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danishcharts.com

Hello. There are at least 2000+ links and 1000+ instances of external links of danishcharts.com that need to be moved to danishcharts.dk. Example: this should be pointing to here for Phoenix (Carpark North album). This is similar to my previous request of moving charts.org.nz to charts.nz (which has already been done). Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:25, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

  • @MrLinkinPark333: Looks like Danish Charts made URL changes beyond ".dk", I made 10 diffs and 2 had trouble.
  • diff1 converts to [1] but the correct URL is [2] (they changed "(White+Album)" to "[White+Album]"
  • diff2 converts to [3] but the correct URL is [4] (they added an apostrophe-s in Peppers)

Not all URLs convert () to [] and it's impossible to know when an apostrophe should be added. Who knows what else they changed. I can keep going and it will break some percentage of links (which are dead anyway). It can detect when a link is broken and log so someone can go back and manually repair them. I can't manually repair but can provide a list of broken links. Guessing it might be a couple hundred. -- GreenC 01:21, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

@GreenC: I can work through the remainder ones after the majority is fixed - () to [] and apostrophe/no apostrophe. Let me know which ones give an issue. Or: you can have me do those ones instead if it'd be easier. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:25, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
  1. The bot ran and fixed most cases, about 1,300 links.
  2. There are about 25 cases left that need manual change the bot couldn't see these for a couple reasons [5]
  3. The URLs it could not determine are below. Good news a lot fewer then expected, I guess the Beatles were anomalous.checkY
  4. I found three more <country>charts.com listed below. I'll begin working on those next.
danishcharts.dk unknown URLs
@GreenC: Not bad at all! I was wondering if it's worth removing ones with archived links and replacing them with live links like at St. Anger. Also, should I change any that has this as the website name like at If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind? The website is technically still called danishcharts.com if you click on the link despite being moved to danishcharts.dk. Nice find with the three other projects as well! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 16:53, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Yup replacing archives is a core bot function (example) but at St. Anger the URL is inside an unrecognized template {{albumchart}}. -- GreenC 17:56, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
I see. Done the collapsed box if you're interested. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:24, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Excellent. -- GreenC 18:54, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
The leftover danishcharts one are publishers/website names/archived URLs. I guess it's not worth replacing these instances. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:02, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
The bot wasn't processing citations if the URL itself didn't change, so some of the metadata fields were not being processed. I modified some things so this should be less of a problem in the future. -- GreenC 23:58, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

austriancharts.com

Same as above: austriancharts.com -> austriancharts.at

germancharts.com

Same as above: germancharts.com -> germancharts.de

@GreenC: With this one there's a problem. Both the singles and albums only provide the top 10 from 2007 onwards. This is a problem as the chart publisher has the top 100 singles and top 100 albums (The May 1st charts are both Top 10 currently as it's not fully published yet). This would effect articles like Sound of My Heart which has a peak over 10, plus the website itself doesn't have the chart under the search results. So, I think these might need to be converted over to offiziellecharts.de as that's what's being used. The entry for Sound of My Heart is here, and it's a lot different that germancharts.com --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 17:16, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Alright good to know, I'll leave this one for now. There are about 250 articles with germancharts.com -- GreenC 21:04, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

dutchcharts.com

Same as above: dutchcharts.com -> dutchcharts.nl

  • Fixed about 110 citations. Example -- GreenC 21:04, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

officialcharts.com/archive-chart/

Hello. There are a lot of officialcharts.com links that are broken (at least 5000). These one have /archive-chart/_ in the URL (underscore indcluded). Depending on the URL, some of these can be fixed as there is a new URL for it. For example: this would need to go to here for the Scottish Charts. From what I can tell, the number inbetween /_/ and the dates should go as following (old -> new and the date is just to show an example):

