Editing Eurovision Wiki:External links/Noticeboard (section)

== networkdvd.net ==

This is something I’ll work on tomorrow when I’m on a computer rather than my phone, but since there are ~40 links to it that I can see with an insource: search, I thought I’d draw further attention to [https://www.cordbusters.co.uk/network-back-with-a-sad-twist/ this news story] about the hijacking of this domain. • [[User talk:A Frantic Turtle|'''a&nbsp;frantic&nbsp;turtle''']]&nbsp;🐢 21:54, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

:@[[User:A Frantic Turtle|A Frantic Turtle]], please copy this message to [[Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests]].  @[[User:GreenC|GreenC]] may be able to have a bot deal with all of these for you. [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 22:01, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
::Done, with thanks. • [[User talk:A Frantic Turtle|'''a&nbsp;frantic&nbsp;turtle''']]&nbsp;🐢 22:09, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
:::I've been through and manually changed most of them to url-status=usurped, adding an archive link. The rest were either links to the front page or to searches on the old website, so I've just removed those entirely. (A couple were naked adverts, so they're gone too now). A ''lot'' of the references were in rubbish formats that I don't think a bot could get to grips with, which is fairly typical for our articles on TV shows, alas.
:::The hijacked site has taken a copy of the last working version of the real site, so people may not realise it's actually now a scam and add new links to it in future. I don't think there's a way of preventing this? I'd assume that vigilance will have to suffice. (I'll cc this to Link rot too). • [[User talk:A Frantic Turtle|'''a&nbsp;frantic&nbsp;turtle''']]&nbsp;🐢 11:48, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
::::Spammy pages are often eligible for inclusion in the [[Wikipedia:Spam blacklist]]. [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 19:21, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
:::::Yeah, but the existing links (including the archive links because of how the regex works) would have to be removed entirely before the url string could be added to [[WP:BED]]. If they aren't, any time someone edits the page, they'd have to remove the url anyway before they could save it – and the real but now sadly dead site has a lot of accurate and unique information on it... something that our TV show articles desperately need. Damned if we do, damned if we don't! • [[User talk:A Frantic Turtle|'''a&nbsp;frantic&nbsp;turtle''']]&nbsp;🐢 20:04, 5 March 2026 (UTC)