Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests

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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 House
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Agriculture
• USAID
• National Park Service
• worker.gov
• Department of Labor
• U.S. Agency for Global Media - usagm.gov
• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (United States) - fmcs.gov
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - wilsoncenter.org
• Institute of Museum and Library Services - imls.gov
• Community Development Financial Institutions Fund - cdfifund.gov
• Minority Business Development Agency - mbda.gov
• Department of Transportation - dot.gov - includes 11 agencies: FAA, FHWA, FMCSA, FRA, FTA, GLS, MARAD, NHTSA, OIG, OST, PHMSA
• Environmental Protection Agency - epa.gov
• Department 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 Force
• Army
• Navy
• Marine Corps

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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.wv.gov that were created during Jim Justice's tenure that were deleted whenever Patrick Morrisey took office. I tried to summon InternetArchiveBot (IABOT) but had problems with Oauth.

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)

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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)

All the links I've checked seem to redirect to the home page of bostonglobe.com. Not sure if there's a redirect scheme GrapesRock (talk) 12:25, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

There are 1,400 and date to 20+ years ago. Spot checking title searches don't find any matches. -- GreenC 23:08, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Changing www to archive repaired more than half: Special:Diff/1323438663/1327390110 -- GreenC 03:37, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 1,479 pages and edited 853 pages. Moved 576 links to a new URL: 576 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 382 soft-404s. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 6 {{dead link}}. Switched 39 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 40 |url-status=live to dead. Added 258 archive URLs (254 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked and updated 2,057 urls

 Done -- GreenC 08:16, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

I know how to repair broken {{TCMDb}} links to archive.org copies but I do not know the software needed to do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&action=edit&oldid=1326524026 copied from archive:

{TCMdb} https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/913841|41847/Dwain-Esper/

now redirect to https://www.tcm.com/

but they all say "powered by AFI"

so

https://catalog.afi.com/Person/41847-Dwain-Esper

exists

so, for all https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/*

there is a https://catalog.afi.com/*

Piñanana (talk) 15:47, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Piñanana. What is your question about Wikipedia? ColinFine (talk) 16:16, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Piñanana I think the question here is whether a bot can change the tcmdb template so that instead of hitting a redirect at tcm, that it goes to the page at catalog.afi.com . A note has been added to Template talk:TCMDb title about something that may be similar, but I am not sure.Naraht (talk) 18:30, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Nardog and Jonesey95 are the most recent editors on the template and may be able to help.Naraht (talk) 18:32, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, the TCMdb family of templates are hopelessly broken. I have tried to contact TCM a couple of times for help, but I have never received a response. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:30, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Also Template:Screenonline name Template:Screenonline title Template:Screenonline TV title:

https://www.screenonline.org.uk/ is offline since August 29, 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20250829200700/https://www.screenonline.org.uk/

but frequently archived since 2004, most recent is likely the best choice

thus, for: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/525318/index.html

https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/525318/index.html

Piñanana (talk) 18:24, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Template:TCMDb name, Template:TCMDb title

for https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/87065%7C10493/Alfred-Hitchcock :

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/87065%7C10493/Alfred-Hitchcock

which gives the first https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/87065%7C10493/Alfred-Hitchcock archived in 2024

https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/87065%7C10493/Alfred-Hitchcock

yields: https://www.tcm.com/unavailable

for https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/30594/the-birds

& https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/30594/The-Birds/ :

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/30594/the-birds

https://web.archive.org/web/20250427134938/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/30594/The-Birds/

13:49:38 April 27, 2025 Got an HTTP 302 response at crawl time...Redirecting to...https://www.tcm.com/unavailable

thus adding a prefix of "https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000/" to the current values of Template:TCMDb name and Template:TCMDb title seems a workable repair

Piñanana (talk) 19:19, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

{{tcmdb title|id=515251|Piccadilly }}

Piccadilly at the TCM Movie Database (archived version)

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/515251/enwp fails

https://web.archive.org/web/20250610175444/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/515251/enwp

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/515251/Piccadilly works

https://web.archive.org/web/20210924010612/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/515251/piccadilly/ is the most recent workable archiving

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/191988%7C57782/wp

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/191988|57782/*

https://web.archive.org/web/20110827090049/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/191988%7C57782/Gene-Tierney/

Piñanana (talk) 03:50, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (technical):

Try WP:Link rot/URL change requests. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:49, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Piñanana, you have reached the right person/place to do this kind of work. Probably the easiest will be to convert the templates to normal archive URLs.

For example:

• {{TCMDb name |87065%7C10493 |Alfred Hitchcock}}
• Alfred Hitchcock at the TCM Movie Database

Becomes:

• *[https://web.archive.org/web/20201014145243/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/87065|10493/wp#overview Alfred Hitchcock] at the [[Turner Classic Movies|TCM Movie Database]] (archived)
• Alfred Hitchcock at the TCM Movie Database (archived)

Then deprecate the template once it's cleared out. There is no one-size-fits-all solution that makes keeping the template possible, each URL will have its own requirements with snapshot date and URL formatting. -- GreenC 22:39, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@GreenC: per a further discussion at WT:FILM here, there is consensus to just outright remove the TCM database template and replace it (if needed) with {{AFI film}} since that's where the data is stemming from. I don't know if the archived pages are of any use to TCM if all of its data was pulled from AFI anyways. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:38, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Favre1fan93: According to the AFI template, step 1 is "Search AFI Catalog for the film title you want". There is no way to automate. I can't manually search thousands of films for the AFI number. Also TCM is not only films also people. The best I can do is replace existing TCM templates with an archive URL, which I recommend regardless of other efforts to replace it with AFI, which may or may not ever happen (in part or whole) due the manual efforts involved. -- GreenC 16:46, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

I think the thought process would be if the AFI template already exists alongside the TCMd one, we can outright remove. Otherwise, the process you suggested would suffice. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 20:54, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, there's something like 9000 articles that use the TCMd template without also using the AFI template, so it's not an easy swap. The TCMd template is also on a large amount of non-American films that, as such, do not even have an AFI Catalog entry. Οἶδα (talk) 21:45, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

The best I can do is replace existing TCM templates with an archive URL please don't. I will end up sending the template to TfD and those links will need to be manually searched for and deleted. Gonnym (talk) 08:04, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

