User talk:MerlLinkBot/Archives/2009

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www.whitehouse.gov
I noticed the MerlLinkBot replaced dead link www.whitehouse.gov with georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov, starting a Business process modeling‎, see here

I think this is a very good thing. I wonder if this bot could run on Wikicommons as well. I guess I have updated at least 100+ images from www.whitehouse.gov there but I am not quite sure.

I just seem to notice there are maybe over 2400+ images there, see here

This seems like a good idea. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 14:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Please take a look at commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/MerlLinkBot. I still don't know if source links should simply replaced there or whatever because i am familiar only with german rights.
 * But most of the images are still available at there original url. I am replacing only links that are not working any more. Merlissimo 20:04, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I guess you are right the bot shouldn't start replacing all url's. It was just a thought. I guess your right as well that a lot of links are still working.


 * Anyway it is good to know, that some documents at www.whitehouse.gov have been moved tot the georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov pages. I recently experienced this problem Federal Enterprise Architecture article, see here. By then I didn't know what to do, but now I know. Thanks for explaining and keep up te good work. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 21:38, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Nearly all old pages have been moved to georgewbush-whitehouse. But it is better to link to the live website instead to an archived website when its still possible.
 * When i have finished whitehouse (i have replaced only pages returning 404 yet, but there are also some 301/302 pages shich should be replaced) my next related job will be
 * http://state.gov/XX -> http://2001-2009.state.gov/XX
 * http://www.state.gov/XX -> http://2001-2009.state.gov/XX
 * Merlissimo 22:18, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The funny thing with the Federal Enterprise Architecture article link was, that the live website only presented the revised 2007 version report, and no longer the 2005 version. Thanks anyway and good luck. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 22:27, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

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Demographics of New York City
Hi, when you substituted the archived Bush site for http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/homeownership in footnote 17, you led to an equally-useless page. The link probably wasn't working before the Inauguration, either, having no doubt changed content after the mortgage banking crisis. I fixed this by a different reference to the (printed) Statistical Abstract of the United States, but I think that the individual links need to be checked for continued relevance rather than simply switched mechanically from whitehouse.gov. (On the other hand, when I checked something more specific, the press release for Robert Mueller's appointment, the switch worked fine.) —— Shakescene (talk) 23:22, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The bot isn't able to check the relavance of a link. http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/homeownership is an example of the useless redirects of the new website version. I think you would also find some information about homeownership on the new website, but correcting the link to the official archived version is more useful than a dead link or and a link pointing to totally different content. Changing content should by done by humans.
 * My bot should correct only those more or less dead link. E.g. http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/news-speeches/speeches/print/vp20011209.html is not really dead but redirects to Joe Biden which is nonsence and has nothing to do with http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/vicepresident/news-speeches/speeches/print/vp20011209.html . But redirects which are pointing to similar content are left unattached. (e.g. http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/ is not replaced by http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/vicepresident/ because the bot cannot differ if this is a link to Cheney or the vice president in general. Merlissimo 00:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)