  • /archive-chart/_/1/20140810 => /charts/singles-chart/20140810/7501/
  • /archive-chart/_/3/20140810 => /charts/albums-chart/20140810/7502/
  • /archive-chart/_/4/20140810 => /charts/official-compilations-chart/20140810/7503/
  • /archive-chart/_/6/20140810 => /charts/singles-downloads-chart/20140810/7000/
  • /archive-chart/_/7/20140810 => /charts/albums-downloads-chart/20140810/7003/
  • /archive-chart/_/8/20140810 => /charts/classical-artist-albums-chart/20140810/147/
  • /archive-chart/_/9/20140810 => /charts/classical-compilation-albums-chart/20140810/148/
  • /archive-chart/_/10/20140810 => /charts/rock-and-metal-singles-chart/20140810/111/
  • /archive-chart/_/11/20140810 => /charts/rock-and-metal-albums-chart/20140810/112/
  • /archive-chart/_/12/20140810 => /charts/independent-singles-chart/20140810/130/
  • /archive-chart/_/13/20140810 => /charts/independent-albums-chart/20140810/131/
  • /archive-chart/_/14/20140810 => /charts/independent-singles-breakers-chart/20140810/254/
  • /archive-chart/_/15/20140810 => /charts/independent-albums-breakers-chart/20140810/255/
  • /archive-chart/_/16/20140810 => /charts/r-and-b-singles-chart/20140810/114/
  • /archive-chart/_/17/20140810 => /charts/r-and-b-albums-chart/20140810/115/
  • /archive-chart/_/18/20140810 => /charts/dance-singles-chart/20140810/104/
  • /archive-chart/_/19/20140810 => /charts/dance-albums-chart/20140810/105/
  • /archive-chart/_/20/20140810 => /charts/country-artists-albums-chart/20140810/21/
  • /archive-chart/_/21/20140810 => /charts/country-compilations-chart/20140810/31/
  • /archive-chart/_/22/20140810 => /charts/scottish-singles-chart/20140810/41/
  • /archive-chart/_/23/20140810 => /charts/scottish-albums-chart/20140810/40/
  • /archive-chart/_/33/20140810 => /charts/specialist-classical-chart/20140525/specclass/
  • /archive-chart/_/44/20140810 => /charts/asian-download-chart/20140810/asian/
  • /archive-chart/_/45/20140810 => /charts/official-streaming-chart-archive/20140622/streamarc/
  • /archive-chart/_/47/20140810 => /charts/record-store-chart/20200424/530/
  • /archive-chart/_/49/20140810 => /charts/christian-and-gospel-albums-chart/20140810/christ/
  • /archive-chart/_/50/20140810 => /charts/audio-streaming-chart/20140629/7507/
  • /archive-chart/_/51/20140810 => /charts/singles-sales-chart/20140810/7509/

Some of these would require manual corrections as they only contain the year in the wikipedia links. Also there's supposedly Coalition Singles /36/ and Coalition Albums /37/ as cited at Heathen Child, Crystalline (song) and Biophilia (album) but I don't see them in the OCC charts. They might have been deleted but I have to double check. /5/ was Official Subscription Plays Chart and /40/ belonged to 1Xtra Chart but they're discontinued. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:30, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

@MrLinkinPark333: Could you find 4 or 5 random URLs manually fix them and link to the diffs? That would help me to see a live diff of what the change should look like. This has a number of moving parts and want to make sure I understand it in practice. -- GreenC 22:29, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
@GreenC: Heres 1, 2, 3 4 and 5. Most of the links have a date in them, but some only have the year in them. For example, List of UK top-ten singles in 1952 has /archive-chart/_/1/1952/ for the URL. I think it'd be easier to focus on the ones that have the full dates in them only. That'd cut down a lot of the results :) Same with skipping over /5/ /36/ /37/ and /40/ per above unless you want to flag them as dead links. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:47, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
Maybe I am missing something but in the first diff the original date is /2012-12-22/ and the new date is /20121216/ .. how is the new date determined? -- GreenC 00:56, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
For the first difference, I went by the first date there, not the 2nd date. Some links have one or the order. For this one, if you tried to adjust 20121216 to 20121222, it'd redirect you to 20121216 as that was the beginning of the week (Sunday) --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:03, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
I see. The URL https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/asian-download-chart/20121222/asian/ redirects to https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/asian-download-chart/20121216/asian/ - it's a two step process: 1. convert the old url to the new URL (with the old date) 2. Determine where the URL redirects to as final destination. It will be more complicated but doable. Redirects have a higher error rate as they often don't maintain redirects for everything, but it is worth a try to see what can be fixed. I'll probably have more questions once the <country>charts.com project is done above. -- GreenC 16:19, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Officialcharts
@GreenC: I've just found some more under theofficialcharts.com. If that's too much, I can request these ones to be changed in a separate request. The same things apply except theofficialcharts.com would need to be changed to officialcharts.com --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:42, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
I worked on theofficialcharts and officialcharts about 7 months ago Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests/Archives/2019/October#chartarchive.org_and_chartstats.com_(again). There ended up being a set of URLs that couldn't be converted for lack of info. I think everything that could be done was done unless your seeing something different. -- GreenC 00:56, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
@GreenC: They're under the /archive-chart/ part if you search via external links --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:03, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Ok. -- GreenC 16:19, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Results