FYI there are 12,211 pages on enwiki that use the TCM database as part of a citation and/or external link. It is a "large" domain (anything over 10,000), and considered reliable. It's unusual to delete links/references entirely vs. adding archives. Also anything my bot does can be reversed, or deleted, it's designed that way with saved logging, it does not require manual work to undo the bot edits. -- GreenC 08:50, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Again, any usage of this template should not be replaced by anything manual. Any other links, do whatever you want with. Gonnym (talk) 19:23, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

But I hope you see the contradiction. Articles might look like this:

• ==External links== * [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/87065|10493/wp#overview Alfred Hitchcock] at the [[Turner Classic Movies|TCM Movie Database]]

Or this:

• ==External links== * {{TCMDb name |87065%7C10493 |Alfred Hitchcock}}

In the first case your saying it's OK to convert to an archive URL. In the second case not. They are exactly the same thing. -- GreenC 21:36, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

I'd argue that any usage as an external link used should be removed if the template is deleted at TfD. I was referring above to if the link is used manually as a citation. Gonnym (talk) 10:27, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Well by comparison nobody has attained consensus to eliminate IMDB, from external link sections, it is an unreliable source. Not sure how well it will go eliminating TCM, which is reliable including the archived link. You could argue it is redundant but that is a more complex case that would require replacement with AFI, which is a manual process that could take years, if ever. Thus in the interim the thinking it to at least add archive versions due to policies of link rot. -- GreenC 21:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

External link templates have been deleted in the past. See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 April 23#Template:TV.com. Gonnym (talk) 11:13, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

When the template is removed, by extension links are also removed. But it doesn't (always) have to be that way. Both these questions should be looked at: the template, and the link. Sometimes they go hand in hand, sometimes not. It is possible to remove the template and not remove the link. This is particularly true in this situation, where the source links are all dead and the template is not flexible enough to handle individual archive URLs, and so the template no longer makes sense. But the content is still reliable and of value as an archive page. -- GreenC 19:44, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

I understand, and as I've said multiple times, I believe this site does not offer anything of value that we can't get from other live websites. If the TfD ends in keep, then do your magic. Gonnym (talk) 18:57, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

But you are not offering a solution for replacing it. To add AFI would require looking it up manually 9,000 times. It would be better to keep what exists, while we have it, and only remove when a replacement is ready. -- GreenC 01:37, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

There are 12,200 pages with dead links that need archives. This is a separate task from the TCM templates discussed above. -- GreenC 09:02, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

The algorithm employed here by GreenC bot to add TCM rescue URLs needs fixing. The logic seems to choose the oldest available capture URL on Wayback Machine. That's normally a good choice when rescuing a defunct web page. But for TCM pages (and likely for other similar websites), the defunct URL was continually being improved, e.g., the oldest capture of a TCM "synopsis" page might just be an empty placeholder/skeleton. Over the years, the page got edited, corrected, filled in with useful data. Therefore, in the case of an evolving website like TCM, GreenC bot should choose the newest valid capture, not the oldest. The newest most closely represents the intent of the WP editors who worked on the article. I say "valid capture" because the latest capture(s) might already be bad due to the website's overhaul (e.g., the latest TCM captures show a "403 Forbidden" error code). And so IMO, the algorithm for rescuing an evolving website like TCM should be to start with the newest capture URL, and work backwards in time searching for the first one that has data in it, that doesn't return an error code, etc. As things stand, the thousands of TCM URLs that GreenC bot has just rescued are pointing to useless web pages which do not support the WP article. The-dansker (talk) 12:10, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

I just realized I should qualify my prior comment. The scope of the problem is not as bad as I suggested. In many WP articles about films, the only TCM reference in the article is the {TCMDb} "External link" that's already been discussed in the "TM:TCMDb" section. And so the problem I'm referring to only pertains to articles that have an inline citation to a TCM "Overview", "Synopsis", "Notes", "Trivia", etc., page, which will probably be a relatively small subset of all the articles that GreenC bot updated. The-dansker (talk) 12:30, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

Batch 1: Edited 3,381 pages. Added 99 {{dead link}}. Switched 384 |url-status=live to dead. Added 4,025 archive URLs (4,021 Wayback).

Batch 2: Edited 8,615 pages. Added 279 {{dead link}}. Switched 1,018 |url-status=live to dead. Added 10,454 archive URLs (10,452 Wayback).

IABot DB

• On hold - for this project -- GreenC 03:09, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Kotaku changed a/the format of its URLs from "https://kotaku.com/<number>/<slug>" to "https://kotaku.com/<slug>-<number>" without redirection.

Examples of the old format are https://kotaku.com/5358712/wikipedia-warns-tecmo-to-stop-editing-wiki-page (new format), https://kotaku.com/5724989/why-minecraft-is-so-damn-popular (new format), and https://kotaku.com/5373074/rock-bands-queen-10+pack-in-all-its-glory (new format).

As of writing, 2,190 mainspace pages use the old format. At least 1 of those pages uses a dead Kotaku URL. LightNightLights (talk • contribs) 17:23, 15 December 2025 (UTC) (edited 20:08, 15 December 2025 (UTC))

Enwiki

• Checked 2,214 pages and edited 1,991 pages. Moved 2,976 links to a new URL: 9 normal redirects, 2,967 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 51 soft-404s. Added 7 {{dead link}}. Switched 117 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 384 |url-status=live to dead. Added 243 archive URLs (222 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked about 17,000 URLs and updated about 5,000

 Done -- GreenC 21:06, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

This news source is now at thenationalnews.com. Some links redirect while other don't:

• URLs with page Ids redirect. This goes here for Sebastián Tagliabúe.
• URLs without page Ids don't redirect. This is supposed to go here for Burj Khalifa.
• However, this redirects to here without a page ID for Hindi cinema.

Think it'd be easier to check the entire site. ~4500 Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 12:41, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

I suspect the reason this is not redirecting to here is because the old is "wont" and the new is "won-t", and when they created redirects from old to new, the programmer didn't notice or didn't care. It makes my job more difficult because now I don't know what the new ID is "1.309839" - it might be possible to solve with the ruled inferred mapped redirect method the hardest trick in the book. First will check how many exist. -- GreenC 21:26, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

The URL above also changed dont to don-t. It's possible that any words with apostrophes are changed, but I haven't search. I tested the above link changing dont and wont, but no redirect was made. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:27, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

It looked like some of these problems are resolved with ghost redirects and the rest have no resolutions available at Wayback. -- GreenC 18:07, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 4,529 pages and edited 4,380 pages. Moved 4,645 links to a new URL: 3,354 normal redirects, 1,193 ruled mapped redirects, 98 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 331 soft-404s. Removed 8 {{dead link}}. Added 136 {{dead link}}. Switched 134 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 104 |url-status=live to dead. Added 782 archive URLs (379 Wayback).

