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Metacritic recently revamped their webpages. In particular for video games, they now have a central landing page for games that is platform agnostic, and displaying the specific scores for a given platform is now a query parameter on the URL. See Special:Diff/1182032153 for an example. This likely impacts 50,000-100,000 URLs or more.-- ferret ( talk) 18:41, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
User:Ferret - They added redirects. Try it!
The primary difference now is the first link redirects to an all platform summary page, where before it went to a platform-specific summary page. Compare old version has a grey "PC" next to the game title. The new version doesn't have a platform-specific summary page. Most links are of this variety, to the summary page. Another issue is in the example Special:Diff/1182032153 given above, the link to the summary page was converted to a critic-reviews page. Maybe that is what was intended for those cites, but I can't determine via bot that all summary page links should be converted to critic-reviews pages. It's a good guess, of course, but maybe not all are the correct change. A change of that magnitude would require discussion with others, so I can point to the discussion in case anyone complains, if you still want to do that. I'll hold off doing anything until I hear back from you on how you want to proceed. Take your time, thanks. -- Green C 23:31, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
{{
dead link}}
where the /game/ URL doesn't work with the new format and no archive exists|url-status=
from dead to aliveSome time ago, they moved their game reviews and soundtrack reviews to a new link structure, and their old game previews seem to be gone for good. Any link ending with .html doesn't work.
Soundtrack reviews: Old [3] New [4]
Previews: Old [5] QuietCicada - Talk 11:57, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
QuietCicada: These are difficult to impossible to determine. For example http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/romancingsagaminstrel/index.html -> http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/romancing-saga-minstrel/ but there is no way to determine where to put the "-". Some of them already have dashes and it's a simple matter of removing the index.html .. there are about 1000 links in this domain and it's possible with a lot of time and effort I could save a few hundred. I think the best solution is to let IABot add archive URLs when the link is dead. Also, if you want to create a map of old->new URLs on an individual basis, my bot can use that map to update the citations. -- Green C 15:52, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Per request at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Major_source_problem_with_Associated_Press. -- Green C 21:49, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
Looking at [6] (May 15, 2000) from ...Baby One More Time (album) the link remains dead. -- Green C 17:29, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
The "reports.iihf.hockey" website is not responding. Apparently, all those references will need to be rewritten to "stats.iihf.com". Maiō T. ( talk) 13:45, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Maiō T.: the bot edited 1,706 pages. It modified 8,795 URLs. Example: Special:Diff/1090651163/1184693466. Plus other misc. It found a few dozen dead links in 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship / Special:Diff/1178262869/1184678508. Maybe the URLs have a syntax error? -- Green C 01:33, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Domain is dead and has template exposure. Reported by User:Billinghurst. -- Green C 17:35, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
This domain, linked multiple times mainly in citations, seems to frequently break. Is it possible to do a mass archive addition to its uses, 'specially in citations? Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 15:48, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Jo-Jo Eumerus, the bot ran on 161 pages containing *.sernageomin.cl with the following results:
{{
dead link}}
|url-status=live
to dead
-- Green C 23:58, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Jo-Jo Eumerus: 4 of these links like in Jorquera (caldera) might be false positives ie. the link doesn't exist. -- Green C 15:19, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Convert webrecorder.io archive URLs, like this example Special:Diff/1184954276/1184954464. -- Green C 17:25, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Domain has many soft-404. -- Green C 00:59, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Although this says it is reachable, this link redirects elsewhere. Looks like a case of usurpation. Wonder how many such links there are. Kailash29792 (talk) 04:39, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
See
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Washington Independent.
We should probably get rid of any link to the live domain (which is garbage and may be considered for blacklisting) and only archive.org snapshots from before 2015 should be used. When there is no old snapshot, the link/reference should be removed entirely. Is this possible?
Snapshot from September 2014 where the latest headlines are from January 2012.
Snapshots of the homepage strongly suggest the site was down from 2015 to 2019. In 2020 the domain expired,
notice from godaddy saying "This domain name expired on 6/22/2020". — Alexis Jazz (
talk or ping me) 14:27, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
sboverride
right so even blacklisting shouldn't be an issue for that? (besides, the bot would be removing the URL so the edit should never be blocked?) — Alexis Jazz (
talk or ping me) 16:48, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
@
GreenC, perhaps this one also fits JUDI?
Chart Attack used to be a paper magazine which was
probably reliable at least for simple statements. Sorry, wrong link, it was (until May 2018) generally reliable per
Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources /
WP:RSN. Now it's just garbage. 2023:
https://www.chartattack.com/best-crypto-investment/.
Was it garbage in 2020?
[7]: "not many people know how to play online pokies and earn money."
Was it garbage in 2019? Probably,
but not quite as obvious.
In 2018
the site looked rather different and actually had a focus on music. I don't think a cutoff date is needed for this one. Better safe than sorry: cutoff date May 24, 2018. Possibly bad links seem limited in numbers, they can probably all be found within
these 38 results. (which aren't even all bad and few enough to comb through by hand) Should be usurped though. — Alexis Jazz (
talk or ping me) 10:28, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Many soft-404s. -- Green C 01:41, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Results for nationalgeographic.(com|org):
|url-status=live
to dead: 1,165-- Green C 05:12, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
For natgeotv: checked 266 articles, edited 190 articles, added 153 archive URLs, change 19 url-status -- Green C 19:50, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
![]() | This page is an archive. Do not edit the contents of this page. Please direct any additional comments to the current main page. |
Metacritic recently revamped their webpages. In particular for video games, they now have a central landing page for games that is platform agnostic, and displaying the specific scores for a given platform is now a query parameter on the URL. See Special:Diff/1182032153 for an example. This likely impacts 50,000-100,000 URLs or more.-- ferret ( talk) 18:41, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
User:Ferret - They added redirects. Try it!
