User talk:MerlLinkBot/Archives/2012

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Hi MerlLinkBot. I wonder if you could help with restoring a number of broken links to journal articles. The archive of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is available online and a number of articles are linked as references and external links on en.wiki. Recently the structure of the Archaeology Data Service website was altered, breaking all the links. An example of the old and new links is below:


 * http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_016/16_079_156.pdf (OLD link, now broken)


 * http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_016/16_079_156.pdf (NEW link, points to the same information within the new structure)

The bot would need to go through and change "ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/" with "archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-352-1/dissemination/" to fix all the broken links. Is this something it can do? Many thanks for any assistance you can offer. Regards, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 11:18, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Volvo 900-series
How to organize the Volvo 740/760/780/940/960/S90 (all basically the same car, with obvious and serious differences) has been dealt with differently across the Wikipedias of various languages. As an example, I (and others) feel that having a link to pt:Volvo 960 since there is no pt:Volvo serie 900 and since pt:Volvo 940 is a stub containing around ten words is better than no link. While the latest bot edit did have some positive effects (:nl, in particular), I also feel that the bot might want to chill when it comes to these hard-to-organize articles. As an example of the silliness, I provide the following bot battle. Coincidentally, it was reverted by MerlLinkBot again moments later. Cheers, and thanks for your work which is overall very useful.  ⊂&#124; Mr.choppers &#124;⊃  (talk) 07:25, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Yale OPA
Links like this http://www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n31/story5.html are now http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v33.n31/story5.html. So it seems occurrences of http://www.yale.edu/opa/v could be replaced with http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v -- what do you think? There are 129 occurrences. Fgnievinski (talk) 07:48, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Powers Boothe
The 2nd reference link on this page is dead: http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/01/if-the-golden-g.html. However, I did manage to find the page archived on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20080108052011/http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/01/if-the-golden-g.html. You might wanna fix that... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.89.66.107 (talk) 02:56, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Not sure how to use this...
Wld be useful if the instructions at the top could state exactly what it is the user is supposed to do here (simple step-by-step). I'm a bit confused.

I came here because moeran.com has changed to moeran.net. I'll probably change the text on the main Moeran entry.

Am about to add the 4 tildes as instructed but not sure why or what I'm doing.

Gpky (talk) 11:35, 27 September 2012 (UTC)