The bot ran and converted 6,517 citations (including theofficialcharts). There are a few that didn't convert probably because the redirect doesn't work, or the bot couldn't parse the link from the page. Thank you MrLinkinPark333 for figuring out the complex conversion rules. -- GreenC 04:03, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

No worries @GreenC: A lot of the leftover ones just have years and are List articles or articles talking about the individual charts. I'll fix any of them that are neither like The Beautiful Game (compilation album) and Parachutes (Coldplay album). What should be done with the remainders? --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 16:38, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
How about go ahead and manually adjust any you can, and those remaining I will adjust the bot to add archive URLs or a {{dead link}}. -- GreenC 17:04, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
@GreenC: How about the ones here? Did the bot have issues with them? As for your above link, I did most of them. Some of them i left alone as they just have the year in their url while others were already archived. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:58, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Yes theofficialcharts were included, looks like 1,131 of those (example). Any not done for the same reasons as officialcharts. -- GreenC 21:08, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
@GreenC: Alrighty. Thought I asked. Fixed some and left some for the same reasons as the others ones. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:07, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

SR/Olympics will die soon

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T242241

Hello! Please archive SR/Olympics (link) before 1st of March, when the site is going to die. I am posting this request here per GreenC's comment on Cyberpower678's talk page. Please note that this problem effects every wiki. Thanks in advance! Bencemac (talk) 18:36, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Update on progress. I was able to determine there are about 156,000 unique URLs of www.sports-reference.com/olympics across all wiki projects and languages. I've setup a script to check each against Wayback and if not there issues a save command. It takes about 2 seconds for each URL so that is about 3.5 days .. should be done by mid-day Monday the 24th assuming no problem. Once the saves are done, the next step will be to update the IABot database with the new archive URLs. -- GreenC 03:58, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Did the first part of this go well? Is it time for phase 2? Kees08 (Talk) 20:14, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Yes everything is saved at Wayback, it could go offline today and we have everything needed. There are over a quarter million links (not the 156,000 I thought), so every step takes a long time. 1. Find all links across all Wiki projects (a day). 2. Save those links at Wayback (4 days). 3. Find all links in the IABot database by downloading the entire database (5 days). 4. Find which links are not in the IABot database that exist in the Wikis (2 days). 5. Add those missing links to the IABot database (3 days). 6. Upload archive URLs into the IAbot database (TBD). 7. Run IABot on all articles (TBD). I'm in the middle of step 5. Step 6 will take a long time many days. So will step 7. There might be a step 8, which is run WaybackMedic but that would take weeks, I have no decided if it will be needed depending on step 7 results. -- GreenC 21:46, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
GreenC, thank you very much! :) Bencemac (talk) 08:01, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
This is great news, thanks a lot for your hard work! Teemeah 편지 (letter) 09:29, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
Turns out IABot database has separate records for http and https, it sees them as totally different URLs. And sometimes sports-reference.com has pages available for both, or only one or the other, oddly. Will need to redo step 5 and 6 for those. -- GreenC 15:06, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
  • There are some links that don't work, example: [6] -> [7] -> [8] .. these links worked at one time, went dead before they were archived, and now we have no archives for them. Not sure the percentages but there will be some {{dead link}} once IABot starts running. -- GreenC 16:13, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
  • @Bencemac: I have run into a problem. See [9]. Notice the log at the bottom. It says "Kleivas(lvwiki) Set all links in the domain www.sports-reference.com to Alive". This overwrote the work I did to change the olympics links to Dead (about a quarter million links) which took about 8 days to process. So we are back to ground zero -- all links are now Live. Basically, I can't set the olympics links to dead until the site is actually dead, otherwise anyone will change the entire domain to Live at any time nullifying the work to set them dead. @Cyberpower678: if you have any thoughts. -- GreenC 16:23, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
I see, although only admin and root permissions give you access to changedomaindata. Does it mean that Kleivas is one of them? Few clicks and your work is gone, very unfortunate; I am sorry about it. Bencemac (talk) 17:57, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
Looking more closely, Kleivas is a user on lvwiki and has never logged into the interface. It was done by IABot through some internal logic that looks at reverts of IABot edits (on wiki), as done by Kleivas in this case, and makes a decision to change the domain status ie. if a user says the domain is working by way of reverting IABot, then it resets the domain status to live. Hrmph. - GreenC 18:12, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Olympic Sports Reference Update

