Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2025/August
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newsarama.com
This site got merged to Gamesradar in 2020. I didn't find a replacement link for Superman Unchained at the new website. Therefore, I request archives links. If ghost redirects are found, then that is a bonus. ~3000 articles. Thanks again! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:56, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 2,992 pages and edited 2,113 pages. Added 315
{{dead link}}. Switched 961|url-status=liveto dead. Added 2,661 archive URLs (2,425 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 5,633 unique URLs
Done -- GreenC 20:26, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
www.dplh.wa.gov.au
Please have all links on this subdomain marked as dead, as they all redirect to the new homepage of this department (example). Only 152 links, many of them not in the main namespace ... and some of these pages need manual updates, but archiving the links would be a lot better than nothing. Thanks! Graham87 (talk) 04:33, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 122 pages and edited 113 pages. Switched 11
|url-status=liveto dead. Added 121 archive URLs (121 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 57 unique URLs
Done -- GreenC 21:27, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
ctvnews.ca
It appears ctvnews.ca changed the format of their urls at some point. They were of the format area.ctvnews.ca and are now ctvnews.ca/area/. A couple of examples, in August 8 the url "https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/former-premier-of-ontario-william-davis-dead-at-92-1.5539011" will auto redirect you to "https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/former-premier-of-ontario-william-davis-dead-at-92/".
However in May 1 the url "https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/it-s-got-to-make-some-kind-of-change-boycott-of-loblaws-owned-stores-begins-1.6869575" results in a 404, even though the article still exists at "https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/its-got-to-make-some-kind-of-change-boycott-of-loblaws-owned-stores-begins/". The redirect fails because it tries to redirect to "/it-s-" while the article is at "/its-".
I'm not sure how many areas there are but they include; Toronto, Atlantic, Montreal, Edmonton, Regina, and bc. There could be others. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 11:56, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
- There was another domain Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests#gamasutra.com with the same apostrophe problem (it-s vs its). The techniques learned there will be applicable here. -- GreenC 15:21, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
- Domain required a lot of special rules, it is now able to convert about 70% to live links. The other 30% are dead links mostly, but also some edge cases the rules can't catch, maybe 10% of that 30%. -- GreenC 21:05, 26 July 2025 (UTC)
- Amazing work, thanks GreenC. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 21:15, 26 July 2025 (UTC)
- Domain required a lot of special rules, it is now able to convert about 70% to live links. The other 30% are dead links mostly, but also some edge cases the rules can't catch, maybe 10% of that 30%. -- GreenC 21:05, 26 July 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Batch 1 (00000-05000): Checked 5,000 pages and edited 4,639 pages. Moved 5,510 links to a new URL: 423 normal redirects, 4,979 ruled mapped redirects, 108 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 123 soft-404s. Removed 4
{{dead link}}. Added 39{{dead link}}. Switched 122|url-status=deadto live. Switched 642|url-status=liveto dead. Added 2,080 archive URLs (1,976 Wayback).
- Batch 2 (05001-10214): Checked 5,214 pages and edited 4,835 pages. Moved 5,546 links to a new URL: 396 normal redirects, 5,065 ruled mapped redirects, 85 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 133 soft-404s. Removed 5
{{dead link}}. Added 48{{dead link}}. Switched 122|url-status=deadto live. Switched 770|url-status=liveto dead. Added 2,012 archive URLs (1,941 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 25,039 and updated 7,563 unique URLs
Done -- GreenC 03:25, 3 August 2025 (UTC)
economist.com/node/
These links redirect to new URLs like this to that for BASIC countries. I tested a few with question marks at the end and they seem to be redirecting. 2,951 articles. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:39, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 2,953 pages and edited 2,907 pages. Moved 3,310 links to a new URL: 377 normal redirects, 2,928 ruled mapped redirects, 5 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 11 soft-404s. Added 4
{{dead link}}. Switched 81|url-status=deadto live. Switched 10|url-status=liveto dead. Added 17 archive URLs (15 Wayback).
- found another 200 fixed -- GreenC 03:21, 3 August 2025 (UTC)
Done -- GreenC 02:17, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
680news.com
Most of these links that I tested redirect to links at citynews.ca. However, the redirect at De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter doesn't work and has no new url. I request that the redirects be done first then archives for the ones that don't. ~190 Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 05:46, 27 July 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 194 pages and edited 146 pages. Moved 135 links to a new URL: 47 normal redirects, 86 ruled mapped redirects, 2 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 4 soft-404s. Added 5
{{dead link}}. Switched 1|url-status=liveto dead. Added 12 archive URLs (11 Wayback).
