User:Evano1van/India LinkRot Fix
The following table lists commonly referenced Indian newspapers on Wikipedia and links of those sites which could possibly go dead. Please add more websites to table whose URLs needs to be recovered. It is good to replace even the links that are not dead, redirecting today as we will not end up with dead links in future should the redirect fail.
| Name | URL Pattern | Dead | Manual Recovery | List | ~ Number of Links | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Times of India | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Yes and No | -- | [1] | 1000 left | Some links continue in old domain, Some are dead, most are redirected. -- 80% Recovered |
| The Times of India | timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll | Yes | May be | [2] | 50 left | 50 Recovered |
| The New Indian Express | expressbuzz.com,www.expressbuzz.com | Yes | Possible | [3] [4] | 400 left | ~300 Recovered |
| Indian Express | www.indianexpress.com | Yes and No | Many redirects | [5] | 10000 | |
| The Hindu | www.hindu.com | No | Possible | [6] | 10000 | Hindu moved to the current www.thehindu.com, along with archives from 2006, which is safer to migrate than using hindu.com link for post-2006 links. |
| The Hindu Business Line | www.hindubusinessline.com | No | Redirects | [7] | 8000 | Avoid a redirect. |
| The Economic Times | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Yes and No | -- | [8] [9] | 10000 | Some links continue in old domain, Some are dead, most are redirected. |
| The Hindustan Times | www.hindustantimes.com/storypage | No | Redirects | [10][ | 5000 | Redirects to current urls |
| Daily Pioneer | www.dailypioneer.com | Yes | May be | [11] | 500 | There exists http://archive.dailypioneer.com/ but not sure if recovery is completely possible. |
| Deccan Chronicle | www.deccanchronicle.com | Yes and No | May be | [12] | 7000 | Some redirects, some dead links. No appearance of archives existance. Oldest 'Manmohan Singh' article in search results is in July 2012. Most are going to end up as dead links. |
| Deccan Herald | www.deccanherald.com | Yes | Possible | [13] | 5000 | http://archive.deccanherald.com/ exists, some form of manual / scripted recovery must be possible. |
| India Times Movies | movies.indiatimes.com | Yes | May be | [14] | 5000 | Might be living insides ToI, but need to dig through. |
| Manorama | english.manoramaonline.com | Yes | No | [15] | 300 | |
| Sify | www.sify.com/movies/'south-language'/review.php | No | Redirects | -- | 500 |  Done [16]
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| Screenindia | http://screen.indianexpress.com/ |