Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2021/February

mcleans.ca

I found a few dozen broken links to mcleans.ca. Can these links be replaced with archive URLs? Jarble (talk) 19:11, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Jarble: There are 517 that use "www2". A test of a couple suggests they might be made live again by removing the "2". Any that report 404 can be archived. Will check into it. -- GreenC 22:21, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

results: Converted 575 URLs in 496 articles. The few www2 remaining are archive URLs. -- GreenC 18:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Replace Airdisaster.com links

Copy-pasted thread from WP:BOTREQ

The website airdisaster.com appears to be used in several articles about aviation accidents, but now links to a spam site/domain hoarder, which seems very undesirable for users. Can someone get the direct links removed and where possible linked to an archived page? In particular where it is linked as an external link, occurrences in references appear to be fixed already Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 16:07, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

@Pieceofmetalwork: Are you suggesting adding {{webarchive}} like this edit? GoingBatty (talk) 18:46, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Yes, that would be a good solution. Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 18:48, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: Could these links be replaced by the Internet Archive Bot? Jarble (talk) 20:18, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Suggest trying WP:URLREQ, Jarble. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 16:04, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Yes this is URLREQ since it should also toggle |url-status=unfit. -- GreenC 21:36, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

It's done. Example edits: [1][2][3][4], etc.. -- GreenC 03:16, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

sfsite.com/~silverag

My website, formerly located at www.sfsite.com/~silverag has moved to www.stevenhsilver.com. It is used as a citation on numerous wikipedia pages. If a bot could go through and replace the string sfsite.com/~silverag with stevenhsilver.com it would correct the broken links. Shsilver (talk) 12:57, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi, the bot switched 108 URLs. There are 13 left the bot could not determine. -- GreenC 17:54, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. Some of those switched, others pointed to pages I decided not to upload to the new site. I appreciate your work and your bot's. Shsilver (talk) 19:19, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

Hello, the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency recently took down their website because it was based on Adobe Flash, breaking lots of links to documentation. I just checked a random one, and it was in the Internet Archive, so I assume that the link-changing bots could archive a good number of them. Could someone have a bot collect all the URLs of a form http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/XXXXXX.pdf and run all of them through IA? "X" represents a numeral; some of these files may have five or fewer numerals (XXXX.pdf), or may have seven or more (XXXXXXXX.pdf), so please don't assume that they're all six digits.

Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 19:27, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Nyttend, results are in 1,151 articles, 1,035 archive URLs and 217 {{dead link}}'s added. Let me know if you see any problems. PDFs are the easiest as they either clearly work or not. -- GreenC 01:35, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, GreenC. If you click any IHPA link (even my XXXXXX sample), you're taken to a page that says "A new version of HARGIS will be available in the coming weeks." (This was the case before I made this request; I asked because there's no guarantee that the new site will use the same linking structure for its PDFs.) Do you have a way of looking up where the 217 dead links are located? When I notice that they've put up the new version of the site, I may come back and ask for help getting the links working again, but only if you have a way of going through the ones that your bot handled, without un-archiving the 1035. Nyttend (talk) 12:19, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

In that case the 217 + 1035 might be live again (there are logs). Ping me when ready and will take a look. The bot can unwind archives, replace dead links with live, move URL schemes, retrieve new URLs from redirects, etc.. -- GreenC 15:39, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

StarWars.com

Anything with http://www.starwars.com should be changed to https. Thanks. JediMasterMacaroni (Talk) 18:20, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Forwarded to User_talk:Bender235#StarWars.com -- GreenC 19:04, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Will do. --bender235 (talk) 19:33, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. JediMasterMacaroni (Talk) 19:34, 25 February 2021 (UTC)