Done -- GreenC 04:02, 3 August 2025 (UTC)
statto.com
- Moved from User:GreenC talk page
Hi, Many football-related Wikipedia pages currently link to archived versions of my website (https://www.statto.com/), which was offline for a while. It’s now fully restored, and the original content is live again. Since I can’t use a bot or edit all the pages manually, I was suggested that you can help update those Webarchve links back to the original URLs. Please let me know what’s possible or how best to proceed. Ggvanncaa (talk) 07:59, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- Ggvanncaa: I should be able to. You are in the queue. 2,641 pages -- GreenC 15:22, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 2,641 pages and edited 1,745 pages. Made live 2,784 URLs. Removed 45
{{dead link}}. Added 1 archive URLs (0 Wayback).
Done -- GreenC 04:55, 3 August 2025 (UTC)
anandtech.com
The article archives for the AnandTech website have been removed, and links to AnandTech or its article archives are now being redirected to the AnandTech forums front page. Links to AnandTech articles on Wikipedia need to be modified to go to an archive site. Jesse Viviano (talk) 06:05, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 1,191 pages and edited 1,171 pages. Added 14
{{dead link}}. Switched 707|url-status=liveto dead. Added 2,395 archive URLs (2,049 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 2,551 unique URLs
Done -- GreenC 20:47, 6 August 2025 (UTC)
belediyye.org
This now redirects to a website for a New Jersey state representative, for doubtlessly inscrutable reasons, so link templates should be updated accordingly. --Slowking Man (talk) 16:03, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
Not done only because there was nothing to do. It was already done. Of the 1,461 citations, 1,459 have the same URL. -- GreenC 23:53, 6 August 2025 (UTC)
musicline.de
Musicline.de used to host the Germany music charts. Although these chart positions can be found at offiziellecharts.de, they can't be converted over because they have an numerical id in the URL. Some pages already have archives. Not sure if The Fixer (song) can be fixed because it's in a wikitable. ~1400. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:32, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 1,468 pages and edited 570 pages. Added 60
{{dead link}}. Switched 37|url-status=liveto dead. Added 591 archive URLs (530 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated about 12,000 unique URLs
Done -- GreenC 05:09, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
abs-cbn.com
This website has a mixture of things that need fixing.
- 1) Urls with domain names, like entertainment.abs-cbn.com, are redirecting to soft 404s.
- 2) Links that start with https://abs-cbn.com or http://abs-cbn.com/ are broken. No luck with adding www in front of the URL.
- 3) Links that start with http://www.abs-cbn.com are redirecting to new live links at https://www.abs-cbn.com.
~2000 articles. I filtered out the Https www links as they seem to be working. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:25, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
- I found 7,700 without https://www .. but the entire domain is not much more 9,334, I might as well do them all see what turns up. -- GreenC 01:02, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
- I see you found a lot more than I thought. If you feel like doing them all, go for it! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:07, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Batch 1: Checked 4,000 pages and edited 3,428 pages. Moved 9,023 links to a new URL: 7,463 normal redirects, 1,523 ruled mapped redirects, 37 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 2,187 soft-404s. Removed 25
{{dead link}}. Added 209{{dead link}}. Switched 456|url-status=deadto live. Switched 223|url-status=liveto dead. Added 2,000 archive URLs (1,912 Wayback). - Batch 2: Checked 5,748 pages and edited 4,997 pages. Moved 13,138 links to a new URL: 10,913 normal redirects, 2,137 ruled mapped redirects, 88 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 3,326 soft-404s. Removed 6
{{dead link}}. Added 235{{dead link}}. Switched 474|url-status=deadto live. Switched 421|url-status=liveto dead. Added 2,530 archive URLs (2,476 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 15,000 URLs and updated about 2,867
Notes
- The soft-404s in this case were difficult because while the page content was displaying a "home" page, the URL itself didn't redirect, so it required foreknowledge of HTML keywords to know when the page landed on a soft-404. There were about 3 dozen different "home" page variations to be discovered. For this reason I had to redo Batch 1 a couple times before it was ready for upload.
