Talk:Realmslore

Official Forgotten Realms Homepage
The link to the WotC site on the Realmslore page is broken (e.g. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fr/welcome)

Since WotC have reshuffled their website structure a lot of links have broken, they haven't setup any "301" redirects, so a lot of these now go to "404 error pages. I keep coming across these on the FR Wiki, and I try and fix them when possible.

What's the current "official" FR homepage? Is it this: http://dnd.wizards.com/dungeons-and-dragons/what-is-dd/forgotten-realms

(Mallmus (talk) 10:24, March 31, 2016 (UTC))


 * A lot of the old links can be updated by changing the "www" to "archive". We've updated a bunch and do others as we come across them.


 * I think that old link went to the 3.x-era main page, not to one specific to the Realmslore series of articles. I've updated the link to the old 3.x articles. It will need different links for the 4e and 5e series of articles.


 * I don't know what the official page is now. That site hasn't made sense since the end of 3.5 edition. — BadCatMan (talk) 11:09, March 31, 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for handling the quick cleanup of this page. The broken WotC links are a bit of a pain; in my own opinion WotC didn't handle that very well.


 * I don't know how much freedom we have with a Wikia wiki, are you able to access the database to do some sort of find-and-replace on older links?


 * Is there a way of updating a broken link in one place and it updates all the others across the wiki? (Mallmus (talk) 11:24, March 31, 2016 (UTC))


 * No, but I have a bot program I can use to find and change text on an automatic or semi-automatic basis. I can use it to change links like that. I had thought Id'd done it before, but it must not have gotten everything. I did update all the links to the Realms-L mailing list archives, so it is possible.


 * If you want to help, you can submit some details at User talk:UnseenServantBot I can use to program it. That is, the exact, common text of every link to be changed and the exact text of what to change it to. I don't want the bot changing and breaking the wrong links, so I need a sure-fire way for it to find them.


 * For the second question, generally not, unless the link is part of a template, such as those at Category:Web citation templates and Category:Web enhancement citation templates. Change the link in the template and every page using that template will have its link updated. — BadCatMan (talk) 11:46, March 31, 2016 (UTC)