Thread continued from above Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests#SR/Olympics_will_die_soon

As of yesterday, Olympics at Sports-Reference.com has finally been shut down. These links might be merged into a new site by OlyMadMen in the future. However, I was wondering if these links could be replaced with archived links for the time being. I know there was an attempt to archive these links before. Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 16:48, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

It appears they redirected the URLs to the olympics.html page. Thus they are not 404 and IABot won't save them. Sigh. Can't catch a break. Those links should return status 404 for IABot to work correctly. I could add archives on Enwiki with WaybackMedic bypassing IABot entirely, but it won't help all the other wiki languages which rely entirely on IAbot. -- GreenC 17:25, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Requested possible help at User_talk:Topcardi#sports-reference.com. -- GreenC 15:30, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
The site is now returning code 401 which means they are signaling dead. Yay! Thank you sports-reference for the fix. Now it is left to IABot to process pages on dozens of wikis, it will take time as it requires multiple passes before it decides a link is truly dead. In the mean time, enwiki is the exception, I will be running WaybackMedic which will save the links quickly. -- GreenC 00:42, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
  • There is a template {{Cite sports-reference}} that has special code for archives. It has 57k transclusions. The archives are set to an arbitrary date of December 2016 bypassing |access-date=. -- GreenC 17:36, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Moving forward. Run WaybackMedic on Enwiki bypassing IABot. This will work and can be done relatively quickly. After that revisit the other wiki languages which are dependent on IABot. The WaybackMedic run will also process {{Cite sports-reference}} and add archiveurls to those templates. I'll need a day or two to get things set up. -- GreenC 18:15, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Results

The bot processes about 101k pages and changed somewhere around 150K citations. If it missed any please post examples, thanks. -- GreenC 12:58, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Awesome! Didn't realize that many citations were using that website :/ --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 17:38, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

jurnalul.ro domain change error:301

jurnalul.ro is 301. it is redirecting to jurnalul.antena3.ro. there are almost 400 on english and nearly 1900 hyperlinks on romanian wikipedia. am i asking right and at right place ? Leela52452 (talk) 18:34, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Leela52452 Yes right place. I checked and the redirects do not work, so we will mark the domain as dead and add archive URLs, on enwiki. For rowiki, it is a problem, because IABot is not running at rowiki. Eventually it might (one day all wikis will have iabot), not sure when rowiki will have it, could be months or years. When it does run it will archive the links. -- GreenC 03:25, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
For Enwiki in the IABot interface, I set the global live state to "dead" and queued 565 pages to process the links. -- GreenC 13:21, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Request to globally modify citations using obsolete domain www.gov.ph

There is a large number of Wikipedia pages that cite from the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines using the obsolete domain www.gov.ph resulting in 404 errors when clicked. That domain has since been modified to www.officialgazette.gov.ph.

