Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests
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US agencies
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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)
White HouseDepartment of Health and Human ServicesDepartment of AgricultureUSAIDNational Park Serviceworker.govDepartment of LaborU.S. Agency for Global Media - usagm.govFederal Mediation and Conciliation Service (United States) - fmcs.govWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - wilsoncenter.orgInstitute of Museum and Library Services - imls.govCommunity Development Financial Institutions Fund - cdfifund.govMinority Business Development Agency - mbda.govDepartment of Transportation - dot.gov- includes 11 agencies: FAA, FHWA, FMCSA, FRA, FTA, GLS, MARAD, NHTSA, OIG, OST, PHMSAEnvironmental Protection Agency - epa.govDepartment of Housing and Urban Development - hud.gov- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- National Institutes of Health
- General Services Administration
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Commerce
- employer.gov
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
- sftool.gov
- Department of Energy
- Department of the Interior
- Department of Education
- NOAA
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
climate.gov- Department of Defense
- Health Resources & Services Administration
- AbilityOne Commission
- Department of State
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- BOEM
- The Census Bureau
- CISA
- HUD User
- MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION
- performance.gov
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
- Federal Aviation Administration
Food and Drug Administration- House of Representatives
- Department of Justice
National Endowment for the Humanities- Department of the Treasury
- youth.gov
- American Climate Corps
- Federal Trade Commission
- Global Change Research Program
- NASA
- Administration for Community Living
- National Endowment for the Arts
- ATF
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Customs and Border Protection
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Economic Development Administration
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
- FBI
- Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology
- Federal Housing Finance Agency
- geoplatform.gov
- Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy
- IRS
- National Labor Relations Board
- Office of Personnel Management
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- American Battle Monuments Commission
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
americorps.gov- Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health
- Bonneville Power Administration
- cms.gov
- congress.gov
- digital.gov
- ENERGY STAR
- ej.gov
- farmers.gov
- medicalcountermeasures.gov
- peacecorps.gov
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Social Security Administration
- stopbullying.gov
- Citizenship and Immigration Services
United States Interagency Council on Homelessness- workcenter.gov
Air ForceArmyNavy- Marine Corps
State government websites in the United States
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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:
- Delaware
- Indiana
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey (since 2025)
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Possibly South Dakota (since Kristi Noem's resignation to become DHS secretary)
- Virginia (since 2025)
- Washington
- West Virginia
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
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
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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)
- 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)
- 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)
A few dead links
[edit]I was fixing some MCU-related pages and noticed that some of these stopped working. Not sure how common this is or what the fix is other than marking as dead.
Gonnym (talk) 08:43, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
- Some of these are still available under different URLs. For example, the denofgeek source was moved here, the nerdist source was moved to their archive, and the CBR article was moved here. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 05:51, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
This request is kind of a can of worms because it is 5 different domains, each should have a separate request. And ARandomName123 has identified some excellent rules for moving links, there are likely more rules to be discovered. Looking at the numbers:
- comicbookresources.com 3,451 pages some convertible to cbr.com
- nerdist.com 2,182 pages some convertible to archive.nerdist.com
- denofgeek.com 6,799 pages maybe some convertible
- observationdeck.io9.com 31 pages, all dead
- hitfix.com 2,687 pages. This site ceased to exist in 2016, content was purchased by Uproxx Media Group in 2017, in 2018 Warner Music Group acquired Uproxx, in 2024 Uproxx re-acquired it from Warner, and today it is doing business as Uproxx Studios. I don't see the original HitFix content available at https://uproxx.com/ unless someone can find it, the domain is dead.
- I feel the need to note some nerdist sources that have working links at archive.nerdist don't have working content there. (Or more accurately, I had to switch a cite back to dead (actually... I'm going to go switch it to deviated because that's more accurate) because it's an audio interview whose file doesn't exist on its live archive.nerdist page but does exist on its Wayback Machine link.) This, of course, is not the bot's fault; I imagine it has no way to tell the difference between a working link with a working audio file on it and a working link with no audio file on it (and then some nerdist cites (like the Marvel one mentioned above) are text, so...). - Purplewowies (talk) 04:40, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- "an audio interview whose file doesn't exist on its live archive.nerdist page but does exist on its Wayback Machine link." That's unusual! Usually with media files the Wayback link is broken and the live link works. Had I known this I could have scraped the page for audio content and added a rule to treat it as a dead link (add archive). If you want to show an example I can look into it. -- GreenC 22:56, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Amazing work with the bot. Thank you! Gonnym (talk) 08:56, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
- @GreenC: The one the bot changed in this edit, https://archive.nerdist.com/the-mutant-season-34-dylan-sprouse/, has an audio player on it that tries to request https://traffic.libsyn.com/themutantseason/TMS34_Dylan_Sprouse.mp3 (which is a dead link--the download and the play button both try to get this file/URL). The archive.org copy, on the other hand, did successfully archive the file (despite its attempt to load the player itself failing) if one goes through the download link on the archived page (something I was also fully expecting to not work). The specific archived link's download button was doing a 302 response at the time, but archive.org does redirect one to the archived audio file in this instance (here, for reference). I don't know if archive.org managed to properly archive everything like that (since my experience is the same as you regarding the vast majority of media files), but since Dylan and Cole Sprouse is on my watchlist I went down that rabbithole just to make sure the archive it already had was actually useful and all... (Seconding that you do do amazing work with this bot.) - Purplewowies (talk) 04:10, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
- wow surprised it worked. I'm not sure how to approach this because most editors will see the broken player and stop there, and not follow it through to the end, as you say a rabbit hole. Also the archive.org libsyn.com link didn't play for me in Firefox, but it worked in Chrome. If we go back to https://archive.nerdist.com/the-mutant-season-34-dylan-sprouse/ and look at the Download button it points to http://traffic.libsyn.com/themutantseason/TMS34_Dylan_Sprouse.mp3 which is pretty clear it was an MP3 file. The Wayback Machine has an archive page for that, it redirects back to the libsyn.com archive page here. Notice the "&expiration=1529532070" .. that is a self-destruct command, the URL works for a short period then stops working. The WaybackMachine captured it before it expired. This is sometimes done by sites to protect from web scrapers and piracy. So they are on record they don't want the content forever available. A messy problem on a couple levels. -- GreenC 06:06, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- The bit about Firefox not playing it is interesting, as I did all that checking in Firefox. Huh! - Purplewowies (talk) 17:10, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- wow surprised it worked. I'm not sure how to approach this because most editors will see the broken player and stop there, and not follow it through to the end, as you say a rabbit hole. Also the archive.org libsyn.com link didn't play for me in Firefox, but it worked in Chrome. If we go back to https://archive.nerdist.com/the-mutant-season-34-dylan-sprouse/ and look at the Download button it points to http://traffic.libsyn.com/themutantseason/TMS34_Dylan_Sprouse.mp3 which is pretty clear it was an MP3 file. The Wayback Machine has an archive page for that, it redirects back to the libsyn.com archive page here. Notice the "&expiration=1529532070" .. that is a self-destruct command, the URL works for a short period then stops working. The WaybackMachine captured it before it expired. This is sometimes done by sites to protect from web scrapers and piracy. So they are on record they don't want the content forever available. A messy problem on a couple levels. -- GreenC 06:06, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- "an audio interview whose file doesn't exist on its live archive.nerdist page but does exist on its Wayback Machine link." That's unusual! Usually with media files the Wayback link is broken and the live link works. Had I known this I could have scraped the page for audio content and added a rule to treat it as a dead link (add archive). If you want to show an example I can look into it. -- GreenC 22:56, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
comicbookresources.com
[edit]- Enwiki
- Checked 3,579 pages and edited 3,023 pages. Moved 1,492 links to a new URL: 1,336 ruled mapped redirects, 156 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 5,259 soft-404s. Removed 5
{{dead link}}. Added 24{{dead link}}. Switched 629|url-status=deadto live. Switched 1,038|url-status=liveto dead. Added 3,515 archive URLs (3,515 Wayback).
