Forum:New Battle.net WoW site will break tons of links

I was trying to look for the new official fan site page (there apparently isn't one) and I realized that most of the external links with worldofwarcraft.com and wow-europe.com are probably broken now. Can anyone think of a clever way to fix these links without manually looking through all of them? -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contribs) 11:40 AM PST 5 Dec 2010


 * I'll look into it. Do you have any examples? -- 19:37, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Worldofwarcraft.com and Wow-europe.com are gone now and redirect to the new websites automatically. Is there any way to access the old content? If not, I'd say we either link to a web archive or remove the links entirely. Since there are only a few content pages on the new website, we can add them manually.—Iggey (talk) 19:43, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that at least some links redirect to the appropriate links on the new site. Examples would be good to test this further. -- 19:45, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * From what I can tell a majority of the links to the old sites are broken. I've been slowly trying fix links manually, but some links just can't currently be fixed because Blizzard has not added back the content in the new site. See the Game page and there is a big list of stuff at the bottom under "Upcoming Content..." that they plan to add, but is apparently not accessible. The EU site seems to be dead right now and the US site is very flaky (probably overloaded). --[[Image:gengar orange 22x22.png]] Fandyllic (talk &middot; contribs) 1:17 PM PST 5 Dec 2010


 * The more I look into it, it looks like Blizzard really dropped the ball and didn't identify bunches of important links that need to redirect correctly. Many links on the Blizzard support site still point to the old sites and then just redirect back to support with no guidance. Bad corporate planning is de rigeur at most places, but Blizzard tends to be slightly better. Makes me wonder if Blizzard is starting to get infected by Activision culture. --[[Image:gengar orange 22x22.png]] Fandyllic (talk &middot; contribs) 1:32 PM PST 5 Dec 2010
 * The update was indeed long overdue, though I don't think they should've completely discontinued the old site before all the information was in the new site. -- 20:54, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree, although linking to Wowpedia in their own articles makes sense now. Perhaps they intentionally didn't want to move the old content pages to the new community site and decided to dissolve it entirely, to prevent confusion. Wowpedia still has the information. It just lost the source.—Iggey (talk) 00:07, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think Blizzard intends to restore most or all of the lost information, but just present it differently. I agree with Pcj that they should have left the old site up until a proper review of links that would be broken was done, but they were apparently in a rush. Probably because they wanted to launch it for features that might be needed to support Cataclysm. --[[Image:gengar orange 22x22.png]] Fandyllic (talk &middot; contribs) 5:57 PM PST 5 Dec 2010


 * When we discover a link on this site that is going to a non-existent or wrong location on Blizzard's site, should we delete the link (with a comment on the talk page)? After, of course, first trying to see if there's a new page/url for the information at Blizzard. Tulonsae (talk) 03:18, 14 December 2010 (UTC)


 * No, just comment them out . The old link gives a clue to where the new link might be. --[[Image:gengar orange 22x22.png]] Fandyllic (talk &middot; contribs) 9:17 PM PST 13 Dec 2010

Heads up that some of the missing pages are back on the old domain - professions example - but the content is not obviously linked and many images are broken, so what's going on is anyone's guess: To quote the webmaster of the now defunct Undermine Journal - "they appear to be a bunch of fuckin' amateurs". --Timski (talk) 21:29, 21 December 2010 (UTC)