Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2024/March

dcist.com


WAMU has shutdown the DCist and if you go to the website, it shows a popup stating it will redirect you to "WAMU.org in 15 seconds" (Washington Post mentions the redirect). It looks like this redirect popup is occurring on both the homepage and all of the articles so DCist links should be marked as dead. Sariel Xilo (talk) 18:36, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * 604 pages -- Green  C  19:46, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Sariel Xilo, the domain was set permanent dead by IABot.org in 2017. IABot has gaps in coverage so I rechecked with WaybackMedic and it added about 200 archive links and changes to url-status. -- Green  C  20:31, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Let's hope that's it for a bit with news outlets dying. Sariel Xilo (talk) 20:34, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Just a note that this site is now live again, for at least the next year, per WAMU reporting. 19h00s (talk) 22:00, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * 19h00s & Sariel Xilo. This site is yo-yo. Shut down in 2017. Restored in 2018. Shut down in 2024. Restored in 2024. My bot has a feature "make live". I can do that. -- Green  C  23:27, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ made live again. --  Green  C  01:49, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! 19h00s (talk) 01:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

bibalex.org
Deprecate web archive provider http://web.archive.bibalex.org and http://web.petabox.bibalex.org (on-hold pending verification site is permanently down)-- Green  C  15:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ around 250 pages converted to other archive providers or added --  Green  C  15:00, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

bhu.ac.in
Erstwhile simple links such as bhu.ac.in/history has been replaced with complex and complicated urls such as bhu.ac.in/Site/Home/1_2_16_Main-Site with no fix pattern or co-relation. Therefore, it is requested that all bhu.ac.in (except those bhu.ac.in/Site/***) be marked dead and archived url be preferred for them. Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 05:33, 16 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Also iitbhu.ac.in has a lot of dead links and redirects. Doing those same time. -- Green  C  17:00, 16 March 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ Checked 132 pages containing bhu.ac.in and iitbhu.ac.in - added 142 new archive URLs, 6 new templates, and migrated 57 links to a new redirect location (mostly http->https). Everything else appeared to be working or previously archived.  Search --  Green  C  17:48, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

squashinfo.com
www.squashinfo.com is a standard reference in articles about squash players. The problem is that current links mostly have the form www.squashinfo.com/players/12345-playername. This leads to the alphabetical players list on squashinfo instead of to the individual player profile. The solution would be to change "players" to "player" without the s. I just did this for Hannah Chukwu where I changed the respective link from http://www.squashinfo.com/players/13679-hannah-chukwu to http://www.squashinfo.com/player/13679-hannah-chukwu. We currently have several hundred articles about squash players and most of them have squashinfo-links so this may rerquire a bot to fix. Proofreader (talk) 13:31, 17 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Looks like about 472 articles. I can do this, and some other things up like conversion to https and check for dead links. Might be be a few days before I get to it. -- Green  C  15:21, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. --Proofreader (talk) 15:23, 17 March 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ Checked 779 articled. Edited 737 articles. Types of edits per above, http->https and conversion of /players/ to /player/. The site has bot blockers which made it difficult, it's inconsistent some URLs not blocked, some partially and others fully - no rhyme or reason. So I blindly did the conversions without verifying the URL actually works, spot checks suggest this is OK. --  Green  C  19:51, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

educationengland.org.uk
The site isn't reliable, but as discovered by user Bendegúz Ács at RSN, it hosts some documents that are either not easily accessible or are behind paywalls. We agreed that these documents should still be referenced on Wikipedia, but through the Wayback Machine instead of linking directly to the site. This approach reduces the risk of losing access to the content and prevents any malicious or spammy content from being added to articles. It also minimizes the potential for spamming or manipulation of the information. Upon checking for, I found that there are around 148 articles with links to this site's document path, which need to be archived. Also, please note that educationengland.org.uk is redirecting to education-uk.org so they should be archived/replaced accordingly. I would like to know if this can be done through a bot or if it requires manual action. Thank you. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 18:04, 24 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Sure no problem. I'll run the entire domain, archive the /documents links, and the rest move to the new URLs (or archive if soft-404s). And update https and other fixes. -- Green  C  20:19, 24 March 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ - Edits visible at Special:Contributions/GreenC_bot. --  Green  C  23:39, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

police.it
The original official site for the Italian glasses brand Police (brand) has been usurped by a scam site.

The old link used to be https://police.it. I know it affects all the pages related to Police (brand) in all the languages this page was translated to.

The new link appears to be https://policelifestyle.com/. Erniwastaken (talk) 00:42, 27 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I can't find any pages that have police.it: --  Green  C  13:47, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

policelookbeyond.com
The https://policelookbeyond.com domain, which used to be property of the Italian glasses brand Police (brand) has been recently usurped. I cannot find a new version of the site, would it be possible to look for an archived one?

The link is present at least in some versions of the Police (brand), and I don't know of other uses. Erniwastaken (talk) 00:48, 27 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I can't find any pages that include policelookbeyond.com: It does appear to have been fixed: Special:Diff/1186189568/1215771089 .. unfortunately my bot does not operate on other language wikis, and IABot is not programed for this kind of work. I suppose we could set both domains to dead in IABot, so at least they are converted to archive URLs on the other wikis. --  Green  C  13:52, 27 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Both domains are now "Permadead" and IABot will convert to archive URLs on the 300+ other wikis. -- Green  C  13:54, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

theinsiter.org
The theinsiter.org domain, which used to be property of a Maltese student newspaper, has been usurped. Some more recent articles seem to be available at the same path but on the domain insite.mt, but not all of them. AlexandraAVX (talk) 10:02, 27 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Added to WP:JUDI for later batch processing conversion to usurped. Special:Diff/1214769148/1215848898 -- Green  C  13:56, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Texas Rose Festival
The main URL subtitle should be texasrosefestival.org (not com). The domain was lost in January apparently and sold. It’s a volunteer-based charity event anyway so it was changed to the org suffix. On some search engines the top rank result is the wiki page with the bad address. Thank you for reading this and for your help. Jckmlvny (talk) 14:46, 29 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I could only find one case of texasrosefestival.com - in Tyler, Texas - and that link is dead (even when .org), it should remain as .com since the archive URL is also .com -- Green  C  14:55, 29 March 2024 (UTC)