- Checked 3,579 pages and edited 3,023 pages. Moved 1,492 links to a new URL: 1,336 ruled mapped redirects, 156 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 5,259 soft-404s. Removed 5
- IABot DB
- Updated about 7,000 links
Done -- GreenC 01:15, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
nerdist.com
[edit]- Enwiki
- Checked 1,985 pages and edited 1,047 pages. Moved 1,092 links to a new URL: 16 normal redirects, 1,076 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 5 soft-404s. Removed 2
{{dead link}}. Switched 544|url-status=deadto live. Switched 6|url-status=liveto dead. Added 28 archive URLs (28 Wayback).
- Checked 1,985 pages and edited 1,047 pages. Moved 1,092 links to a new URL: 16 normal redirects, 1,076 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 5 soft-404s. Removed 2
- IABot DB
- Updated about 1,400 links
- Done -- GreenC 06:08, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
denofgeek.com
[edit]- Enwiki
- Checked 6,637 pages and edited 2,631 pages. Moved 2,164 links to a new URL: 1,032 normal redirects, 800 ruled mapped redirects, 332 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 47 soft-404s. Removed 31
{{dead link}}. Added 28{{dead link}}. Switched 93|url-status=deadto live. Switched 357|url-status=liveto dead. Added 436 archive URLs (436 Wayback).
- Checked 6,637 pages and edited 2,631 pages. Moved 2,164 links to a new URL: 1,032 normal redirects, 800 ruled mapped redirects, 332 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 47 soft-404s. Removed 31
- IABot DB
- Checked about 10,000 and updated 3,200
- Done -- GreenC 23:49, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
observationdeck.io9.com
[edit]- Domain is dead and in 31 pages. Invoked IABot it should get most of them. -- GreenC 23:13, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Re-done with WaybackMedic on July 14 2026 (see same section name below) -- GreenC 23:56, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
hitfix.com
[edit]- Enwiki
- Checked 1,818 pages and edited 1,136 pages. Added 9
{{dead link}}. Switched 770|url-status=liveto dead. Added 865 archive URLs (865 Wayback).
- Checked 1,818 pages and edited 1,136 pages. Added 9
- IABot DB
- Updated about 1,000 links
- Done -- GreenC 16:45, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
Iranian websites
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Waiting for current world events to resolve. Unclear if the sites will go back online. -- GreenC 04:57, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
aftabnews.ir
[edit]Dead when I visit it. Around 200 links GrapesRock (talk) 10:08, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
mashreghnews.ir
[edit]Around 500 links. GrapesRock (talk) 10:52, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
farsnews.com
[edit]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)
www.newsday.com
[edit]I found that http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/arrow-is-off-to-a-fast-start-1.4089299 is now located at https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/arrow-is-off-to-a-fast-start-d33660. Gonnym (talk) 07:07, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
- 5,985 pages + download Wayback CDX records (apx 12 hrs)
- This will have two passes. The first will add archive URLs to dead links. The second will attempt to move dead links to live where possible. This process has elements of probabilistic (vs. deterministic). So the bot errs on the side of false negatives (ie. skips conversions) to avoid making false positives (converting to the wrong URL). The former has the backstop of an archive URL, the later has no backstop, it is a wrong URL. End result: it can't make as many conversions as otherwise would be possible. -- GreenC 03:03, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Pass 1: Checked 5,998 pages and edited 4,021 pages. Moved 27 links to a new URL: 7 normal redirects, 20 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 1,052 soft-404s. Removed 1
{{dead link}}. Added 408{{dead link}}. Switched 2|url-status=deadto live. Switched 926|url-status=liveto dead. Added 3,941 archive URLs (3,941 Wayback).
- Pass 2: Checked 5,998 pages and edited 2,217 pages. Moved 2,878 links to a new URL: 1 normal redirects, 3 ruled mapped redirects, 2,874 ruled inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 74 soft-404s. Removed 17
{{dead link}}. Added 387{{dead link}}. Switched 2,657|url-status=deadto live. Switched 8|url-status=liveto dead.
IABot DB
- Updated 8,112 URLs
Done -- GreenC 19:04, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
www.boston.com
[edit]https://www.boston.com/ae/tv/2012/10/09/arrow-falls-short-bullseye/r1BsuzTM8jDY923XdlOJFI/story.html is now at https://www.boston.com/culture/tv/2012/10/09/arrow-falls-short-of-a-bullseye/ Gonnym (talk) 07:08, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
- 14,929 pages + download Wayback CDX records (12+ hrs)
Enwiki
- Checked 14,736 pages and edited 12,098 pages. Moved 10,396 links to a new URL: 316 normal redirects, 2,659 ruled mapped redirects, 7,421 ruled inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 1,863 soft-404s. Removed 10
{{dead link}}. Added 450{{dead link}}. Switched 1,167|url-status=deadto live. Switched 808|url-status=liveto dead. Added 4,158 archive URLs (4,158 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 28,000 URLs and updated 20,000
Done - this was a mountain of URLs, most needed fixing, and 2/3rds was able to move to a new URL via CDX inference mapping. -- GreenC 16:02, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
Per the TFD this template will need to be "unwound" with archive URLs added. Primefac (talk) 12:14, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
- Checked 3,310 pages and edited 3,310 pages. Converted 3,339 templates. Added 3,125 archive URLs (3,125 Wayback).
