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Fix broken links to Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics
There are quite a few links in the network (148 when I'm writing this, mainly on Cross Validated, Mathematics and MathOverflow) to the Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics hosted at ...
GlorfindelMod
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Does the bulk replacement tool also check if the new link is working?
Sometimes (on the request of the local community), the CMs mass replace some dead links by new ones. See, for example, this post (and Shog9's answer): How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on ...
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Can the mass-replacement tool also replace and remove?
Stack Exchange staff has a tool which can change a bunch of links without bumping the edited posts, see here: How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site?
In the situation that I've seen ...
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What causes "http://%20https://" links to be made?
See the revision history here on a post from 2016. There is this edit by our resident hero Glorfindel:
The edit fixed this link, made up of a URL but with two schemes and %20 between them (a URL ...
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Can someone fix the broken links in this historically-locked question?
This contains some broken links:
Changes to syntax highlighting
But it can not changed, because it is locked.
Can someone fix this?
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How do I deal with questions with broken links which are still valid questions?
I found this question: Do contemporary singers sound “wrong” without a microphone?, and it contains a dead link. The YouTube video is taken down. How do I deal with it?
Note, the question makes ...
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How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site?
One of the sites which people reference on Buddhism.SE is Piya Tan's "Dharmafarers".
The URLs of reference material on that site have changed, for example:
Old: http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-...
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Help us fix broken images!
This is a request for help for fixing the broken images when switching to HTTPS soon (originated from Roadmap to HTTPS: serving and uploading HTTPS-images only).
There is a Crowd Crafting project set ...
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Are Images from i.stack.imgur.com permanent? AKA "Why are my pictures gone?" [duplicate]
I got pinged with this comment:
There aren't any images.
Upon closer inspection, I realized that not only are my answer's images gone, but the other answer also.
This got me looking and I found ...
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Finding answers with specific links [duplicate]
I have (probably) a large number of posts on SO with links to my specific domain (to provide expanded information beyond what's put in the answers).
If I were to switch to a different domain (say, ...
user14860
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Help Us improve the site - broken link - old blog post [duplicate]
Broken Link on the Review page on Stack Overflow
Steps to reproduce:
go to Stack Overflow
click the review link on the top
find the yellow banner on the right
click the link 'you' (pointing to ...
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Please fix the links to Michael Kaplan’s blog network-wide
The blog has moved and old links no longer work, but fortunately they can be machine-updated to the new ones. One needs to change
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/*
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/...
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Where can I access the link-validation review queue?
Today, I reviewed a post in a review queue named link validation review queue. It's very newer to me. I didn't heard this before. I got that review link from this post.
After reviewing, when I click ...
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Links to old election reports expire
When viewing the results of an old election, I'm seeing the link to OpaVote seems to have expired (or been deleted for some reason). Could a text version of the results be included in the meta post to ...
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Dealing with SQLServerPedia link rot
Recently SQLServerPedia.com revamped their site, and in the process left a LOT of dead links. I know that I have posted many (non-link-only) answers with links to their content, and I am already in ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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Reporting of expired links in answers to locked posts
Since it's not editable nor reportable; how do I report an expired link?
user221081
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Callout links not working
On the main site, I have suddenly lost my ability to use links which have a callout effect (like Add Comment, View More Comments, Flag, the down arrow by my name, etc). This still works fine here on ...
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Shouldn't the Community auto-link fixer also fix the text?
I noticed that this answer was updated by the Community user to fix a presumably broken link: https://stackoverflow.com/a/177007/5987
Now though the text gives one address while the actual link is to ...
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Are link-only answers which contain broken links considered valid answers now?
I flagged this answer as not-an-answer, because it contains nothing useful except an off-site link which is now broken.
My flag was disputed and the "answer" remains.
I was under the impression that ...
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Blogs.sun.com is dead
Long live https://blogs.oracle.com.
It appears that blogs.sun.com URLs no longer work. They are now blogs.oracle.com.
An Oracle employee is working his way through the relatively small number on ...
user147520
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SharePoint Overflow is dead, long live SharePoint.SE!
It's been a while since SharePoint Overflow became SharePoint.SE, but this Google query shows that there are still questions, answers and comments that refer the old site and all these links are dead -...
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Fixing broken links: diveintopython.org to diveintopython.net [duplicate]
Links pointing to diveintopython.org are now broken, giving back 410 Gone header.
For example: http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html
It changed to diveintopython.net, for example: ...
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Can someone fix all the broken links to the Stack Exchange Data Explorer?
The URL for the Stack Exchange Data Explorer changed from odata.stackexchange.com to data.stackexchange.com some time ago.
There are still a lot of broken links on Meta SO to the old Data Explorer ...
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How to handle link rot and broken links?
Some questions and answers on stackoverfow have broken links. And sometimes it is important links in accepted or most upvoted answers.
If the question is old, and I have no idea of what the link ...
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What should we do about questions containing dead links? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should we deal with questions that have broken links?
The following Stack Overflow question contains a dead link. Because of the missing link the question doesn't make any ...
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The "recently imported questions" link has the wrong target
On all the sites I've checked (Stack Overflow, Programmers, Web Applications) the "recently imported questions" link on the tools menu is pointing at:
/tools?tab=stats
But there's no list of ...
ChrisFMod
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link says "PAGE NOT FOUND"
When i click on questions button i see list of question. after that when i click on this question: how-do-i-find-the-avg-of-a-column-in-postgres-sql i see Page Not Found. that is page is removed or ...
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