The primary difference now is the first link redirects to an all platform summary page, where before it went to a platform-specific summary page. Compare old version has a grey "PC" next to the game title. The new version doesn't have a platform-specific summary page. Most links are of this variety, to the summary page. Another issue is in the example Special:Diff/1182032153 given above, the link to the summary page was converted to a critic-reviews page. Maybe that is what was intended for those cites, but I can't determine via bot that all summary page links should be converted to critic-reviews pages. It's a good guess, of course, but maybe not all are the correct change. A change of that magnitude would require discussion with others, so I can point to the discussion in case anyone complains, if you still want to do that. I'll hold off doing anything until I hear back from you on how you want to proceed. Take your time, thanks. -- Green C 23:31, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
{{
dead link}}
where the /game/ URL doesn't work with the new format and no archive exists|url-status=
from dead to aliveSome time ago, they moved their game reviews and soundtrack reviews to a new link structure, and their old game previews seem to be gone for good. Any link ending with .html doesn't work.
Soundtrack reviews: Old [3] New [4]
Previews: Old [5] QuietCicada - Talk 11:57, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
QuietCicada: These are difficult to impossible to determine. For example http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/romancingsagaminstrel/index.html -> http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/romancing-saga-minstrel/ but there is no way to determine where to put the "-". Some of them already have dashes and it's a simple matter of removing the index.html .. there are about 1000 links in this domain and it's possible with a lot of time and effort I could save a few hundred. I think the best solution is to let IABot add archive URLs when the link is dead. Also, if you want to create a map of old->new URLs on an individual basis, my bot can use that map to update the citations. -- Green C 15:52, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Per request at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Major_source_problem_with_Associated_Press. -- Green C 21:49, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
Looking at [6] (May 15, 2000) from ...Baby One More Time (album) the link remains dead. -- Green C 17:29, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
The "reports.iihf.hockey" website is not responding. Apparently, all those references will need to be rewritten to "stats.iihf.com". Maiō T. ( talk) 13:45, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Maiō T.: the bot edited 1,706 pages. It modified 8,795 URLs. Example: Special:Diff/1090651163/1184693466. Plus other misc. It found a few dozen dead links in 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship / Special:Diff/1178262869/1184678508. Maybe the URLs have a syntax error? -- Green C 01:33, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Domain is dead and has template exposure. Reported by User:Billinghurst. -- Green C 17:35, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
This domain, linked multiple times mainly in citations, seems to frequently break. Is it possible to do a mass archive addition to its uses, 'specially in citations? Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 15:48, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Jo-Jo Eumerus, the bot ran on 161 pages containing *.sernageomin.cl with the following results:
{{
dead link}}
|url-status=live
to dead
-- Green C 23:58, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Jo-Jo Eumerus: 4 of these links like in Jorquera (caldera) might be false positives ie. the link doesn't exist. -- Green C 15:19, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Convert webrecorder.io archive URLs, like this example Special:Diff/1184954276/1184954464. -- Green C 17:25, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Domain has many soft-404. -- Green C 00:59, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Although this says it is reachable, this link redirects elsewhere. Looks like a case of usurpation. Wonder how many such links there are. Kailash29792 (talk) 04:39, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
See
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Washington Independent.
We should probably get rid of any link to the live domain (which is garbage and may be considered for blacklisting) and only archive.org snapshots from before 2015 should be used. When there is no old snapshot, the link/reference should be removed entirely. Is this possible?
Snapshot from September 2014 where the latest headlines are from January 2012.
Snapshots of the homepage strongly suggest the site was down from 2015 to 2019. In 2020 the domain expired,
notice from godaddy saying "This domain name expired on 6/22/2020". — Alexis Jazz (
talk or ping me) 14:27, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
sboverride
right so even blacklisting shouldn't be an issue for that? (besides, the bot would be removing the URL so the edit should never be blocked?) — Alexis Jazz (
talk or ping me) 16:48, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
@
GreenC, perhaps this one also fits JUDI?
Chart Attack used to be a paper magazine which was
probably reliable at least for simple statements. Sorry, wrong link, it was (until May 2018) generally reliable per
Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources /
WP:RSN. Now it's just garbage. 2023:
https://www.chartattack.com/best-crypto-investment/.
Was it garbage in 2020?
[7]: "not many people know how to play online pokies and earn money."
Was it garbage in 2019? Probably,
but not quite as obvious.
In 2018
the site looked rather different and actually had a focus on music. I don't think a cutoff date is needed for this one. Better safe than sorry: cutoff date May 24, 2018. Possibly bad links seem limited in numbers, they can probably all be found within
these 38 results. (which aren't even all bad and few enough to comb through by hand) Should be usurped though. — Alexis Jazz (
talk or ping me) 10:28, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Many soft-404s. -- Green C 01:41, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Results for nationalgeographic.(com|org):
|url-status=live
to dead: 1,165-- Green C 05:12, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
For natgeotv: checked 266 articles, edited 190 articles, added 153 archive URLs, change 19 url-status -- Green C 19:50, 25 November 2023 (UTC)