Done -- GreenC 01:52, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
- Awesome, thanks. Primefac (talk) 10:21, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
mahasz.hu
[edit]These Hungarian charts no longer work but most are at slagerlistak.hu. Most can be converted over to slagerlistak.hu/chart-name/year/week or slagerlistak.hu/archivum/eves-osszesitett-slagerlistak/chart-name/year with the following:
Weekly charts (year/week)
- Single Top 40: here to there for I Want to Know What Love Is
- Radio Top 40: here to there for You and I (Lady Gaga song)
- Albums Top 40: here to there for Wrecking Ball (Bruce Springsteen album)
Year-end
- Radio: here to here for Set Fire to the Rain
- Album: here to there for Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album)
- Editor's choice: here to there for Teenage Dream (Katy Perry song)
- Best selling: here to there for In the Zone
Broken:
I didn't include ~60 of them because they need manual adjustments. If I can't replace them, I'll make a new request. 270 Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:09, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 390 pages and edited 334 pages. Moved 380 links to a new URL: 380 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 7
{{dead link}}. Switched 60|url-status=deadto live. Added 3 archive URLs (3 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 2200 URLs
Done -- GreenC 03:49, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
- Which three didn't work? MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:56, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
From the logs:
This Boy's Fire----https://web.archive.org/web/20120219203200/http://www.mahasz.hu/ ---- fixbadstatus1.1 (old logbadstatus1) No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded----https://web.archive.org/web/20100826043127/http://www.mahasz.hu/ ---- fixbadstatus1.1 (old logbadstatus1) Édes méreg----https://web.archive.org/web/20051018090219/http://www.mahasz.hu/m/hu/arany_keres.php?EV=2005 ---- fixbadstatus3.3 (old barelink-modify)
haaretz.com
[edit]Many links seem to redirect to other links and some of them may have been dead at some point. For instance this from 2011 in Israel was marked dead way back in September 2011. It now 301's here. Thanks!
Just over 12000 articles. GrapesRock (talk) 11:18, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
- Perhaps the example was marked dead because the live redirect is a paywall, while the dead has a working archive. -- GreenC 00:39, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
- I did a dry run of the entire set, and almost all the links are of the type this ie. ending in 1.xxxxx .. these links were at one time not behind a paywall, and so are currently available at archive.org in full .. but most do not have archive.org links on Wikipedia. So if I moved the primary link to the new redirect here, we would no longer know what the archive.org link was for the old 1.xxx - the page becomes locked behind a paywall at the new link. I will instead treat all the 1.xxx as dead, so archive URLs are added, and the content remains visible. In this case upgrading to a live link is a step backwards. -- GreenC 17:45, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
- A common exception: when the url contains ".premium" (example), meaning the 1.xxx url was always paywalled and the archive.org version will also be paywalled. In these cases the url will be moved to the new live URL here, and no archive added. -- GreenC 18:44, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
- This solution had about a 2:1 ratio: for every 2 links that have a working archive, 1 link was moved to a live (paywalled) URL. -- GreenC 17:52, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
- A common exception: when the url contains ".premium" (example), meaning the 1.xxx url was always paywalled and the archive.org version will also be paywalled. In these cases the url will be moved to the new live URL here, and no archive added. -- GreenC 18:44, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
- I did a dry run of the entire set, and almost all the links are of the type this ie. ending in 1.xxxxx .. these links were at one time not behind a paywall, and so are currently available at archive.org in full .. but most do not have archive.org links on Wikipedia. So if I moved the primary link to the new redirect here, we would no longer know what the archive.org link was for the old 1.xxx - the page becomes locked behind a paywall at the new link. I will instead treat all the 1.xxx as dead, so archive URLs are added, and the content remains visible. In this case upgrading to a live link is a step backwards. -- GreenC 17:45, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Batch 00001-00100: Checked 100 pages and edited 67 pages. Moved 4 links to a new URL: 4 normal redirects, Added 1
{{dead link}}. Switched 18|url-status=liveto dead. Added 110 archive URLs (110 Wayback).
- Batch 00101-00200: Checked 100 pages and edited 82 pages. Moved 48 links to a new URL: 48 normal redirects, Added 1
{{dead link}}. Switched 6|url-status=deadto live. Switched 21|url-status=liveto dead. Added 81 archive URLs (81 Wayback).
- Batch 00201-01000: Checked 800 pages and edited 609 pages. Moved 355 links to a new URL: 347 normal redirects, 2 ruled mapped redirects, 6 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 3 soft-404s. Added 22
{{dead link}}. Switched 4|url-status=deadto live. Switched 151|url-status=liveto dead. Added 683 archive URLs (683 Wayback).
- Batch 01001-11968: Checked 10,968 pages and edited 8,393 pages. Moved 5,219 links to a new URL: 5,115 normal redirects, 10 ruled mapped redirects, 94 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 35 soft-404s. Removed 10
{{dead link}}. Added 149{{dead link}}. Switched 123|url-status=deadto live. Switched 1,597|url-status=liveto dead. Added 8,745 archive URLs (8,745 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 36,119 URLs and updated 23,100
Done -- GreenC 01:21, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
- Dear GreenC, I am confused. I have recently encountered a few of these bot edits (citing the present talk page discussion) and in all of them, the redirect on the haaretz website is live and the correct article. (and indeed: "paywalled" now: you need to make a free account to continue reading). I think something must have gone wrong. I have reverted one or more of these automated edits. If I should not have, please inform me. Slomo666 (talk) 14:01, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
- Despite the alleged exception for the premium articles, I have seen at least one .premium article that the bot did set to dead. This saga baffles me, and I just hope that articles accidentally being set to dead is the worst of it. Slomo666 (talk) 14:25, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
- Right it was intentional. Discussed above. Freewall, Paywall, etc.. they all have the same effect: The Wayback Machine can't save them. Had I switched it over to the live walled link, what happens in a few years when the link dies (it will): there will be no way to view the content again. There is no archive URL, because the Wayback Machine can't save walled pages. The way it was done, the old links are still available at the old archive URLs, they were saved at Wayback before Haaretz put up walls. We are lucky the Wayback captures exist. When the live walled links die in a few years, there will be nothing to save them from becoming permanent 404. -- GreenC 08:07, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
- No, what I am saying is that your bot set a bunch of already archived citation URL's from "live" to "dead" after the respective archive URL's (which were not inaccessible!) were already added to the citation template.
