) are persistent identifiers meaning they never change or redirect. -- GreenC 22:35, 17 October 2026 (UTC)
That sounds good. Can the bot change all of the links of this type? –jacobolus (t) 23:17, 17 October 2026 (UTC)
Done updated 30 pages eg. Special:Diff/1380711733/1380801630 -- GreenC 00:29, 18 October 2026 (UTC)
(in that example I notice Notes on Roulettes and Glissettes points to the wrong book, a pre-existing error) -- GreenC 00:33, 18 October 2026 (UTC)

bollywoodlife.com

Came across broken link at Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat. Looks like this website needs to be tagged as fully broken. ~770. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:42, 12 October 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 03:56, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

theaustralian.com.au

this moved to here

this moved here

couldn't find this, seems dead, no archive. DiophantineEquation (talk) 12:20, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

10,102 pages

Paywall site, bot blockers, rate limiter, old-style URLs, broken links, missing archives, missing |url-access=subscription and {{subscription}} tags. -- GreenC 17:20, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

Pass A: normal run
  • In progress landing October 25 -- GreenC 20:22, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
Pass B: convert archive.today
  • Checked 58 pages and edited 57 pages. Switched 3 |url-status=live to dead. Added 72 archive URLs (71 Wayback). Changed 4 citation metadata.
72 archive.today converted to Wayback Machine

news.com.au

this moved to here DiophantineEquation (talk) 12:25, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

15,668 pages


Enwiki

Pass A: standard run
  • Batch 00001-05000: Checked 5,000 pages and edited 3,394 pages. Moved 2,238 links to a new URL: 262 normal redirects, 801 ruled mapped redirects, 1,175 file mapped redirects, Removed 7 {{dead link}}. Added 406 {{dead link}}. Switched 530 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 180 |url-status=live to dead. Converted 762 structured references. Added 951 archive URLs (951 Wayback). Changed 2,682 citation metadata.
  • Batch 05001-15597: Checked 10,597 pages and edited 7,020 pages. Moved 4,633 links to a new URL: 535 normal redirects, 1,818 ruled mapped redirects, 2,280 file mapped redirects, Resolved 3 soft-404s. Removed 12 {{dead link}}. Added 801 {{dead link}}. Switched 1,009 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 434 |url-status=live to dead. Converted 1,551 structured references. Added 1,866 archive URLs (1,866 Wayback). Changed 5,269 citation metadata.
Pass B: convert archive.today
  • Checked 136 pages and edited 136 pages. Switched 8 |url-status=live to dead. Added 151 archive URLs (151 Wayback). Changed 143 citation metadata.
Converted 151 archive.today to Wayback

IABot DB

 Done -- GreenC 01:02, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

seattletimes.nwsource.com

Noticed that the archived broken link at Andrew Garfield is now live here. Unfortunately, removing nwsource from the URL doesnt make a redirect. If ghost redirects can be found, that'd be great. I filtered out the community links as they were done last year. ~3k. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:49, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

hrw.org

Many of these links redirect. With the ones I checked, they start with the following URLs:

However, since this website has a lot of other folder names, I think it'd be better to check them all. ~8k. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:49, 15 October 2026 (UTC)

pastemagazine.com/endlessmode.com

Follow up on an older request - it looks like some Paste (magazine) redirects are broken (Paste originally redirected a bunch of older articles to Endless Mode with a new masthead & when they shuttered that website, redirected them to The A.V. Club with that masthead). For example, https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/storm-kings-thunder-is-a-performative-dungeon-mast.html redirects to a "not found" at https://www.endlessmode.com/video-games/dungeons-dragons/storm-kings-thunder-is-a-performative-dungeon-mast but you can find the article at https://www.avclub.com/storm-kings-thunder-is-a-performative-dungeon-mast. Not sure if this is just an issue of Paste → Endless Mode → A.V. Club or also original Endless Mode articles → A.V. Club.

I think even if the Paste/Endless Mode urls can be matched with an A.V. Club url, it should be instead marked as dead with an archive link showing the original masthead if that is available. The A.V. Club version does not indicate anywhere these articles were originally published by other news outlets and it could lead to confusion (ie. a reader or editor could see "Cameron Kunzelman, for Paste, wrote ..." & then wonder why the citation says A.V. Club instead). Sariel Xilo (talk) 23:20, 17 October 2026 (UTC)

upenn.edu

Came across an archived link at Kevin Werbach. Unfortunately, this website has lots of domains with various issues. This one at Massachusetts soft redirects to the main page. While this one at Augustine of Hippo works, it took a long time to open. I think this might need to be resolved fully like at cornell.edu due to the huge amount of pages. 12k. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:36, 19 October 2026 (UTC)

alertnet.org

this redirects to Reuter's website, should be marked as a permadead website and archives where possible DiophantineEquation (talk) 08:20, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

accesshollywood.com

this link redirects to YouTube for some reason. DiophantineEquation (talk) 08:24, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

wired.com

this moved here and this moved here DiophantineEquation (talk) 09:37, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

news.cnet.com

this moved here

this moved here DiophantineEquation (talk) 09:42, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

apnews.excite.com

this is here. DiophantineEquation (talk) 09:59, 25 October 2026 (UTC)