E.g.: https://www.gov.ph/1975/05/05/official-week-in-review-april-7-april-13-1975/ should be modified to https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1975/05/05/official-week-in-review-april-7-april-13-1975/

(See for instance the edits I made in Order of Gabriela Silang.)

How can I effect this change globally without having to edit each and every Wikipedia article?

Note: I also posted this in Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks because I wasn't sure. Thank you! Justinadriel (talk) 02:41, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Justinadriel, this is the right place, I can do it. Cancel the AWB request though because it can cause problems (adding and subtracting archive URLs, dead-link templates etc). -- GreenC 02:52, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Thank you GreenC! Justinadriel (talk) 10:46, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Results

Justinadriel: Changed about 1,100 citations in 784 articles. Example diff. The remaining http and https links. The bot checked if the www.gov.ph URL was working and if so it left alone, so for example it didn't modify http://www.gov.ph . If not working, then it checked if the www.officialgazette.gov.ph version was working, and if so changed it. If neither worked it added an archive URL, or marked dead if no archives available. -- GreenC 00:58, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much GreenC! Justinadriel (talk) 02:01, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Domain change for the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board

Per a note at User talk:Stephanie (Oxford)#Help me!, the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board is changing its domain from oxfordshireblueplaques.org.uk to oxonblueplaques.org.uk. It's referenced in a fair few places on wiki after having a brief look, so it'd be good if someone could do a quick runthrough with AWB or a bot. Cheers! Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 09:18, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Naypta, I will do this. -- GreenC 17:14, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Naypta: done for 102 cites in 99 articles. Except one URL which it can't find (William Kimber). -- GreenC 13:30, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

@GreenC: Cheers! Pinging Stephanie (Oxford) who originally requested the change :) Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 13:31, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Cashbox magazine (new url)

Hello. Cashbox Magazine used to be under an IP address for their website and now is at their new url. For example this is now here. Almost 1300 results but many are Talk pages. Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:09, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

MrLinkinPark333: Converted about 750 cites in 540 articles. About 450 cites ended up looking like this so re-did to this. One left at David Shelley does not work, nor has archive, probably an error in the URL that could be found by searching the site. -- GreenC 17:34, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for making the extra effort in Maggie May :) I'll hunt for that David Shelley one. I haven't seen Beach Countdown before, but I'll see if that's a thing or not. Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 17:39, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Chart-track.co.uk