- I understand the bot cannot retroactively archive things that are no longer live, (or in this case: behind a registration-wall) but that is not what I am saying it should have done or what it did.
- If you want examples, look at this: I reverted your bot's edit, because all of those URL's, while they redirect to the new haaretz website, actually do link to a live version of the same articles, and there was thus no need to reset the "url-status=live" to "url-status=dead".
- I think this is problematic, because we generally do not want to set url-status to dead unless it actually is. I think the bot should not be doing what I described, and instead, only set, for those refs where the archive-link is already filled, but the new url is behind the wall, the 'url-access' to something. (in these examples, I set it to 'registration', because that was what it was, but I can imagine it may be difficult for the bot to tell the difference between 'limited', ' registration' and 'subscription')
- Slomo666 (talk) 15:51, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
- I had not really thought through all the permutations at play this was a complicated site with a lot of variation and edge cases. But I am also not too worried about it because I know from experience redirects are fragile and the first to go, those redirects to the live site will disappear sooner than later. Still, in the example you provided: would you prefer to go here or here? The first takes 99% of readers to a 0% readable page (signup required). The second takes 100% of readers to a 100% readable page (no signup required). Setting to dead will be problematic to haaretz owners, and those who have accounts on the website. It will be pragmatic for most everyone else. Had I done it the other way, it would have been problematic for the majority as they would be redirected to walled off content. You could say none of that matters only that dead is dead and live is live, but not sure I agree that's always in the best interest, and time will resolve it anyway. -- GreenC 06:57, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
- Personally, I prefer to go to a source that is available, of course. However, I assumed (and maybe I am wrong about this) that marking URL's that are not dead as dead was against one or more of our guidelines. I recall there being some resistance to expansion of the 'url-access-level' parameter, (I might be confusing it, and maybe it was a discussion on adding a new option to the url-status param) based on the idea that it is not up to wikipedia to censure sources for not being accessible freely. I do think we should have the ability to work into the template that a source link now redirects, but I think the current options ('deviated' and 'unfit') are really only for when it redirects to a harmful URL or a website that does not support the same content anymore. Is there a venue where I could ask about how this policy works? Teahouse maybe? Slomo666 (talk) 12:24, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
- I had not really thought through all the permutations at play this was a complicated site with a lot of variation and edge cases. But I am also not too worried about it because I know from experience redirects are fragile and the first to go, those redirects to the live site will disappear sooner than later. Still, in the example you provided: would you prefer to go here or here? The first takes 99% of readers to a 0% readable page (signup required). The second takes 100% of readers to a 100% readable page (no signup required). Setting to dead will be problematic to haaretz owners, and those who have accounts on the website. It will be pragmatic for most everyone else. Had I done it the other way, it would have been problematic for the majority as they would be redirected to walled off content. You could say none of that matters only that dead is dead and live is live, but not sure I agree that's always in the best interest, and time will resolve it anyway. -- GreenC 06:57, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
- Right it was intentional. Discussed above. Freewall, Paywall, etc.. they all have the same effect: The Wayback Machine can't save them. Had I switched it over to the live walled link, what happens in a few years when the link dies (it will): there will be no way to view the content again. There is no archive URL, because the Wayback Machine can't save walled pages. The way it was done, the old links are still available at the old archive URLs, they were saved at Wayback before Haaretz put up walls. We are lucky the Wayback captures exist. When the live walled links die in a few years, there will be nothing to save them from becoming permanent 404. -- GreenC 08:07, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
- Despite the alleged exception for the premium articles, I have seen at least one .premium article that the bot did set to dead. This saga baffles me, and I just hope that articles accidentally being set to dead is the worst of it. Slomo666 (talk) 14:25, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
archive.*.co.uk
[edit]A bunch of British newspaper archives changed their url schemes and now none of them link directly to the source and instead redirect to a page with all the articles from the relevant day. Since they all have small numbers of pages, I've been manually replacing marked dead links with alternative links. However, the corresponding IABot entries should be updated to mark these domains as dead I think? Thanks!
These are the ones that I've found so far; there's probably others, but these are the ones I could find with "insource:"co.uk" insource:"archive" insource:/archive\.[a-z0-9-]+\.co\.uk\/[0-9]{4}/"
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GrapesRock (talk) 11:22, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- GrapesRock, unlike the WP:JUDI process, the WaybackMedic process can not do batches of domains. Each domain has to be individually configured and processed. (There is bespoke work to catch soft-404s and redirect rules by monitoring logs, it's impossible to automate certain things safely.) I checked a couple and some redirect properly to the original article. I'm also not sure marking them dead in IABot is right. So, I'm not sure how to approach this. It's a bit much in quantity of domains, and low link count for each domain. -- GreenC 04:45, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
uk-sport-web.prod.oceanusorigin.com
[edit]Replace that unwieldy domain with skysports.com. For example this to this.
Around 70 pages. GrapesRock (talk) 17:14, 21 May 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 71 pages and edited 72 pages. Moved 99 links to a new URL: 99 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 48
{{dead link}}.
IABot DB
- Checked and updated about 300 URLs.
Done -- GreenC 04:56, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles
[edit]sigh… this widely used news aggregator website loves to kills its links in just few days. (1 
). Basically any source older than 7 days can be dead, it will almost certainly dead by one month.
Note I proposed of a bot that automatically archive this sorts of website when added at the WP:IDEALAB. See Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Bot for automatic source rescue Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 06:16, 23 May 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 1,651 pages and edited 1,007 pages. Added 260
{{dead link}}. Switched 298|url-status=liveto dead. Added 1,125 archive URLs (1,125 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Updated 5,728 links
Done -- GreenC 06:11, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
post-gazette.com
[edit]I requested an archive check on some of these links a few months ago. Recently, found a broken magazine article by them for Midnight Ramble (film). I think all articles by this newspaper should be checked now. ~8700. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:08, 23 May 2026 (UTC)
- This domain certainly needed help. It works, only moves slow due to extra network steps to verify the links. -- GreenC 21:16, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 8,713 pages and edited 5,032 pages. Moved 3,178 links to a new URL: 22 normal redirects, 2,587 ruled mapped redirects, 569 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 906 soft-404s. Removed 3
{{dead link}}. Added 271{{dead link}}. Switched 117|url-status=deadto live. Switched 566|url-status=liveto dead. Added 3,802 archive URLs (3,802 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 15,125 and updated 6,837 URLs
Done -- GreenC 19:19, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
mixonline.com
[edit]This broken link is now here for Flow (Terence Blanchard album). Unfortunately, it does not redirect. I would like to request a full check. 1290. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:13, 23 May 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 1,305 pages and edited 270 pages. Moved 244 links to a new URL: 18 normal redirects, 220 ruled mapped redirects, 6 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 7 soft-404s. Added 3
{{dead link}}. Switched 21|url-status=deadto live. Switched 1|url-status=liveto dead. Added 71 archive URLs (71 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 1,710 and updated 780 URLs
Done -- GreenC 14:57, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
catholicnewsagency.com
[edit]Links to individual Catholic News Agency articles now all redirect to the home page https://www.ewtnnews.com/ (example here), following EWTN's decision to redirect the Catholic News Agency URLs to the new EWTN News website.
