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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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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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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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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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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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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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