Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2022/May

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*.junkee.com

There are around 120 dead links to inthemix.junkee.com, all redirecting to https://junkee.com/inthemix-goodbye/179992. It seems this site was discontinued around November 2018, but most of the articles seem to be archived at web.archive.org CB9001 (talk) 20:43, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Looks like this extends to fasterlouder.junkee.com pages as well. CB9001 (talk) 20:50, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Plus fasterlobhjgjuder and itm: insource:"junkee.com" insource:/(inthemix|fasterlouder|fasterlobhjgjuder|itm).junkee.com/ = 330 pages. -- GreenC 03:02, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Working.. -- GreenC GreenC 19:00, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

..done. -- GreenC 20:18, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

museumvictoria.com.au needs update to museumsvictoria.com.au

Moved from Wikipedia:Help desk

– * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:40, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello,

museums victoria seem to have changed their url from museumvictoria.com.au to museumsvictoria.com.au . This has resulted in many broken links. Could someone fix this. Some of the links are preceded with collections such as collections.museumvictoria.com.au which also need to be updated. Thanks NeedsGlasses (talk) 02:16, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

I'll do this. -- GreenC 19:00, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

NeedsGlasses, done. About 30-40% of the links at the old site don't exist at the new site even with the added 's'. They have been replaced with archive URLs. -- GreenC 23:49, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

malaysiandigest.com usurped

this domain is likely usurped as the website is serving random content rather than the actual content. – robertsky (talk) 15:35, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

@Robertsky: Need a new category for fubar sites. Example. But sometimes it works example. Can we take this domain to WP:RSN because it looks unreliable when it works, and unreliable when it doesn't. In the mean time, I'll usurp the links in the hope the archive URLs close to the access-date will have captured a working page. It seems like the newer the page the more likely it still works. -- GreenC 17:12, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

It might also be a WP:USURPSOURCE site, not sure, pinging User:Greyfell who is more expert spotting them. -- GreenC 17:18, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

From browsing Archive.org, I think the legitimate site went down in 2018 and was replaced by junk around 2021. I can't tell exactly what's going on there now, but it's almost surely some form of bot generated spam. It looks like the earlier links that have been archived are superficially reliable, or at least reliable enough to be cited in good faith. Grayfell (talk) 22:56, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Alright. At this point they are all usurped with archive URL dates oldest available. That should take care of it. -- GreenC 12:36, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

great! thanks! – robertsky (talk) 17:18, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

FIBA tournaments

Moved from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)

– * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:54, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

I would like to ask some bot to edit the following 240 articles: (List) The problem is that FIBA has changed the URL for archived tournaments. So I need to edit all the articles that contain the following (obsolete) string...

www.fiba.basketball/pages/eng/fa/event

...and replace it with this string:

archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/event

Thank you very much in advance. Maiō T. (talk) 15:50, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

@Maiō T.:

Done NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 16:08, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

@NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:Thank you!!! All those references are now working properly. However, the strings I wrote should have been without "event". So I need your help once more. Please find these strings...

www.fiba.basketball/pages/eng/fa

...and replace them with this:

archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa

Here is the list. Thank you and sorry for the complications. Maiō T. (talk) 17:55, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

@Maiō T.:

Done NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 18:29, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh, thanks for your help but this was done incorrectly. See for example [1]. Notice it changed both the primary and archive URL. The problem now is the archive URL is broken. That is why we have URLREQ, because is requires specialized bots, it can't be done with string search-replace such as AWB. -- GreenC 18:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

I'm reverting my edits then. Really sorry. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 18:58, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

@GreenC: Aaah, everything is in its original state. And that's not good. Is there a possibility that this can be fixed? Maiō T. (talk) 19:51, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Yes will do it. After finishing the two open requests above. -- GreenC 20:01, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Done. Changed 4,088 links in 516 articles. A couple places it was able to update metadata [2] but there are other places it would require manual. There were 0 problems with the site migration ie. every link at archive.* works (verified). Except for one link that had a syntax error [3] (trailing '/'). -- GreenC 14:52, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much! And @NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh: thank you too. 99% of your work was correct. What a pity for those few articles. Maiō T. (talk) 15:18, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Yes there were only 8 links that needed correction so 99.8% ! .. but you never know, like the above with museumvictoria.com.au it was off by over 30%. Some sites do a bad job migrating to new URLs, you can't trust it works without verification. And those archive URLs and metadata changes. Thank you Nguoi for reverting it was the safe thing. -- GreenC 16:46, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

hookhockey.com

The site hookhockey.com has been sniped. Apparently the former owner has a back-up of the site and wants to revive it[4], but currently all of our references are dead. gobonobo ⁺ ^c 12:53, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

6 months is a long time. We should usurp it. Only 120 articles. I'll get to it. -- GreenC 15:41, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

User:Gobonobo, done. Added 1,047 new archive links all set to usurped. 34 links had no archive available and those citations were deleted entirely. If the site ever comes back you can see in the edit history which ones in these 17 articles:

-- GreenC 05:48, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

That's great. Thank you so much GreenC. gobonobo ⁺ ^c 09:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

gatholic.com

gcatholic.com moved to gcatholic.org -- GreenC 23:57, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Done. -- GreenC 14:54, 30 May 2022 (UTC)