IABot DB

• checked about 9,000 URLs and updated about 3,000

 Done -- GreenC 18:07, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

This is an example of a Wikipedia page about a Norwegian company: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinor

In the fact box to the right, there is a direct link to that company's page at The Brønnøysund Register Centre (public state agency) in Norway, where all companies and organisations are registered and are given a 9 digit ID.

The link in this case is: https://w2.brreg.no/enhet/sok/detalj.jsp?orgnr=923609016

From now on that link should be replaced with a link to the new web page: https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/923609016

More generally, all links containing this string: https://w2.brreg.no/enhet/sok/detalj.jsp?orgnr= ...should be globally replaced with this string: https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/ ...if possible.

Otherwise all such links will most likely return "404 not found" in the future.

I hope this is possible. Kjetilgroven (talk) 15:51, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Kjetilgroven: I found 76 pages contain the old URL. -- GreenC 18:24, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

The article Siteimprove is the one it didn't edit. -- GreenC 18:29, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

There must be way more than 76 pages. I am guessing several hundred or even thousands.

Her is another one with link to w2.brreg.no in the fact box.

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkla_(selskap)

Note that there must be a pattern replacement, since the organisation number varies. Kjetilgroven (talk) 12:47, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Kjetilgroven, the bot is only able to edit English Wikipedia. -- GreenC 06:13, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Who is responsible for the bot?

Could it be adopted to support more languages? Kjetilgroven (talk) 18:28, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

I am the author. It's an idea but not anytime soon. -- GreenC 03:14, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 76 pages and edited 75 pages. Switched 1 |url-status=dead to live.

 Done -- GreenC 18:29, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet has changed the URL to its archive. There are around 500 reference links to the archive on English Wikipedia. The URL https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1997-10-21/14/SVD is now https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1997-10-21/SVNY/14. So, URLs ending in (page number)/SVD should be SVNY/(page number) to find the correct page. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:54, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 568 pages and edited 515 pages. Moved 2,069 links to a new URL: 2,069 ruled mapped redirects.

 Done -- GreenC 20:44, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Burrelles was an American company that provided data for/about media that ceased operations in 2024. Its former domain has been sold and all links are now dead. It has been used as references for media circulation and other data.

burrellesluce.com TurquoiseGoose (talk) 04:36, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

34 pages

Enwiki

• Checked 34 pages and edited 21 pages. Switched 6 |url-status=live to dead. Added 14 archive URLs (14 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked and repaired 38 URLs

 Done -- GreenC 22:04, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Website is "under renovation" according to the main page and looks like pages under /newsroom no longer exist. --Nintendofan885^{T&Cs apply} 17:45, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi Nintendofan885: I did Americorp in June 2025: Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests/Archives/2025/June#americorps.gov. If you think it should be done again can you show examples so I know what needs to be repaired? Thanks! -- GreenC 21:49, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Old sfgate links don't redirect to their new URLs. Example, this is now here for Wicked (musical). These can't be converted due to number ID at the end. ~7k Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:33, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

This run requires two layers of added tech: Ghost redirect detection. And an "impersonation" stack to bypass their "Press & Hold" bot detector. That plus the 7k size makes it run slow, but it will be successful converting many to live links. -- GreenC 03:51, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Nice to hear that more conversions can be done! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 04:24, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 7,326 pages and edited 6,628 pages. Moved 5,143 links to a new URL: 3 ruled mapped redirects, 5,140 ghost mapped redirects, Resolved 115 soft-404s. Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 460 {{dead link}}. Switched 169 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 735 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,024 archive URLs (2,447 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked and updating about 22,000 links.

 Done -- GreenC 05:28, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

The new URL for this news source is oneindia.com. Some of these links can be converted to the new URLs while others can't:

• Converted links: These links need to have year month and day in them. The old url needs the subdomain removed and oneindia.in changed to oneindia.com. For example, this is now here for Sunanda Pushkar.
• All other links: The remaining links do not convert. Here is an example at Gangster (2014 film). No new URL was found as well. I think all non-converted links would need archives.

~2100 Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:31, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

More ruled-redirects

For entertainment.oneindia.in

old: http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bollywood/news/2010/iifa-technical-awards-winners-170510.html

new: https://www.filmibeat.com/bollywood/news/2010/iifa-technical-awards-winners-170510.html

For /entertainment/

old: http://oneindia.in/entertainment/malayalam/news/2014/mammootty-movie-gangster-releasing-today-136373.html

new: https://www.filmibeat.com/malayalam/news/2014/mammootty-movie-gangster-releasing-today-136373.html

For thatsmalayalam.oneindia.in

http://thatsmalayalam.oneindia.in/movies/news/2010/11/30-prithvi-under-pressure.html

https://malayalam.filmibeat.com/news/30-prithvi-under-pressure.html

For mykhel.com

http://news.oneindia.in/2008/06/23/tapi-mra-first-arunachalee-to-conquer-mera-peak-1214208228.html -->

https://www.oneindia.com/2008/06/23/tapi-mra-first-arunachalee-to-conquer-mera-peak-1214208228.html -->

https://www.mykhel.com/more-sports/tapi-mra-first-arunachalee-to-conquer-mera-peak-055433.html

For boldsky.com

http://living.oneindia.in/insync/2009/miss-earth-2009-larissa-ramos-271109.html

https://www.boldsky.com/insync/2009/miss-earth-2009-larissa-ramos-271109.html

-- GreenC 07:09, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

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IABot DB

• Checked and updated about 5,996 links

 Done -- GreenC 01:31, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

This website has a mixture of broken/redirecting sub-domains. These point to different websites:

Redirects:

• english.jargan.com This redirects to thedailyjargan.com. Example this to that at Noida.
• naidunia.jagran.com This goes to naidunia.com. Example: this goes here for Lachhu Maharaj (musician)
• inextlive.jagran.com This goes to inextlive.com. this is now here for Museum Replicas Ltd

Broken:

• post.jagran.com This newspaper source is now at thedailyjagran.com. However, it looks like the old URLs don't redirect and are not at the new site. Example is this at V. Dhananjay Kumar.

