Questions tagged [broken-link]
For discussing the effects of broken links within posts and comments across the network, what to do with them, and how we can prevent them from becoming broken.
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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?
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Reputation League links not working if nobody got any reputation during the league period
The link for sports site on SO is not working here on https://stackexchange.com/leagues.
Other sites such as Stack Overflow are working it is displaying an error.
It says it is a server fault.
May be ...
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Editing posts with linkrot, preferred approaches [duplicate]
I have come across a few examples, the most recent can be seen here, where a proposed edit attempted to fix a dead link. I improved the edit by choosing to use archive.org's webarchive of the page. Is ...
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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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Link validator points to wrong link
I edited this answer with an improved version today:
Function to INSERT dynamic list of columns in multiple tables
When trying to submit I got an error message from the link validator:
Links to ... ...
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Preventing dead links
Sorry if this has been asked before but I couldn't find anything mentioned in my search.
I'm wondering if there's a way that we can prevent dead-links form forming as accepted answers? I found this ...
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incorrect anchors in FAQ
The FAQ page (1, 2) contains incorrect local links. Now the ids have the form link-[name], and refs have the form #[name]. For example, faq#deletion doesn't point to the right place without JavaScript ...
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Downloading OpenSTV doesn't work
Trying to download OpenSTV from https://stackoverflow.com/election/2 doesn't work for me.
Clicking the Windows link redirects me to https://stackoverflow.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/election/download-...
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Link rot "request for edit": How a user will be able to edit his/her own post when confronted with the "Edit limit"?
The question "Does Stack Exchange Crawl Web Sites?" mentions:
all being planned at the moment, in a nutshell, community will add a "special comment" to the post asking the creator to fix it, it ...
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Broken links to review queues on close/reopen privileges page
https://security.stackexchange.com/privileges/close-questions
There are links to the close votes and reopen votes queues (below "Reviewing close and reopen votes"), but they 404. The correct links ...
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Deleted questions and broken links
With the massive "spring cleaning" going around the SE + the normal heavy deletion going on + the automatic deletion recently I'm starting to worry about the amount of dead links SE is creating.
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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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s.tk not working anymore
The SE link shortener (http://s.tk) is no longer working.
Could this be fixed?
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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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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 ...
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Is it appropriate to down-vote an answer due to linkrot? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does an (old) answer that contains only a dead link deserve a downvote?
I see that it is already debatable if a bare link is a good answer or not, but would a bare link that ...
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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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Should we remove WSOiN links from answers/questions on main sites?
Edit: bfavaretto pointed out that these links are very important context on meta sites, I drastically edit this question to exclude them.
Should we start a manual cleanup of the broken links of "What ...
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Clean up on aisle [Dive into Python] 3? [closed]
Since the author of Dive into Python and Dive into HTML5 has apparently quit the Internet, we're going to need to clean up all of the Stack Overflow posts that link to these fine works.
Posts ...
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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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Broken link of SO/SE-Blog
I looked around and got here. But clicking on " the Stack Overflow reputation leagues for 2010" (the link under the second image or itself) returns an error.
I tried to find other (old) blog ...
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Incorrect wikipedia link to "Meek's method"
After 4 days, the final voting results will be freely downloadable from this page forever, and we will calculate the winners using OpenSTV with the Meek STV method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meek%...
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How should paywalled content be handled in the broken link checker?
I did try out the new, still under development "Broken links" tab of the review page. And while it certainly points out a lot of truly broken links that need to be fixes, I noticed certain categories ...
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Allow for formally flagging broken links in questions / answers [duplicate]
This answer here has a broken link:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/2535051/521799
The standard procedure seems to be to comment on this answer for the author to correct the link. But then, I'll have to ...
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Add a filter to see all broken links from a single domain
It would be very useful to have a filter in the "Broken Links" tab of the review page that would show all broken links from a single domain.
Some sites that are used frequently on certain sites (...
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Invalid link comment with no links in question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto-Link-validator marks punycode URLs are invalid
I just noticed this question, which contains no links, has a comment from Community♦ indication a broken link in the ...
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Are broken duplicate question links automatically cleaned up?
This question is marked as a duplicate of this (now removed) question but the 'Possible Duplicate' link has not been removed by the Broken Link AutoCleaner.
Does the AutoCleaner process not handle ...
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Missing link on info page
There is a missing link on this page: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges/vote-down
It also seems broken on SO. Could someone take a look?
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Link to mobile not working
There is a link saying "mobile" at the bottom of stackoverflow page. The link is not working. It is just showing "about" page. Could anyone confirm this.
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Can we determine what the problem is with an imgur linked image?
The original version of this answer had an imgur image embedded in it (original edit). I've just now approved an edit which removed the imgur link because it was broken. I remembered seeing a bunch of ...
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Was it a mistake to flag these answers? [duplicate]
My not an answer flags for the below answers were declined "a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it".
I am sorry I am kind of sleepy .. but you can read here to get an ...
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Links to external content: How do we mitigate degradation of SO as external links begin to break over time?
Since one of the main goals of SO is to provide a comprehensive Q & A repository (and not just a question and answer forum), how should we mitigate the degradation of Stack Overflow as external ...
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What do I do when URLs in comments of answers are disfunctional?
I mean, just to put another comment below, saying "your links are broken" must not necessarily solve the problem.
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Some anchors within the cooking and programmers faq sidebar don't work [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Custom sections in FAQ don't work right
At Cooking:
What about other food-related questions?
At Programmers:
Can I ask career advice questions?
What about other ...
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Broken flair images in closed Area51 beta user lists
I found a minor bug that affects closed beta proposals from Area51. *
If you look at the list of users for such a proposal, you'll see that the flair includes a broken image link:
The source for ...
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Not available images in stackoverflow help pages
At pages "Remove new user restrictions" () and "Vote up questions and answers" two images (one by page) has "The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available" status.
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How should we deal with questions that have broken links?
How should we deal with questions that no longer make any sense at all because they have broken links?
For example, this one. The question is good, but it doesn't make any sense without the code.
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Humans are dead is dead
While adding the CAPTCHA page link to this, I noticed that the image on that page links to this - however, since that t-shirt has been discontinued, linking to the video_games page explains nothing.
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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 ...
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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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Wrong feed redirection
I'm watching a problem with the URLs of your feeds:
I was using http://www.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/django instead https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/django and I got a redirection to a domain ...
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Question link broken
I've tried pressing on the question link - and I got only a search result page with no results.
I've tried refreshing the list of questions (general new questions) but still the question is there and ...
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Why am I unable to open URLs whose last part starts with a dot? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tags with usability problems - app.config and web.config
Why am I unable to open the following URLs?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.vbproj
https://stackoverflow....
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Is the Meta Stack Overflow bounty link OK?
There is a bug in an automatically generated link:
While not technically broken the link for bounty,
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq#bounty, does not lead
anywhere. The Meta FAQ does not say ...
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