Could you please fix this? Veverve (talk) 09:33, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
- This could have been a temporary under construction as the example now redirects correctly. But I'll run the domain through and see what they might have missed, sites often drop things during a move. -- GreenC 15:12, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 2,387 pages and edited 2,355 pages. Moved 3,300 links to a new URL: 3,211 normal redirects, 73 ruled mapped redirects, 16 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 268 soft-404s. Removed 1
{{dead link}}. Added 10{{dead link}}. Switched 91|url-status=deadto live. Switched 39|url-status=liveto dead. Added 184 archive URLs (184 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 5.048 and updated 2,221 URLs
Done -- GreenC 20:10, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
justice.gov/usao-dc/
[edit]Department of Justice Press Releases deleted by the Trump Administration related to January 6 riots. -- GreenC 20:47, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
Not done The links on enwiki appear to still work (unrelated to 1/6) -- GreenC 23:37, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
wtvq.com
[edit]Website of WTVQ-DT, a local TV station in Kentucky. Domain is parked and the content on it is not loading, likely because the station has been sold. About 160 pages. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 02:32, 26 May 2026 (UTC)
- If I pick a few at random they seem to work. Perhaps it was temporary? Neils51 (talk) 21:09, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
Not done - spot checked links still work. -- GreenC 23:39, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
philrobson.net
[edit]Website of Phil_Robson, a Jazz musician, loads a Korean blog. While I don't read Korean, it seems to have nothing to do with Phil, Jazz, or even Music. He has another website instead: https://www.philrobsonmusic.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bevande (talk • contribs) 06:45, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
Not done - links still work -- GreenC 23:40, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
observationdeck.io9.com
[edit]http://observationdeck.io9.com/ is completely dead (see link). Gonnym (talk) 16:49, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 25 pages and edited 10 pages. Added 1
{{dead link}}. Switched 7|url-status=liveto dead.
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 31 links
Done -- GreenC 23:55, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
tv.com
[edit]http://www.tv.com is completely dead. (see link). Gonnym (talk) 16:59, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
- TV.com went offline in 2021. First time reported here. Appears to have a lot of dead links. -- GreenC 00:19, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- The archives also aren't loading for some reason (see link). Gonnym (talk) 17:07, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
- That is a technical error in Wayback replay. It's URLs in the /shows path eg. - I will add archives in the hopes archive.org finds and fixes the error with time, better than a dead link. -- GreenC 00:19, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 4,676 pages and edited 2,226 pages. Added 709
{{dead link}}. Switched 494|url-status=liveto dead. Added 1,967 archive URLs (1,967 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 26,297 URLs
Done -- GreenC 22:13, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
brokenpencil.com
[edit]brokenpencil.com- 48
Broken Pencil shutdown in 2024; all of the website's links prompt a sign in that if declined goes to a 401 Authorization Required. Haven't done an in-depth check but ProQuest seems to have some of the magazine saved if the Wayback doesn't (or if the Wayback has saved a subscription needed page). For example, https://brokenpencil.com/article/journeys-on-paper-jeeyon-shim-and-the-personal-resonance-of-tabletop-rpgs/ can be found at ProQuest 3108820147. Sariel Xilo (talk) 17:44, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
- At this writing (over 1½ months on), domain-parked at BigScoots.com. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 12:10, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 48 pages and edited 38 pages. Switched 4
|url-status=liveto dead. Added 37 archive URLs (37 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 66 URLs
Done -- GreenC 22:28, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
monumentaustralia.org.au
[edit]Has been usurped by a gaming website.
It appears that http://monumentaustralia.org still works, and the pages I tested follow the same url format, so having the bot remove the .au should fix things. In solidarity, nil nz 04:35, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 1,097 pages and edited 1,088 pages. Moved 1,421 links to a new URL: 1,421 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 2
{{dead link}}. Switched 18|url-status=deadto live. Switched 1|url-status=liveto dead. Added 1 archive URLs (1 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 1,378 links
Done -- GreenC 03:00, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
- Appreciated! In solidarity, nil nz 03:14, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
thenortheasttoday.com
[edit]Found this soft 404 to the main page at Lai Haraoba. Looking around their website, only some of the old articles are there. I think a full check is needed. ~240. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:21, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 246 pages and edited 101 pages. Moved 65 links to a new URL: 6 normal redirects, 51 ruled mapped redirects, 8 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 48 soft-404s. Removed 5
{{dead link}}. Added 37{{dead link}}. Switched 25|url-status=deadto live. Added 6 archive URLs (6 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 313 links and updated 79
Done -- GreenC 03:40, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
sec.state.ma.us/ele/
[edit]State of Massachusetts Election pages
- https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eledist/reps11idx.htm -> https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/elections/voting-information/district/2022-representative.htm (157 pages)
- https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eledist/sen11idx.htm -> https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/elections/voting-information/district/2022-senatorial.htm (34 pages)
- Any other URL on this domain that redirects to https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/elections/elections-and-voting.htm is effectively soft 404 and should be treated as if it were dead. I spot checked a few other patterns that used this domain and only the election division seems to be the one using this soft 404 pattern; other parts of the website hard 404 properly.