If it's easier to check the whole website, there's ~3k. This includes links at jagran.com and m.jagran.com. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:01, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

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IABot DB

• Checked 6,299 links and updated about 500

 Done -- GreenC 07:38, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

www.whose-tadpole.net now redirects to www.miguelplacebyelon.com/floorplans.aspx a lottery/gambling site. —usernamekiran (talk) 15:08, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. -- GreenC 05:14, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

This link now leads to the Hindustan Times Bangla homepage. BhikhariInformer (talk) 06:55, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Domain has moved from https://amtraksanjoaquins.com to https://goldrunner.com. Unfortunately the old domain redirects to the homepage, clobbering the path, which often works fine on the new domain. 60 pages. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:47, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

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IABot DB

• Checked and updated 22 links

 Done -- GreenC 23:15, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Svenska Dagbladet has recently changed the URL structure of its historical newspaper archive, causing many archive links on Wikipedia to break.

Old format (broken):

• https://www.svd.se/arkiv/YYYY-MM-DD/PAGE/SVD - for example: https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1960-08-17/9/SVD

New format:

• https://www.svd.se/arkiv/YYYY-MM-DD/SVNY/PAGE - for example: https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1960-08-17/SVNY/9

I request a bot run to automatically update all affected links in articles to the new format so that the archive references become functional again. Saftgurka (talk) 08:24, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done: Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests#svd.se/arkiv -- GreenC 05:19, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

This particular link shows "Oops! There was a problem!" upon clicking. Since it is for a comparatively old film, having an archived version would be helpful to verify info mentioned on the film's page. BhikhariInformer (talk) 15:11, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Here you go: https://archive.today/20130126102637/http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aborto-tribute-to-satyajit-ray-/979841 -- GreenC 05:27, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

I found it at archive.is -- you can also find archive URLs at archive.org -- GreenC 05:36, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: single link request -- GreenC 23:17, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

This now leads to a different website. Contains a film review, so considering it to be crucial for the film's notability point of view. BhikhariInformer (talk) 04:54, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done - Added archive URLs to 5 links. You should be able to do this independent of asking here. -- GreenC 05:33, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

This now leads to the HT home page. BhikhariInformer (talk) 05:02, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

 Not done - duplicate of request above. -- GreenC 05:34, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Contains a review. But now it shows "404 - Page not found" error page. Would be crucial from the film's notability point of view. BhikhariInformer (talk) 05:04, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

181 pages

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IABot DB

• Checked and updated 186 links

 Done -- GreenC 01:19, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Contains a film review. But now shows "404 - Page Not Found" error page. BhikhariInformer (talk) 04:17, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

 Not done - domain exists on a single page only and the link already has an archive URL. -- GreenC 05:39, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

I suspect this website may not be up much longer. The WLNE-TV WJAR-ABC quasi-separate operation appears to have ended on January 9; there are no articles since that date, their longtime anchor left, and they just rebranded as Coastal ABC. WJAR has its own site that will probably stay up, but I'm not so certain about this one. As a news-producing TV station, I suspect there are a fair number of links to it that need to be archived just in case, if they have not been already, seemingly about 180. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 19:16, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

182 pages

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IABot DB

• Checked and updated 183 links

 Done -- GreenC 01:57, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Got usurped by the JUDI gambling ring; I believe it's only at Marvell–Elaine School District but there might be other instances. ❤HistoryTheorist❤ 01:42, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. -- GreenC 05:40, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Seems to be broken since December 2025. Not sure if it's temporary. ~2k. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 04:00, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

The domain was re-registered on Dec 8 2025 to a Chinese name server. Hard to say but it looks like a usurpation of an abandoned domain that has not yet been spamified. The original was active for 20 years, and has 2,000 pages on Wiki, so it must have a high SEO rankings, a very good find for spammers. I'll treat it as a dead site and if it ever goes usurp send over to JUDI. If the original site is ever reactivated I can "makelive" again. -- GreenC 01:46, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

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IABot DB

• Checked and updated 3,310 links

 Done -- GreenC 07:10, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

WP:JUDI; only 4 hits, 2 in mainspace, so not sure if this would be easier to clean up manually. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:07, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch (easier to add it for tracking) -- GreenC 06:13, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

The Japanese version of NHK has change it's news section to news.web.nhk. Seems like some of the non-important news prior to the move now links to 404 errors. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 10:28, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

3,946 pages

The links either redirecting to a 404, or a soft-404. Either way the redirects are unreliable. For example..

In Rin Kubo: this (nhk.or.jp) redirects to there (news.web.nhk) which is 404.

In South Kantō earthquakes: this redirects to here which works, but compare with the original here the content is different ie. a soft-404

The solution then is to treat every www3.nhk.or.jp that redirects to news.web.nhk as a dead link.

However that does not work well either:

Compare original with archive - it does not replay due to complex Javascript elements.

It looks like any URL with "/news/" in the path is more straightforward text while "/database/" has complex elements.

Put all together: the rule for adding an archive URL is:

• original URL must contain "/news/" or "/lnews/" in the path.
• original URL must redirect to news.web.nhk
• the news.web.nhk URLs returns a hard 404
• alternate: if original URL does not redirect to news.web.nhk but is 404

everything else it skips

-- GreenC 07:57, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 3,966 pages and edited 995 pages. Added 32 {{dead link}}. Switched 389 |url-status=live to dead. Added 1,064 archive URLs (1,053 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked 11,312 links and updated about 8,000

 Done -- GreenC 06:06, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

The following domains have been usurped by a common actor and turned into spam sites advertising an AI chatbot software. Some of these sites appear to be forums, but upon closer inspection the "users" themselves are clearly AI chatbots, probably a "live" demonstration of the software.

• https://mepis.org
• https://babelgum.com
• https://pocketpcmag.com
• https://ping.fm
• https://eyefi.com
• https://taptu.com
• https://pjirc.com
• https://dvdrw.com
• https://benchmarkreviews.com
• https://dvdactive.com
• https://bestsevenreviews.com
• https://allgamesbeta.com
• https://filmdivider.com

Each of these domains is linked on ENWP mainspace pages, in total about 100 articles. Can citations with these domains be marked as "usurped", please?

