User:WhaleyTim

Location
High Peak, Derbyshire, England

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 * Maritime Disasters
 * UK Waterways
 * Golf

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 * Maritime & Offshore Safety
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 * Articles relating to Derbyshire and the Peak District
 * RMS Titanic
 * Golf and its history
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Fixing links to the English Place-Name Society database
A number of English place articles have references to the English Place-Name Society database at Nottingham University for the origins of the name. Unfortunately the database has been recently moved, and so the links now fail.

For example, the origin of "Yeardsley cum Whaley", referenced in Whaley Bridge, was at

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczappdv/epnnewmap/detailpop.php?placeno=11721

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nottingham.ac.uk%2F%7Ecczappdv%2Fepnnewmap

but is now at

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezins/kepn/detailpop.php?placeno=11721

Is there any way of automating (or semi-automating) the task of fixing these links?

WhaleyTim (talk) 10:54, 24 August 2011 (UTC)


 * You can find the pages containing http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ by using Special:LinkSearch; see . You can do aemi-automated editing with WP:AWB. ---'— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk'' 11:09, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks Gadget850 - I'll give that a try. WhaleyTim (talk) 11:12, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

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