Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2020/December

Mammal Species of the World; http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/

There are about 170 dead links: https://linksearch.toolforge.org/linksearch.fcgi?limit=250&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bucknell.edu%2Fmsw3%2F%25&namespace=0&associated=0&submit=1&lang=en&wiki=en.wikipedia Type of dead links: http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=11100113 or http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?s=y&id=11100113 New form of the links: https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=11100113 The ID stays the same. Salzmandel (talk) 00:15, 5 December 2020 (UTC) Some of them are archived Salzmandel (talk) 00:19, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Results:

• Converted 245 URLs [1]
• Removed 31 archives [2][3][4]
• Added 1 archive [5]
• Converted 2 from bare to square [6] (external link section)
• All done.

@Salzmandel: if you see any problems let me know. -- GreenC 03:42, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

I see a problem it missed cases like http://www.bucknell.edu/MSW3/browse.asp?s=y&id=13802207 because of the capital MSW3. -- GreenC 03:49, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Fixed.[7] -- GreenC 03:57, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. The examples look fine for me, but I can't see the whole list. @GreenC: For the other language versions of Wikipedia I have to ask there? Salzmandel (talk) 11:02, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Yes, unfortunately WaybackMedic (the tool used for this) is not internationalized for other languages. There was someone else doing this kind of work on dewiki, but I no longer remember their name, they were reachable via the bot requests forum at dewiki, but it was probably 2 years ago that I last saw them. -- GreenC 13:34, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I will make a request on dewiki Salzmandel (talk) 18:19, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

www.kancoll.org

Hi,
The registration for www.kancoll.org appears to have lapsed in the last couple of days, and links to this site are now serving up spam and malware. There are references to this site in around 50 WP articles. Is this sufficient alert to have these links converted to archive pointers? Thanks, NapoliRoma (talk) 22:32, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Results:

• Added 427 archive URLs in 359 articles.

@NapoliRoma: thanks for the quick report about a malware/spam site. If you see any problems let me know. -- GreenC 00:31, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

scifan.com

I noticed a link on David Eddings, linking to scifan.com, is now a spam pill-selling website. From a quick google there are about 400 links to scifan.com, although it looks like some are already linked to the wayback machine. Anyone with more skips than me could look into updating / fixing them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.173.174.153 (talk • contribs)

Results:

• Add about 70 new archive URLs
• Converted 11 to |url-status=unfit
• 5 instances of {{webarchive}} which can't be |unfit=. List on request.
• Domain set |blacklisted= in IABot

-- GreenC 19:00, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

housingnyc.com domain is taken over

Cited in Rent control in New York, the housingnyc.com domain was originally the policy website of NYC but has been abandoned. I have manually changed the links in that article and referred here from Teahouse to report it in case any other articles or pages use it. EdLeMa (talk) 02:04, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Fixed the few by hand. Set domain to global blacklist in IABot. Thanks. -- GreenC 19:16, 14 December 2020 (UTC)