Thanks, --LiquidSevens (talk) 01:09, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. -- GreenC 06:11, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

All Skies Encyclopaedia has moved to a new server and domain. The old URLs still work (for now), but they should be updated: a bot should replace every instance of https://xing.fmi.uni-jena.de/mediawiki/index.php/* with https://ase.exopla.net/index.php/* SevenSpheres (talk) 19:19, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

87 pages

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 Done -- GreenC 02:12, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

This old astronomy website has been offline for ~2 years, but there are still links to it that haven't been updated to archive links. Some of them are just external links that aren't used as references, so alternatively those could be removed. SevenSpheres (talk) 19:26, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

219 pages

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IABot DB

• Checked and updated 309 links

 Done -- GreenC 03:19, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

These urls are broken. Some of them can be salvaged, but others can't.

Artists

• Working: /grammys/ needs to be removed in the URL. Example, this is now here for Miley Cyrus.
• Redirects: Changing this this to that redirects to is now here for The Weeknd.
• Broken: Any artist URL that doesn't have a numeric ID at the end is broken, like this one for Tina Turner.

Awards

• Working: Both /grammys/ and the year at the end need removing for it to work. For example, this is now here here

3,684 pages

If other conversions don't work, please let me know. I'll see if they can be converted or not. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:57, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi MrLinkinPark333, I could use help with this site. It has many edge cases. Most of them I have fixes for, but one case is the Music Genre Awards, which moved. For example, this (archive) is now here. To find this you would click the pull-down menu at the top of the "archive" link, find the list of genre award categories, hover over each to find the slug code ("259"). Then go to https://www.grammy.com/music-genre and find the new equivalent page. I'm not really sure how to match these up. -- GreenC 06:29, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Looking at the genres, I notice that some of the same awards are split into twopages like Best Dance Recording. If you could provide a list of links, (1 per number), I could see what matches up. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 17:09, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

For the first 1,000 pages which are processed, there are 124 non-unique URLs and 43 unique URLs. Estimating total of around 434 URLs that could be saved this way. Worst case is they end up as archive URLs which appear to display OK. - GreenC 17:28, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

On further glance, the pages are blank for alternative and r&b. I don't know if the website is still in progress or not. I also notice that the slugs seem to follow the same order as the main music genre page but there are some numbers out of order. Let me know if you want to archive them all, or convert/archive. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 17:36, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

The site had a CMS change around 2017 or 2018 and never fully recovered. Whatever you find I can convert, or we can just archive them. -- GreenC 19:01, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

I think any with grammys/awards/winners-nominees/ should be archived for the time being. This is because of the blank pages for alternative and r&b. We can always revisit them later. A link rot case for these URLs could help determine what would need fixing. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:39, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Fair enough. Posted the first 1,000. Note the "352 ruled inferred mapped redirects", a system that discovered the artist IDs eg. Special:Diff/1310693236/1337167961 -- GreenC 22:01, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/105
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/107
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/109
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/111
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/112
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/122
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/124
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/129
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/131
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/136
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/138
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/140
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/142
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/155
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/160
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/172
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/183
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/184
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/186
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/191
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/193
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/196
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/205
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/206
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/208
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/210
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/212
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/214
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/215
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/216
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/224
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/226
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/234
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/246
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/255
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/259
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/262
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/265
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/273
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/275
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/276
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/279
* https://www.grammy.com/awards/winners-nominees/294

Enwiki

• Batch 1: 0001-1000: Checked 1,000 pages and edited 988 pages. Moved 1,148 links to a new URL: 734 ruled mapped redirects, 62 ghost mapped redirects, 352 ruled inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 319 soft-404s. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 37 {{dead link}}. Switched 33 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 28 |url-status=live to dead. Added 90 archive URLs (81 Wayback).
• Batch 2: 1001-3688: Checked 2,688 pages and edited 2,648 pages. Moved 3,195 links to a new URL: 1,980 ruled mapped redirects, 197 ghost mapped redirects, 1,018 ruled inferred mapped redirects, Resolved 727 soft-404s. Removed 4 {{dead link}}. Added 82 {{dead link}}. Switched 105 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 73 |url-status=live to dead. Added 246 archive URLs (224 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked and updated 4,710 urls

 Done -- GreenC 18:17, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

See discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#the_kotaku_times.

Usurped domain, possible WP:JUDI. – robertsky (talk) 16:29, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. -- GreenC 05:45, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

bmagic.org.uk has been usurped by a casino site. It is widely-linked on Wikimedia Commons, also. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:56, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. -- GreenC 05:47, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

The NIOSH Science Blog was recently reconfigured and the URLs changed in a non-uniform manner, with no redirects. I've matched the old and new URLs, which are available through this Wikidata query. Some posts have been removed completely, and these should instead point to Internet Archive. This affects 131 pages. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 22:49, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

User:Antony-22, I was able to fix 100 links but some a sizable number 64 have no match found.

Ah just saw "these should instead point to Internet Archive".. added archives. -- GreenC 19:51, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Pass 1: Migration: Checked 131 pages and edited 78 pages. Moved 104 links to a new URL: 4 normal redirects, 100 ruled mapped redirects
• Pass 2: Dead links: Checked 59 pages and edited 45 pages. Switched 14 |url-status=live to dead. Added 34 archive URLs (34 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Updated 62 links

 Done -- GreenC 20:00, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

@GreenC: Thanks so much! Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 22:14, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

This is incredibly bizarre. anotheracronym.org looks like a legitimate site at first; it's the website of the political advocacy organization Acronym. The problem comes when you click "about" on the hamburger menu - it redirects to a classic WP:JUDI example within the website itself (?!). The press coverage of this organization seems to have peaked around 2019 to 2020 and the last social media updates from them were in 2022, so I wouldn't be surprised if this organization went bust a few years ago and some judi spammer was able to find a vulnerability in the site. wizzito | say hello! 14:09, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

The site went into a temporary unavailable splash page in September 2023. Offline altogether in mid 2025. Then September 2025 it came back online recreating the 2023 front page with the spam content pages. Good catch. ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. -- GreenC 06:02, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

• https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/ - website for the UK print magazine Tabletop Gaming; used as source in 120 pages

I noticed that a review redirected to the website's front page but it doesn't appear that all reviews are redirecting (example) so I'm not sure if this is a widespread issue or not. Sariel Xilo (talk) 17:39, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

41 URLs had this soft-404 problem -- GreenC 20:21, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

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IABot DB

• Checked 87 links and updated 23

 Done -- GreenC 20:29, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Previous Pittsburgh Post-Gazette URLs are broken and aren't redirecting to their new URLs. For example, this is now here for Organic Theater Pittsburgh. It doesn't look like they can be easily converted either. Therefore, I think archives are needed if ghost redirects can't be found. ~1100. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:20, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

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IABot DB

• Checked and updated 1,403 links

 Done -- GreenC 05:52, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Seems to have been usurped by a gambling-related site (WP:JUDI?). BoredPenguin (talk) 03:08, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

It seems that armyrecognition.com is related and contains the archived navyrecognition.com articles.

