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I found many broken links on this domain: is it possible to fix them automatically? Jarble (talk) 21:30, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Jarble, finally got everything in place to process this. The IABot database is updated; there are about 800 unique links across 70-some Wikis. They are checked and most are now set to Blacklisted. For enwiki, I issued a job to process articles with these links and it should correctly save. The other wikis will finish in time as the bot comes across them. If you see any problems, let me know. -- GreenC 19:28, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
Please could someone replace ELs of the form
with
((Cite rowlett|bhs))
which produces
Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 05:38, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
((cite web))
, plain links, and links with piped text, and with/without additional plain bibliographic notes. For example, 165 of the https:// form are in a "url=..." context. I think there are too many variations to do automatically. DMacks (talk) 15:06, 19 March 2021 (UTC)MSGJ, the only type that can be converted are ((cite web))
as noted by User:DMacks it's too messy to determine the square and bare links due to free form text that might be surrounding the URL, unless there is some discernible pattern. There are 334 articles that contain a preceding "url=". Couple questions:
http://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/*
is the same as https://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/*
as originally cited? ie. what are the chances there has been content drift for these pages.|archiveurl=
.. delete the archive or leave the cite alone?-- GreenC 19:19, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
((Cite rowlett))
would be preferable, where possible, but if not, then the bare links can just be replaced. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:49, 22 March 2021 (UTC)@MSGJ: there are three types of URLs that are causing ((Cite rowlett))
to throw an error:
Example diff. Luckily saw and stopped after 5 edits. There are 17 URLs in total which I can provide. Also the error by the template looks like it might be an error, not properly adding it to a tracking category. I'll wait before proceeding in case of more unknown errors that need to track. -- GreenC 00:45, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
((cite rowlett))
. Example, Example.((cite rowlett))
. Example, Example.Total 1,443 new instances of the template, more than doubling the number in use. Remaining around 200 www.ibiblio.org URLs that might be convertible manually. -- GreenC 00:43, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
In WP:TV, we have heavily relied on showbuzzdaily.com cable TV ratings for years but the site is shutting down and might not be available in the near future. We need a bot to add archive urls to all the showbuzzdaily.com citations.
For more on the issue about the site shutting down, there's a discussion here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television#U.S. TV ratings sources. — Starforce13 18:21, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
For the record, details about the site are in it's Twitter feed: "A sad final update: in addition to our ongoing technical issues, we've lost access to the ratings we'd been able to provide on the website. Therefore, we're sorry to say that the site is officially done." As such, the bot will treat it as a dead site, now, even though pages are still live (if not entirely operational); the site is not being update, and as "officially done" it could go offline intentionally or otherwise any time. If they rebuild and open a new site, we can examine doing URL moves to the new site unwinding the archive URLs, which the bot is capable of. -- GreenC 05:31, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Results
|url-status=live
to |url-status=dead
in 323 articles. Example((dead link))
in 104 articles. Example((Cite Showbuzz Daily Ratings))
exists. 5 articles use it. Recommend convert them manually to a normal cite web, add archive URLs, and the template nominate for deletion.@Starforce13: if you see anything else let me know, happy to help. -- GreenC 00:20, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
@GreenC: Is your bot capable of removing spam links to iamin.in website? LinkSearch Thanks. -- DaxServer (talk) 10:59, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
|status=usurped
; and blacklisted in the IABot database. I'll get to it, thanks for the info. -- GreenC 14:03, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
|url-status=unfit
in English wiki (example). It was under 100 URLs in both cases. -- GreenC 04:09, 17 June 2021 (UTC)@GreenC Would you be able to add url-access=limited
to the citations from WP:THEHINDU, except those that are tagged dead? I just tested on a private window and it looks like one can read up to 10 articles per month before subscription. -- DaxServer (talk) 15:00, 24 June 2021 (UTC)