Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2022/August

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There seem to be around 200 dead links to http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=... It appears that the relevant page has moved several times, most recently to https://magic.wizards.com/go/magazine/article.aspx?x=<the same thing>, which redirects to a URL in an entirely different format. (Although that link itself sometimes soft 404s)

There are probably a lot of other dead wizards.com links lurking, but this one has an obvious replacement pattern that I found. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:34, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Looking at it more closely: The entire http://www.wizards.com/Magic path appears to be dead, as well as http://www.wizards.com/default.asp Sometimes the same or similar pattern replacement will work, other times the content appears to have been entirely removed from the site. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:51, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Done For soft-404 links which was pretty complicated. They are all now archives, or marked dead. The site changes so often and has pages with content drift due to the sport-scores of Magic Gathering I think it's best not to mess with moving URLs for now. I can go back and do it on another pass if it's thought urgent. The domain exists in about 1,000 articles. It added 2,340 archive URLs. Updated 1,548 URLs in the IABot database. Adding a 'periodic required' the soft-404 problem will continue each time they change the site. @Pppery: -- GreenC 17:08, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

Works for me. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:14, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

Periodic required.