For example old page (on archive.org) is now found at new. It looks like the last part of the slug stays the same (at least this is true for a couple different articles I checked), so it should be possible to update these.

However, I also see some links of the form: navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2166. It seems less obvious how those can be converted (FWIW the new version of that link is here). BoredPenguin (talk) 03:30, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Armyrecognition is not working giving "Origin Unreachable" errors. Happens in a browser also. I'll try again later. -- GreenC 07:08, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 776 pages and edited 708 pages. Moved 918 links to a new URL: 918 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 6 soft-404s. Removed 2 {{dead link}}. Added 1 {{dead link}}. Switched 27 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 91 |url-status=live to dead. Added 155 archive URLs (150 Wayback).

• ω Awaiting next batch of WP:JUDI for navyrecognition.com (for those unable to convert to armyrecognition).

IABot DB

• Checked and repaired 2,541 links

 Done -- GreenC 18:04, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Distributed Denial of Secrets has moved from ddosecrets.com to ddosecrets.org per this post (signed in this one). Legoktm (talk) 19:05, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done Legoktm (talk) 05:08, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

This website seems to have deviated into being the webmaster's podcast, and I doubt the various things we link to it for (many of which are pdfs) are going to come back. Now, on the other hand they give me a clean 404, so I'm not really sure why this isn't automatically taken care of by bots already. But based on All pages with source code containing "hellenisticastrology.com" I think we can just replace all links to it with archive links. Dingolover6969 (talk) 02:18, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 10 pages and edited 8 pages. Added 9 archive URLs (9 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked and updated 30 links

 Done -- GreenC 20:30, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

https://speedcafe.com/2021/04/11/erebus-expansion-no-longer-on-the-cards/ moved to https://speedcafe.com/erebus-expansion-no-longer-on-the-cards/, date seems to be dropped resulting in a lot of dead links. Example at 2022 Supercars Championship. DiophantineEquation (talk) 06:52, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 1,095 pages and edited 897 pages. Moved 3,214 links to a new URL: 16 normal redirects, 3,198 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 16 soft-404s. Removed 8 {{dead link}}. Added 4 {{dead link}}. Switched 357 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 19 |url-status=live to dead. Added 36 archive URLs (35 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked 3,168 links and updated 2,874

 Done -- GreenC 02:51, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the Nigerian health ministry, appears to have been usurped. https://health.gov.ng

As of now (5PM CDT, 2026-2-2) the only noticable change in their website is that there is a casino popup ad when you first enter the page. It's not Judi. It appears that everything else is intact (?), but better safe than sorry.

Google Safe Browsing marks it as insecure along with Fortinet, see link EatingCarBatteries _{(contribs | talk)} 22:56, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

ω Awaiting next WP:JUDI batch. -- GreenC 06:16, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

As a result of their new website interface the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) have moved several URLs on the website https://www.pdc.tv from

Year/month number/date to Year/month/date

For example: https://www.pdc.tv/news/2025/03/12/van-veen-bounces-back-claim-first-ranking-title-pc6 to https://www.pdc.tv/news/2025/march/12/van-veen-bounces-back-claim-first-ranking-title-pc6

This is resulting in a lot of dead links for previous years as well. DartsF4 (talk) 19:55, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

This is a challenging site, hosted on AWS with CloudFront security showing status 200 for every page even dead pages. I developed a custom script using a headless browser to impersonate a human. It's running slow, plus there are over 4,000 URLs. After this scripts gets the real status codes, I can send the results to the normal bot to update Wikipedia. There is a possibility AWS will detect the script and shut it down. -- GreenC 06:22, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

This site had numerous technical challenges, with good and bad results. In January they migrated to a new platform at AWS with anti-bot technology. Surprisingly I was able to crack it, but the Wayback Machine is locked out now, there won't be archives for pages they publish after January 2026. Many of their older pages were completely deleted when they migrated to AWS. The 376 {{dead link}} is higher than it should be, the community decided to ban Archive.Today, which otherwise would have filled many of those spots. The good news is 1,627 links were saved by converting to the new format, and 3,609 archive URLs added. -- GreenC 07:03, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 1,034 pages and edited 827 pages. Moved 1,627 links to a new URL: 231 normal redirects, 1,396 ruled mapped redirects, Added 376 {{dead link}}. Switched 155 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 239 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,609 archive URLs (3,609 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked 5,967 links and updated about 5,000

 Done -- GreenC 00:26, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

The CIA World Factbook (cia.gov/the-world-factbook) has been shutdown, with all links now being redirected to a fair well post. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 22:41, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Did anyone archive them? Which sections of the WF are most important to Wikipedia pages? And more importantly, how does one add an archive link to a particular citation? I think if people Wayback Machined them it shouldn't be too much of a problem, but adding all those archive links is going to take a while. VidanaliK (talk to me) (contributions) 01:43, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

This page is to notify that archive links need to be added for deadlines. There are automated bots that can add archives, which should deal with most uses of Factbook. You can add archive links to any particular article using InternetArchiveBot. Urls that are added to Wikipedia are usually automatically archived by the Wayback Machine, so hopefully most of the links will have archives available. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 10:02, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

User:ActivelyDisinterested yeah I'll do it. Surprised it's only 4,391 pages. IABot is not a good option for Factbook because they are redirecting to a splash page that returns 200 (vs. 404) so IABot won't detect the dead links. Also the site has serious content drift problems the timestamps really matter. The 2021 page for Venezuela is very different from the 2025 page. I'll need to work backwards favoring the newest timestamp (or access-date), instead of the oldest as usual, and that will be difficult, need to do some development work. The archived Factbook will quickly become outdated since the statistics are now static - they kept it updated was it's strength. -- GreenC 17:28, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Right, so we’ll need to find a new source, archiving from 2025 is only a temporary fix. Darn it. VidanaliK (talk to me) (contributions) 17:54, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Whether a new source is needed depends on the claim it is being used to support. e.g. an archive version is fine to cite for historical or unchanged facts (e.g. founding date, population as of <date>) but a new one will be needed for updated figures. Thryduulf (talk) 16:52, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Another 1,800 with a different URL scheme. -- GreenC 04:50, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Most of these were already done in 2021 but found a few more in Batch 2. -- GreenC 17:24, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Batch 1: Checked 4,365 pages and edited 4,149 pages. Added 40 {{dead link}}. Switched 1,033 |url-status=live to dead. Added 5,757 archive URLs (5,757 Wayback).
• Batch 2: Checked 1,832 pages and edited 40 pages. Added 26 {{dead link}}. Switched 6 |url-status=live to dead. Added 19 archive URLs (19 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked and updated about 1,264 URLs

 Done -- GreenC 20:53, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

@GreenC

Hi GreenC

Hope all is well with you?