* Pppery * (alt) in solidarity 23:28, 10 June 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Pass 1: Checked 381 pages and edited 348 pages. Moved 263 links to a new URL: 246 ruled mapped redirects, 17 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 28 soft-404s. Added 1
{{dead link}}. Switched 9|url-status=deadto live. Switched 8|url-status=liveto dead. Added 132 archive URLs (132 Wayback). - Pass 2: Checked 381 pages and edited 110 pages. Moved 10 links to a new URL: 10 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 131 soft-404s. Added 2
{{dead link}}. Switched 15|url-status=liveto dead. Added 117 archive URLs (117 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Pass 1:
Checked 163 and updated 91 links - Pass 2: Checked and updated 163 links
- Looks like you missed some. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1364370763 changed a HTTP to HTTPs but the HTTPS page is still soft 404. * Pppery * in solidarity 04:36, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
- Ah thanks for checking. Looks like the bot was policy blocked (403) and it fell back to another technique that "worked", but the method failed to return the redirect URL _elections-and-voting.htm - It all looked OK because it was making edits with status 200 URLs, but they were just http->https. I should have looked more carefully. I'll try again with a different method to get past the 403 and false redirect info. -- GreenC 20:06, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
- Done - better in Pass 2 with headless browser. -- GreenC 04:00, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- Ah thanks for checking. Looks like the bot was policy blocked (403) and it fell back to another technique that "worked", but the method failed to return the redirect URL _elections-and-voting.htm - It all looked OK because it was making edits with status 200 URLs, but they were just http->https. I should have looked more carefully. I'll try again with a different method to get past the 403 and false redirect info. -- GreenC 20:06, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
tvguide.com
[edit]Links lead to page not found, see this example. For that example I've found this:
- https://www.tvguide.com/News/Hot-List-2013-Agents-SHIELD-1072981.aspx -> https://www.tvguide.com/news/Hot-List-2013-Agents-SHIELD-1072981/
but couldn't find one for
Gonnym (talk) 10:47, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Gonnym: I think this change is a regression: live vs. archive. I could process the 16,000 pages looking for cites that end in .aspx that do not have an archive URL available and try to switch those, but I think after going through all those gates it might end up a lot of effort for little return. -- GreenC 04:14, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
- Actually more of these then I thought. Will do ie. cites that end in .aspx, and that do not have an archive URL available, switch to the live URL, otherwise keep/add the better archive version. -- GreenC 04:52, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Batch 00001-03000: Checked 3,000 pages and edited 1,573 pages. Moved 223 links to a new URL: 130 normal redirects, 93 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 126 soft-404s. Removed 1
{{dead link}}. Added 91{{dead link}}. Switched 11|url-status=deadto live. Switched 207|url-status=liveto dead. Added 1,629 archive URLs (1,629 Wayback).
- Batch 03001-09000: Checked 6,000 pages and edited 3,064 pages. Moved 475 links to a new URL: 294 normal redirects, 181 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 269 soft-404s. Added 136
{{dead link}}. Switched 19|url-status=deadto live. Switched 444|url-status=liveto dead. Added 2,914 archive URLs (2,914 Wayback).
- Batch 09001-17201: Checked 8,201 pages and edited 4,266 pages. Moved 621 links to a new URL: 373 normal redirects, 248 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 261 soft-404s. Added 186
{{dead link}}. Switched 33|url-status=deadto live. Switched 594|url-status=liveto dead. Added 4,210 archive URLs (4,210 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 34,430 links
Done -- GreenC 20:26, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
tvline.com
[edit]- http://tvline.com/2012/11/27/shield-tv-show-casts-brett-dalton/ leads to the main page (couldn't find the page in the archives)
- http://tvline.com/2014/02/20/marvels-agents-of-shield-casting-spoilers-scandal-parenthood/ redirects to https://www.tvline.com/casting-news/marvels-agents-of-shield-casting-spoilers-scandal-parenthood-494548/
Gonnym (talk) 10:53, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 7,035 pages and edited 6,118 pages. Moved 10,628 links to a new URL: 8,117 normal redirects, 2,335 ruled mapped redirects, 176 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 2,113 soft-404s. Removed 1
{{dead link}}. Added 28{{dead link}}. Switched 192|url-status=deadto live. Switched 826|url-status=liveto dead. Added 968 archive URLs (968 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 14,893 URLs and updated 5,247
Done -- GreenC 05:15, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
thejc.com
[edit]Found that this redirects here for Tom Hardy. However, this doesn't redirect to the new URL here for Manchester Reform Synagogue. I think the whole website should be checked just in case. ~3000. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:41, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 3,072 pages and edited 2,373 pages. Moved 2,647 links to a new URL: 2,507 normal redirects, 74 ruled mapped redirects, 66 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 741 soft-404s. Removed 1
{{dead link}}. Added 29{{dead link}}. Switched 82|url-status=deadto live. Switched 133|url-status=liveto dead. Added 868 archive URLs (868 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 5,101 URLs and updated 1,774
Done -- GreenC 03:06, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
mojim.com
[edit]mojim.com (魔鏡歌詞網, "Magic Mirror Lyrics") was a major Taiwanese Chinese-language lyrics database. The domain went offline c. 2023–2024 and is now dead (NXDOMAIN/parked). A community recovery archive at mojimlyrics.com preserves the same content at matching paths; the site is live and confirmed operational.
~82 confirmed replaceable links across ~66 en.wiki articles. All verified live. URLs wrapped in to avoid spam-filter triggering — operators can verify each before applying.
Previously filed at Wikipedia:Bot requests on 15 June 2026 by User:~2026-35133-34 and redirected here by Qwerfjkltalk + Primefac (20 June 2026).
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Group B — Artist-page links (tw.mojim.com → mojimlyrics.com/artist/…):
Group C — http:// links (mojim.com without subdomain):
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User:~2026-35133-34 ~2026-36521-46 (talk) 04:30, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
Not done - was already done by the requester. -- GreenC 03:13, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
mtnmath.com
[edit]I'm not entirely sure how this works. But I've observed that mtnmath.com seems to have been linking to weird places lately, and the last time it worked well was 2021. Since then it has linked to weird spam, and more recently linked to weird domains that show Cloudflare errors.
It was present on Ordinal arithmetic until I pointed it out to someone, but I now see the same domain linked on non-Main namespaces on the English Wikipedia and still the same link on other language Wikipedias.
SgeoTC 22:34, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
Not done - links exist on two pages - adjust as needed. -- GreenC 03:16, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
screen4screen.com
[edit]The website which once also served as a database for films and had their release dates has dropped that aspect completely, leaving hundreds of error 404s. So all S4S links may be tagged as dead. In fact, their archive.today archives may also be replaced with Wayback links per WP:ARCHIVETODAY. Kailash29792 (talk) 06:34, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
- Job in two passes. Pass 1 removes archive.today links. Pass 2 adds archive.org links. -- GreenC 04:25, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Pass 1: Checked 777 pages and edited 105 pages. Removed 104 archive.today URLs.
