User:WhaleyTim

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High Peak, Derbyshire, England

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Maritime Disasters
UK Waterways
Golf

Professional Interests

Maritime & Offshore Safety
Voice Alarm & Evacuation Systems
Safety Critical & Safety Related Systems & Software

Wikipedia Interests

Articles relating to Derbyshire and the Peak District
RMS Titanic
Golf and its history
Occasional vandalism patrol

Sandboxes for major edits

Fixing links to the English Place-Name Society database

A number of English place articles have references to the English Place-Name Society database at Nottingham University for the origins of the name. Unfortunately the database has been recently moved, and so the links now fail.

For example, the origin of "Yeardsley cum Whaley" , referenced in Whaley Bridge, was at

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczappdv/epnnewmap/detailpop.php?placeno=11721

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nottingham.ac.uk%2F%7Ecczappdv%2Fepnnewmap

but is now at

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezins/kepn/detailpop.php?placeno=11721

Is there any way of automating (or semi-automating) the task of fixing these links?

WhaleyTim (talk) 10:54, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

You can find the pages containing http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ by using Special:LinkSearch; see [1]. You can do aemi-automated editing with WP:AWB. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 11:09, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Gadget850 - I'll give that a try. WhaleyTim (talk) 11:12, 24 August 2011 (UTC)