Due to tardiness our end, out Link rot page has closed.I have a new batch of redirects I would like to upload please.

At your convenience, please let me know where I can put them

Warm regards

Simon StageSimon (talk) 12:09, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

I am behind in work. I take each request in approximate chronological order. You can post the redirect map to Wikipedia:Link rot/Cases/thestage.co.uk delete the old one; or if you want to keep the old make a new Wikipedia:Link rot/Cases/thestage.co.uk - 2. Thanks. -- GreenC 17:11, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi GreenC

Wishing you well, I wondered where these link updates are in your queue now?

Warm regards

Simon StageSimon (talk) 12:09, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi StageSimon, you are next in queue I need to finish up the CIA first above plus I am distracted with other things but yes very soon! -- GreenC 17:14, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I think it's done, let me know if you see any problems. The program is setup in the future I can process much faster only need to drop in the sidecar datafile and it's ready to go without programming work, so I should be able to skip you to the front of the queue (remind me next time). Thanks for your patience. -- GreenC 19:56, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Many many thanks for your help :-) StageSimon (talk) 13:45, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 3,129 pages and edited 326 pages. Moved 385 links to a new URL: 385 ruled mapped redirects, Resolved 9 soft-404s. Removed 10 {{dead link}}. Switched 275 |url-status=dead to live.

 Done -- GreenC 19:56, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

RfC to curtail or eliminate 695,000 Archive.today links from English Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5

Note: The RfC could impact this forum/bot reducing how many links it can save. -- GreenC 21:25, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Multiple articles link to a 404 page of a single source, but a different archive with actual content is available.

• Archive of 404 page: https://archive.today/20120628225245/http://www.die-tagespost.de/Archiv/titel_anzeige.asp?ID=8916 (date 28 June 2012)
• Archive of content: https://web.archive.org/web/20090514095717/http://www.die-tagespost.de/Archiv/titel_anzeige.asp?ID=8916 (date 14 May 2009)

Only the archive URL and archive date needs to be changed (and the URL status set to "dead" if it isn't already). So far as I am currently aware, this only affects this one page and no changes need to be made to other links to this site. However, the same change also needs to be made on multiple other languages. Thryduulf (talk) 13:31, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi Thryduulf: It looks like only 9 pages and some of them are already archive.org .. it would be faster/easier if you could manually check them, then for me to write custom bot code. I have updated the entry in the IABot DB.

Re: other languages is more difficult as my bot only operates on enwiki. IABot does operate widely, but there is no mechanism to replace one archive URL with another. That may happen in the future related to archive.today conversions, no timeframe for that. -- GreenC 19:03, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

These redirect to new links, but go to a paywall. Example include this going to that for Mariah Carey. I think the current links should be used instead because there are 21.5k links. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:42, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Do you mean convert query.nytimes.com links to their canonical form at www.nytimes.com by following the redirects? It's a reasonable request, because if query.nytimes.com ever stops redirecting (the sort of thing that happens frequently when sites have CMS changes) - we will no longer know where they redirect to. The NYT is clamping down on web archive providers due to AI scrapers, so the only one left that might support it is Archive.today, but the community now wants to ban it, so we may be in a situation sooner than later where these links could become completely inaccessible to Wikipedia. -- GreenC 01:29, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

I thought it'd be easier to use the new links at www.nytimes.com due to the huge size of links that'd need fixing. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:48, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Yes. Concerned about rate controls and bot blockers. They will have good defensive tech. -- GreenC 04:14, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

As expected they have hardened defenses making it impractical right now at scale by bot. The WaybackMachine has the redirects recorded, so if the redirects ever disappeared from the NYT website, the archived "ghost redirects" can be retrieved from the Wayback Machine. Hopefully things never reach that point, the NYT is a stable website. -- GreenC 05:25, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

 Not done -- GreenC 05:25, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

This used to be the website for one of American Megatrends' products, but now it goes to a website about AI and learning (one of those very sketchy looking websites with articles that are obviously AI generated with seemingly no purpose whatsoever). An archived version is seen here and it seems that it has been not under AMI ownership for at least 3 years (there is an archived version of it from 2023 that is unrelated). Goldenbutternutsquash (talk) 22:57, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done. Exists in one article American Megatrends. The URL does not display correctly on the Wayback Machine. Archive.today has been blacklisted. No archive options available. -- GreenC 05:44, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Now a porn site. Archive is available for the following citation (though I find the validity of it dubious, is a more official copyright search possible?)

Singles Awareness Day#cite note-10

https://web.archive.org/web/20230102045220/https://flexincart.com/singles-awareness-day-2023-how-do-you-celebrate-it/ ~2026-10102-17 (talk) 16:41, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done It exists in one article.-- GreenC 06:07, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

• cityname.curbed.com (example https://chicago.curbed.com/, https://atlanta.curbed.com/), etc) - over 3000 articles
• https://archive.curbed.com/ - 141 articles

Per The Architect's Newspaper (source), "a significant portion of the site's national coverage and vast network of city-specific beats has been taken offline". Vox Media stated they're not creating a public archive for what is no longer accessible. Sariel Xilo (talk) 21:28, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 3,441 pages and edited 3,042 pages. Moved 6 links to a new URL: 6 normal redirects, Added 69 {{dead link}}. Switched 1,395 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,342 archive URLs (3,342 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Updated 5,126 URLs

 Done -- GreenC 21:47, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Submitting a formal request to, where possible, replace links to archive.today with archive.org (or other suitable archive). Is this something that can be done with WP:WAYBACKMEDIC? I know that it is not always possible, but can we do what can be done automatically? I also agree with the advice to remove WP:EARLYARCHIVEs, where possible. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:35, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Just here to add a breadcrumb to Wikipedia:Bot requests#archive.today cleanup for anyone finding this and interested in discussing. Dreamyshade (talk) 23:39, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

 Not done yet. A handful of editors are picking away at it manually they should be given the opportunity over the next few months to see how they progress. Also, bot work is tricky it will take some time to develop soft-404 filters. -- GreenC 18:48, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

• Old domain: https://folk.uib.no/hnohf
• New domain: https://ardalambion.net
• Reason: The host for "Ardalambion" (a significant resource for Tolkien's constructed languages) has moved. The subfolder structure appears to remain identical, only the host domain has changed.
• Number of instances: 21 according to Special:LinkSearch/https://folk.uib.no/hnohf. I've gone ahead and manually verified that the replacement works for all pages for necessary page.