- Pass 2: Checked 777 pages and edited 749 pages. Added 3
{{dead link}}. Switched 624|url-status=liveto dead. Added 159 archive URLs (159 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 1,014 URLs
Done -- GreenC 15:26, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
thestandard.com.ph
[edit]The Standard rebranded to Manila Standard back in 2016, with the website "thestandard.com.ph" moving to "manilastandard.net" sometime later. All news articles from before the domain change are preserved under the new URL. For example, this article is now located here. MarcusAbacus (talk) 10:12, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- The new site "manilastandard.net" is protected by a bot-challenge system I have not encountered before. With some work I was able to get through, and added the new algorithm to a growing toolchest. -- GreenC 20:01, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 231 pages and edited 229 pages. Moved 285 links to a new URL: 17 normal redirects, 268 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 1
{{dead link}}. Switched 151|url-status=deadto live.
IABot DB
- Updated 337 URLs
Done -- GreenC 20:38, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
onesports.ph
[edit]The "onesports.ph" website was redesigned sometime in mid-March 2026 and had the side effect of removing the authors from any article made before the redesign. Fortunately, all articles after the redesign are authored so it is more of a bug than anything suspicious.
Still, I think it would be useful if every article from before the redesign is archived, since a lot of them are authored. For a more specific timeframe, the earliest authored articles I could find after the redesign were from March 15, 2026, so anything before that will likely need to be archived. MarcusAbacus (talk) 14:29, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
- MarcusAbacus, I don't understand the request. Can you provide some examples? Thanks. -- GreenC 20:40, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Let's take this article announcing a recent major signing, published on January 1, 2026. Accessing the article now will have a "by One Sports" tag. Using the Internet Archive, accessing the same article will have an author attached, Kiko Demigillo. For an earlier example, this article from February 15, 2024, when put through the Archive, is found to be made by Ohmer Bautista. The earliest articles that weren't affected by the redesign date back to March 15, 2026, such as this article, which still has the author attached. MarcusAbacus (talk) 01:56, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- This is a fuzzy situation. With Eya Laure live page: 1. Missing author in the header section. 2. Includes an embedded video 3. Good quality formatting 4. Has the author in the footer. With the archive version: 1. Includes author in header section. 2. Missing embedded video. 3. Low quality formatting 4. Has author in the footer. .. so both pages have the author in the footer. The main problem is the missing video, and lower quality formatting in the archive. I am inclined not to move it around without a clear improvement. -- GreenC 03:45, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Let's take this article announcing a recent major signing, published on January 1, 2026. Accessing the article now will have a "by One Sports" tag. Using the Internet Archive, accessing the same article will have an author attached, Kiko Demigillo. For an earlier example, this article from February 15, 2024, when put through the Archive, is found to be made by Ohmer Bautista. The earliest articles that weren't affected by the redesign date back to March 15, 2026, such as this article, which still has the author attached. MarcusAbacus (talk) 01:56, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
monthlyreview.org
[edit]Majority of these redirect to new URLs, like this to that for List of ghost towns in Pennsylvania. However, this one is broken at Lyndall Urwick as it redirects to search results. ~240. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 541 pages and edited 501 pages. Moved 578 links to a new URL: 278 normal redirects, 190 ruled mapped redirects, 110 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 28 soft-404s. Added 2
{{dead link}}. Switched 23|url-status=deadto live. Switched 3|url-status=liveto dead. Added 61 archive URLs (61 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 992 URLs and updated 342
Done -- GreenC 03:25, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
nhl.com
[edit]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=deadto live. Switched 656|url-status=liveto 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=deadto live. Switched 849|url-status=liveto 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=deadto live. Switched 1,070|url-status=liveto 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}}
- Redid a set after a code fix - added archive URLs previously marked with
- 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=deadto live. Added 1 archive URLs (1 Wayback).- Redid some pages that missed a code update related to recap links (per Discussion below)
IABot DB
- Checked 116,787 URLs and updated 61,241
Discussion
[edit]- 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
[edit]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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
Enwiki
- Checked 4,512 pages and edited 3,796 pages. Moved 3,716 links to a new URL: 30 normal redirects, 1,694 ruled mapped redirects, 1,992 inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 2,542 soft-404s. Removed 5
{{dead link}}. Added 17{{dead link}}. Switched 132|url-status=deadto live. Switched 38|url-status=liveto dead. Added 975 archive URLs (975 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 6,562 URLs and updated 5,916
Done -- GreenC 15:46, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
roman-emperors.org
[edit]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
- Checked 436 pages and edited 434 pages. Moved 730 links to a new URL: 2 normal redirects, 727 ruled mapped redirects, 1 ghost mapped redirects, Switched 129
|url-status=deadto live.
IABot DB
- Checked 408 URLs, switched to permadead, added to WP:JUDI
Done -- GreenC 17:31, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
MySwar
[edit]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
[edit]It has been usurped. Jerod Lycett (talk) 00:12, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
- ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. -- GreenC 17:57, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
iffhs.com
[edit]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:
- old : https://iffhs.com/index.php/posts/954
- new: https://iffhs.com/en/news/iffhs-best-man-player-world-of-the-decade-2011-2020-954
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
- Checked 801 pages and edited 788 pages. Moved 2,207 links to a new URL: 38 normal redirects, 2,169 ruled mapped redirects, Switched 40
|url-status=deadto live.
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 1,326 URLs
Done -- GreenC 02:38, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
bac-lac.gc.ca/rpm
[edit]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
- Checked 5,152 pages and edited 5,142 pages. Moved 9,889 links to a new URL: 9,889 ruled mapped redirects, Removed 3
{{dead link}}. Added 251{{dead link}}. Switched 108|url-status=deadto live. Switched 26|url-status=liveto dead. Added 1,057 archive URLs (1,057 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 10,008 URLs
Done -- GreenC 02:57, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
statsnz.maps.arcgis.com/webappviewer
[edit]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
- Checked 675 pages and edited 675 pages. Moved 677 links to a new URL: 677 ruled mapped redirects
IABot DB
- IABot doesn't support URLs moves, and there is no viable archive link, so I set it to permalive which is a directive to skip.
Done -- GreenC 03:36, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
magic.wizards.com
[edit]magic.wizards.com- 217
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
- Checked 222 pages and edited 139 pages. Moved 162 links to a new URL: 132 normal redirects, 29 ruled mapped redirects, 1 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 65 soft-404s. Added 12
{{dead link}}. Switched 3|url-status=deadto live. Switched 106|url-status=liveto dead. Added 456 archive URLs (456 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 1,309 URLs and updated 797
Done -- GreenC 04:22, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
barbadosadvocate.com
[edit]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=liveto 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=deadto live.
