The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: Internet Links & URL's

Internet Links & URL's

The recent change of CWGC URL's has highlighted the fickle nature of the internet. A page you have linked to in a post may have moved or gone the next time you click on it. I suggest that on this forum from now on if you post a link to another website in a post then paste the relevant text too if you can.

Examples would be pasting the details from a CWGC database entry rather than a link to it. Pasting an online newspaper article as well as the link to it. (Online newspapers either remove or edit articles after a period of time. As far as I'm aware the BBC retains copies of their articles but to be on the safe side copy the text). Sometimes there may be too much information or in a format that doesn't lend itself well to copying and pasting such as on the U-Boat net site and in those cases pasting the most relevant information would do.

We should also check out old links now too so if anyone comes across a link without any text with it can they do two things

1. Please check it still works and if it does copy the text into a post on the thread.
2. If it doesn't work please let the person who posted the link or a moderator know and we can either find a new link or remove it.

Thanks

Adam

DerekR · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:58 pm Post subject:

I know that I have pasted CWGC url links on some of my Border threads but will wait to see if some sense prevails at Maidenhead before attempting to update the pages.

But just imagine how many web pages, hyperlinks, databases have been affected by the unannounced actions of the CWGC?
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kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Adam

Can you do a code search and advise how many links there are from this site with www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx and photobucket.com/albums in them?

If either organisation made changes ( as they are entirely free to do ) the result would be that the content here would vanish at a stroke.

Even if permitted, pasting in all that you suggest would surely increase bandwidth greatly.

Thanks
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Adam Brown · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:40 pm Post subject:

Jim

The number of links to CWGC isn't that great in number. In most cases people copy the text from the website rather than the URL. I'd guess we're talking a few hunded entries and in that case the new text will only be a drop in the ocean compared to the total amount of text already on the forum.

Photobucket - yes they can change the URLs which would completely ruin this forum but given the nature of a website such as Photobucket I would think it would be highly unlikely that they would do such a thing. One of their selling points is being able to convert a photo to an IMG file on a forum, If they messed around with that their members would desert them for a competitor in droves.

Regards

Adam

David McNay · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject:

An increase in bandwidth is of no concern to us. We do not host the site and we do not pay for bandwidth. There are no restriction in terms of bandwidth.

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Thanks for the info, interesting stuff.
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Jim

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

www.kinnethmont.co.uk