Done -- GreenC 21:04, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
1up.com
The article archives for the 1UP.com website as seen in 1Up Network have been removed, and links to 1UP.com or its article archives are now being redirected to the IGN front page. Links to 1UP.com articles on Wikipedia need to be modified to go to an archive site. Jesse Viviano (talk) 09:29, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 3,254 pages and edited 618 pages. Added 20
{{dead link}}. Switched 440|url-status=liveto dead. Added 332 archive URLs (263 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 6,761 URLs
Done -- GreenC 21:37, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
collider.com
Urls ending with /number/ can be fixed by removing the number and ending slash of the URL. This is now here for Anne Hathaway. I do not know how to extract these URLS as the number id's are at the end of the URL. Ive only found that one and this for Bruce Willis so far from the 10k overall links. May only be a handful to convert. In any case, thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:25, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- Are you doing the entire domain? I only requested the ones with numbers at the end. The rest can be filtered out. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:04, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
- It's OK, I'm here, might as well check them. It didn't take long because most return 200 or simply convert to https. As for filtering, I don't know how with insource, need to load all links anyway. Also, it's usually best to check the entire domain because it creates more data for soft-404 algorithms to learn from, and there are usually unknown-unknowns to be discovered. In this case I discovered this is now here, added the rule and repaired a couple hundred. I won't do IABot because there isn't much that can be done, IABot doesn't support URL moves which is mostly what this is (other than 52 archives in 10,000+ URLs). -- GreenC 02:51, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
- I didn't want you to waste your time. However, I see you found more to fix. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:35, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
- It's OK, I'm here, might as well check them. It didn't take long because most return 200 or simply convert to https. As for filtering, I don't know how with insource, need to load all links anyway. Also, it's usually best to check the entire domain because it creates more data for soft-404 algorithms to learn from, and there are usually unknown-unknowns to be discovered. In this case I discovered this is now here, added the rule and repaired a couple hundred. I won't do IABot because there isn't much that can be done, IABot doesn't support URL moves which is mostly what this is (other than 52 archives in 10,000+ URLs). -- GreenC 02:51, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 10,307 pages and edited 2,312 pages. Moved 2,275 links to a new URL: 78 normal redirects, 2,182 ruled mapped redirects, 15 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 21 soft-404s. Removed 1
{{dead link}}. Added 11{{dead link}}. Switched 470|url-status=deadto live. Switched 51|url-status=liveto dead. Added 52 archive URLs (49 Wayback).
Done -- GreenC 02:51, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
casetext.com
Site recently shut down by parent company. ~2300 pages. James (talk/contribs) 05:34, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 2,266 pages and edited 2,144 pages. Added 330
{{dead link}}. Switched 145|url-status=liveto dead. Added 2,391 archive URLs (2,382 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 2,221
Done -- GreenC 14:28, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
nzhistory.net.nz
Following a URL move from nzhistory.net.nz → nzhistory.govt.nz, the former has now been taken over by a gambling website. Could a bot change ".net" to ".govt" in all the outdated refs? Currently looks like ~1,160 pages. Thanks, Nil🥝 03:49, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 1,164 pages and edited 1,146 pages. Moved 1,499 links to a new URL: 1,494 ruled mapped redirects, 5 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 1 soft-404s. Added 3
{{dead link}}. Switched 70|url-status=deadto live. Switched 5|url-status=liveto dead. Added 41 archive URLs (38 Wayback).
Done -- GreenC 06:51, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- Much appreciated, thank you! Nil🥝 01:54, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
mht.maryland.gov
this moved here. -- GreenC 03:59, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 1,434 pages and edited 1,428 pages. Moved 1,529 links to a new URL: 3 normal redirects, 1,525 ruled mapped redirects, 1 ghost mapped redirects, Added 14
{{dead link}}. Switched 8|url-status=deadto live. Switched 53|url-status=liveto dead. Added 209 archive URLs (201 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 1,400
Done -- GreenC 05:30, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
China Post
Chinapost.com.tw was the URL before the publication got bought by Now News and moved to Chinapost.nownews.com. The newspaper no longer exists, making both the old and new urls broken.
Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:44, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
chinapost.com.tw
- Enwiki
- Checked 1,207 pages and edited 926 pages. Added 16
{{dead link}}. Switched 256|url-status=liveto dead. Added 1,125 archive URLs (1,051 Wayback).
- Checked 1,207 pages and edited 926 pages. Added 16
- IABot DB
- Checked 1,180 urls
chinapost.nownews.com
- Enwiki
- Checked 97 pages and edited 77 pages. Added 7
{{dead link}}. Switched 13|url-status=liveto dead. Added 66 archive URLs (66 Wayback).
- Checked 97 pages and edited 77 pages. Added 7
- IABot DB
- Checked 114 urls
Done -- GreenC 21:12, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
hyperfun
There are two urls because this is the second time the project site has moved: 1. cis.k.hosei.ac.jp/~F-rep/ — dead link 2. hyperfun.org — spammer (link to casino on homepage, no impersonation) The second link appears to have been usurped a year or two ago.
I've manually changed a few links (regular and archive) on the pages HyperFun and Function Representation to a site which matches the archive.
Bhbuehler (talk) 20:23, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
Not done - only in a couple pages, and they are already fixed. -- GreenC 21:17, 30 August 2025 (UTC)