IABot DB
- Checked and update 395 URLs, changed to Permadead
Done -- GreenC 22:49, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Unresolved
[edit]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
[edit]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
- Checked 715 pages and edited 15 pages. Moved 6 links to a new URL: 6 ruled mapped redirects. Switched 5
|url-status=deadto live.
Done -- GreenC 06:04, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
theahl.com
[edit]this moved here DiophantineEquation (talk) 08:57, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 1,420 pages and edited 1,049 pages. Moved 2,479 links to a new URL: 114 normal redirects, 2,310 ruled mapped redirects, 55 inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 136 soft-404s. Removed 16
{{dead link}}. Added 6{{dead link}}. Switched 527|url-status=deadto live. Switched 8|url-status=liveto dead. Added 69 archive URLs (69 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 4,061 URLs and updated 2,876
Done -- GreenC 22:48, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
thehockeynews.com
[edit]this moved to here DiophantineEquation (talk) 09:06, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 2,551 pages and edited 1,470 pages. Moved 1,792 links to a new URL: 1,296 normal redirects, 496 ruled mapped redirects, Made live 14 URLs. Resolved 2 soft-404s. Added 6
{{dead link}}. Switched 3|url-status=liveto dead. Added 139 archive URLs (139 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 4,623 URLs and updated 1,821
Done -- GreenC 03:27, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
bestsellery.zpav.pl
[edit]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
- Checked 1,012 pages and edited 533 pages. Added 226
{{dead link}}. Switched 318|url-status=liveto dead. Added 880 archive URLs (880 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 2,707 URLs; set Permadead
Done -- GreenC 21:48, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
bookthevote.org
[edit]Usurped by online gambling. EatingCarBatteries (contribs | talk) 06:35, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch -- GreenC 02:43, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
marshallnewsmessenger.com
[edit]DiophantineEquation (talk) 08:50, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 68 pages and edited 63 pages. Moved 68 links to a new URL: 3 normal redirects, 65 ruled mapped redirects, Added 3
{{dead link}}. Switched 5|url-status=deadto live. Added 6 archive URLs (6 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 87 and updated 78
Done -- GreenC 23:27, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
thecitizen.co.tz
[edit]DiophantineEquation (talk) 09:49, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 1,006 pages and edited 351 pages. Moved 299 links to a new URL: 9 normal redirects, 284 ruled mapped redirects, 6 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 46 soft-404s. Removed 3
{{dead link}}. Added 22{{dead link}}. Switched 90|url-status=deadto live. Switched 22|url-status=liveto dead. Added 179 archive URLs (179 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 1,722 URLs and updated 655
Done -- GreenC 06:05, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
findarticles.com
[edit]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)
- 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=usurpedor{{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=
- Cleanup: conversion of
IABot DB
- Updated 21,318 URLs with new archives; set global status to Permadead
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
[edit]DiophantineEquation (talk) 07:43, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
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=deadto live. Switched 53|url-status=liveto 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=deadto live. Switched 108|url-status=liveto dead. Added 316 archive URLs (316 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 16,388 URLs and updated 4,211
Done -- GreenC 23:45, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
cleo.com.sg
[edit]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)
- ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. 15 pages -- GreenC 03:31, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
palmbeachpost.com
[edit]DiophantineEquation (talk) 21:21, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
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=deadto live. Switched 117|url-status=liveto 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=deadto live. Switched 141|url-status=liveto dead. Added 966 archive URLs (966 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 3,141 URLs
Done -- GreenC 05:42, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
- @GreenC: I fixed one incorrect result here. Why are you tagging these live articles as deadlinks when the company just made the articles require subscription? ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 18:00, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
- I second this. Same with Cayden Daughtry. Seems a flaw. Centurion Seraph (talk) 04:38, 19 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
[edit]this moved to here which then moved to here
DiophantineEquation (talk) 21:39, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Can't move English to Dutch. But could add archive URLs preserving the old English. -- GreenC 05:49, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 492 pages and edited 214 pages. Switched 21
|url-status=deadto live. Switched 78|url-status=liveto dead. Added 159 archive URLs (159 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked and updated 2,462 URLs
Done -- GreenC 14:40, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
tsingapore.com
[edit]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)
- ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. 7 pages -- GreenC 03:33, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
huskers.com
[edit]this moved here and this moved here DiophantineEquation (talk) 06:34, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 1,075 pages and edited 621 pages. Moved 219 links to a new URL: 145 normal redirects, 18 ruled mapped redirects, 56 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 26 soft-404s. Removed 5
{{dead link}}. Added 23{{dead link}}. Switched 93|url-status=deadto live. Switched 12|url-status=liveto dead. Added 686 archive URLs (686 Wayback).
IABot Bot
- Checked and updated 1,396 URLs
Done -- GreenC 07:54, 19 August 2026 (UTC)
rehydrate.org
[edit]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)
- ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. 11 pages -- GreenC 03:35, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
randa.org
[edit]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
- Checked 196 pages and edited 99 pages. Moved 6 links to a new URL: 1 normal redirects, 5 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 8 soft-404s. Added 6
{{dead link}}. Switched 25|url-status=liveto dead. Added 85 archive URLs (85 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 382 URLs and updated 322
Done -- GreenC 19:20, 19 August 2026 (UTC)
pen.org/page.php
[edit]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
- Checked 88 pages and edited 6 pages. Switched 1
|url-status=liveto dead. Added 4 archive URLs (4 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Updated 122 URLs
Done -- GreenC 19:41, 19 August 2026 (UTC)
tribuneonlineng.com
[edit]This site has a mixture of links that can be changed to new URLs and those that are broken.
- URL changes: Links with numeric id don't work, like this one at University of Benin (Nigeria). However, if it's changed to this URL format, it redirects to the current URL here.
- Broken: This one is broken at Ideato South. I did not find a new URL.
I think a full check should be done. ~2k. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:55, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
Enwiki
- Checked 2,033 pages and edited 223 pages. Moved 199 links to a new URL: 64 normal redirects, 130 ruled mapped redirects, 5 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 165 soft-404s. Removed 1
{{dead link}}. Added 13{{dead link}}. Switched 25|url-status=deadto live. Added 16 archive URLs (16 Wayback).
IABot DB
- Checked 3,095 URLs and updated 204
Done -- GreenC 01:04, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
outlookindia.com
[edit]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)
latinbeatmagazine.com
[edit]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)
irishcharts.ie
[edit]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)