Wikipedia talk:Link rot/URL change requests

Notify

User:Lustiger seth - notifying the existence of this new page. If there is something similar on dewiki let me know, I'll try to find a way to monitor it. -- GreenC 17:46, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi user:GreenC!

I'm not 100% sure, but I guess, we just have a general bot request page w:de:Wikipedia:Bots/Anfragen. -- seth (talk) 22:21, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

what to do if domain name expired recently

Baramba, India contains link which expired a month ago. should i make request here or should i wait for another couple of months, and then report here? <_> jindam, vani (talk) 07:20, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

articles.*

Hi User:Helpful Raccoon, starting on the articles.* set. The previous code is mostly a drop-in replacement except for some specific strings that need to be changed for each one and checking for site-specific soft-404s.

I noticed there might be other sites that use whatever software is generating these patterns. This search shows all URLs with "articles.*" and containing "/keyword/" in the URL. That is a good indicator. The URLs with "/keyword/" are themselves soft-404 and can't be converted, but it suggests there are other URLs that could be converted. I notice a lot of Latimes and Times of India, both sites I worked on recently using a different approach (and are very large). There are others like the Baltimore Sun etc.. if you want, let me know if you see anything worthwhile pursuing. -- GreenC 15:30, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

@GreenC, I saw you listed some additional sites. I also found articles.boston.com, articles.herald-mail.com, articles.businessinsider.com, articles.dailypilot.com (owned by LATimes), plus many sites with relatively few links. I think the businessinsider.com and dailypilot.com articles are still live, but businessinsider.com has a paywall and the dailypilot.com articles redirect to latimes and don't appear to have easy conversion rules. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 22:13, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Helpful Raccoon : thanks added those to Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests#articles.newspaper.com. -- GreenC 16:34, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

@GreenC: The articles in articles.boston.com and articles.herald-mail.com also seem to be completely dead. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 17:46, 30 September 2024 (UTC)