Can a bot operator please perform a global find-and-replace for these links? Thank you! CosmicDefect (talk) 02:08, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Will do. -- GreenC 18:50, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

2,500 pages - the entire uib.no domain has dead links throughout. Will migrate folk.uib.no/hnohf -> ardalambion.net at the same time. -- GreenC 21:56, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Also:

• https://wikihost.uib.no/medieval/index.php/Annales_Ryenses --> https://medieval.wiki.uib.no/index.php/Annales_Ryenses
• https://eurocomb2015.b.uib.no/eurocomb/the-european-prize-in-combinatorics/ --> https://eurocomb2015.w.uib.no/eurocomb/the-european-prize-in-combinatorics/
• https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Anne.Katrine.Bang --> https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Anne.Katrine.Bang

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.

• hitfix
• observationdeck
• denofgeek.com
• nerdist
• comicbookresources

Gonnym (talk) 08:43, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

(Originally posted at EL/N) This is something I’ll work on tomorrow when I’m on a computer rather than my phone, but since there are ~40 links to it that I can see with an insource: search, I thought I’d draw further attention to this news story about the hijacking of this domain. • a frantic turtle 🐢 22:09, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

(Crossposted from EL/N) I've been through and manually changed most of them to url-status=usurped, adding an archive link. The rest were either links to the front page or to searches on the old website, so I've just removed those entirely. (A couple were naked adverts, so they're gone too now). A lot of the references were in rubbish formats that I don't think a bot could get to grips with, which is fairly typical for our articles on TV shows, alas.

The hijacked site has taken a copy of the last working version of the real site, so people may not realise it's actually now a scam and add new links to it in future. I don't think there's a way of preventing this? I'd assume that vigilance will have to suffice. • a frantic turtle 🐢 11:49, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Noticed that some pages use an outdated version of the DNV vessel register (admittedly this is mostly ship launch articles).

Old/deprecated: https://vesselregister.dnvgl.com/VesselRegister/vesseldetails.html?vesselid=(VESSEL_ID_HERE)

New: https://vesselregister.dnv.com/vesselregister/details/(VESSEL_ID_HERE)

Where (VESSEL_ID_HERE) is replaced with the actual id. CastleOfLight (talk) 05:57, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

There are a number of legitimate citations to washingtonindependent.com, which was a news source until about 2013 (The Washington Independent). The URL has been usurped by a spam site, and I see there was a discussion a couple years ago at Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2023/November#washingtonindependent.com about marking these usurped. But I see a bunch of citations, for example on National Security Agency and Tea Party movement, marked url-status=dead instead of url-status=usurped. I'd suggest updating these to usurped. Thank you! Dreamyshade (talk) 02:31, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

After the thread Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2025/September#idolator.com was opened concerning Idolator archives, it doesn't look like any alternatives have since come up for the instances archive.today was used for preservation. This is worrisome given how archive.today got deprecated last month per Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Archive.is RFC 5. How can we handle the remaining Idolator URLs that have expired without other backups? SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 18:12, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Yeah sucks. My suggestion is don't be too reliant on public web archive services eg. https://archivebox.io/ .. in the past 10 years, 7 web archive services have been deprecated. With AI upheavals changing the nature of the web itself, that number will increase in the future. Wikipedia is unusually highly dependent on web archiving, and the WMF and community members have done nothing for 25 years, and the pain of doing nothing will eventually outweigh the pain of doing something. -- GreenC 05:43, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

I noticed this link https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/the-flash-recap-s05e02-blocked/ lead to a casino website. So it seems the domain https://www.geekgirlauthority.com was usurped. Gonnym (talk) 13:42, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

These links redirect to new URLs. Example: This goes to here for Pink (singer). The article titles will need to be updated as well.~2k. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:21, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Former website for MamEnd usurped by squatters. Does not seem to have a successor domain. Go D. Usopp (talk) 11:24, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Dead when I visit it. Around 200 links GrapesRock (talk) 10:08, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Around 500 links. GrapesRock (talk) 10:52, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

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)

Looking at "rferl.org/featuresarticle": some are dead (such as this from Iraq, though removing the "2006" from the end of the url allows it to redirect) and some redirect (e.g. this to this from Belarus). There are 452 links of this form.

Also this redirects to this suggesting a mapping of rferl.org/content/article/ to rferl.org/a/. There are 438 links of this form.

More broadly, there are around 7500 links in the rferl.org domain. GrapesRock (talk) 11:16, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

They now redirect to theworld.org. For instance this redirects to this. I'm intrigued that the publish date changes (especially since the archive has the August 4 date).

The date change is not universal (e.g. this doesn't change), so it might just be for that specific article.

(Also, I just want to double check that reports of redirects that are currently live are welcome? My current impression is that they are useful to stay ahead of link rot, but fixing dead links is just prioritized) GrapesRock (talk) 11:39, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Seems dead. There might be ghost redirects to defense.gov, though I'm not sure any of those pages are still alive. I think this because this redirects to this, but http://www.defense.gov/Speeches/Speech.aspx?SpeechID=1123 isn't a live link.

Around 1000 articles. GrapesRock (talk) 12:20, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Links now redirect to tvrain.tv (simple as changing .ru to .tv). Example. Haven't found any that don't work with this redirect (i.e. they're all currently live links, just with a redirect). Around 250 articles. GrapesRock (talk) 12:49, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Dead. Around 450 articles.

Shut down per Tut.By. Can't find corresponding links on its "successor" Zerkalo.io GrapesRock (talk) 13:24, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Dead site. Website stopped updating in 2022 and it's now down. Around 600 articles.

Example dead link from 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea GrapesRock (talk) 14:09, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Usurped website that uses boiler plate privacy policy, and is selling affiliate travel services. FluffedSylas (talk) 17:16, 12 March 2026 (UTC)