Chart-track.co.uk is completly dead. I can't change/manage the domain status with InternetArchiveBot. I'm currently running the bot on List articles only as they have a lot of these links. However, there are at least 5000 instances of this URL not including singlechart and albumchart on various other articles like Layton's Mystery Journey and Blackstar (song) both under http and https. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:09, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Queued to run on IABot, but at the moment not sure about IABot. Will see what happens. -- GreenC
Yeah. My results from the bot query didn't go well, so IDK about it either. A lot of it didn't archive. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:00, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
The iabot queue I ran above did archive some. Now I am curious. Currently running the full set (1,104 articles) through WaybackMedic. -- GreenC 00:36, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
It added about 360 additional archives. Some could be because IABot was unaware the links existed on the page, they were added after the last time the bot scanned the page so it didn't have them recorded in its DB, it would get them eventually. But some like this are not explainable. For example the first link has been in the IABot database since 2016 and is status dead, but it could not generate an archive URL (blank archive field - now fixed). Other cases like this where IABot was unable to mark the link dead. There were 1,181 chart-track archived URLs before WaybackMedic ran + 360 fixed means IABot had an error rate of about 20%, plus other problems like not marking links dead. I'd have to run it for other domains to see if the 20% rate is typical or not. -- GreenC 16:12, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
Very odd. Please let me know if any singles/albums can't be archived as those would need to be replaced with other links (like Irish-charts/OCC). I hope non-music ones (i.e. video games) don't cause issues, cause I don't think there'd be other links for them. Same with Album chart usages for IrelandClassical‎, IrelandComp‎ and IrelandIndependent‎ (these are templates here). --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 17:10, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Link rot/cases/chart-track-uk is the complete list of dead links (ie. no archive URL available) for the recent WaybackMedic run. They all contain "musicvideo". No info for pre-existing {{dead}} such as those added by IABot or other editors. -- GreenC 02:13, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
@GreenC: I replaced what I could. I'm not sure where to find the rest (Dance charts). How many links/articles ended up being archived? This includes the ones I did in the previous bot run too. Thanks again for making a huge dent in link replacements! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 15:00, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Great. There were 1,181 chart-track archived URLs before WaybackMedic ran, probably a lot of those were done by IABot. WaybackMedic filled in an additional 360 archived, plus the 175 with {dead link} tags. You predicted around 5,000 but not seeing that amount? -- GreenC 03:23, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
@GreenC: I was going by this and this together, but it includes User and Talk pages. If it's a lot less than that's even better :) --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 16:24, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
MrLinkinPark333: Templates would explain a discrepancy. URLs in templates show up in external link search results, but are invisible to bots since there is nothing to change in mainspace pages. You mentioned templates above but it didn't sink in. Example The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (soundtrack) cite #18 & #19. Could try changing the URL in the template to a generic archive URL date or possibly a "*" date. So for #18 it would become either "*" eg. producing [10] or a universal date "20180101" eg. [11] -- GreenC 17:52, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
@GreenC: It'd be a lot better to archive the actual date one to show the peak. I much prefer a universal date as it does show LOTR peaked at #11. But again, that might require manual work. BUT, I think this will be eventually moved to Irish-charts/OCC based on the cleanup. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 17:58, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Universal date

@GreenC: In regards to universal date, are you sure it will fix all of those dead links in single and album chart templates? Maybe for Single, but I don't think Album as there is IrelandClassical‎, IrelandComp‎ and IrelandIndependent. I think all of this would need to be verified first before adding a universal date. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:34, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
I updated the two templates single and album. It will be the same date for every URL there is no way to do it on a per-URL basis unless the template were removed and replaced with a {{cite web}} in each article. Hopefully 2018 is a decent date, wayback will automatically try to find the nearest snapshot to January 1, 2018. -- GreenC 18:37, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
Then won't each link require acrhivedate/archive url? They currently look like live links but they're not. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:43, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
That's how it is with custom cite templates. archiveurl/archivedate is a CS1|2 convention and these are not CS1|2 templates, and they don't support archiveurl/archivedate. This method of prepending an archive URL is commonly done in custom templates when a domain is dead. The alternative is convert each instance of the template to CS1|2 (cite web). -- GreenC 18:48, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
Hmm. I think editors in the singlechart/albumchart should be informed. Reason being that Charttrack links in those templates were *eventually* going to be converted to other templates. If this soulution is better, than maybe we dont have to convert them. @Muhandes: in particular as they've made a lot of templat edits to it. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:00, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
You mean a template different from the two here? That's fine in the mean time an archive URL is still useful, the two approaches are not contradictory. Any domain that is dead should have a universal archive URL, the Greek and any others I'm loosing track. -- GreenC 14:56, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Hung Medien sites

I'm not sure if this was done but both mexicancharts.com and greekcharts.com are dead and require archived links. I know both of these are being used in albumchart template and that the bot cant fix those ones. Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:45, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Normally would set the domain dead via IABot and it would archive them all, but IABot is down for maintenance not sure how long .. WaybackMedic is still processing the Olympics above, should be done by tomorrow or the next. Can see where things are then. -- GreenC 03:02, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
No worries! Olympic Reference is a lot more important to finish up first :) --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 16:42, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

IABot is back up. Set both domains to dead and queued pages (about 300 and 200 respective). -- GreenC 13:24, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

@GreenC: Did both websites archive okay? --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:30, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
MrLinkinPark333, I didn't run WaybackMedic on these, but based on experiences below it might be a good idea. The bot is running other projects at the moment (non-URLREQ). -- GreenC 03:17, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
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