Forum move project: Replacing links to illegal scanlation sites from profile pages

[AKM sama]

As mentioned in this thread, this is another project after which we can start allowing CRTs. We got a list of pages containing illegal links that need to be replaced, from a SOAP member. We require volunteers for this project so we can get it done. This is important because such links can cause legal trouble for the wiki and these pages can't be edited as long as these links are present in them.

We need to go through these pages and:

1. Find all illegal links from manga scanlation sites
2. Open those links as images (you can copy-paste those links on another tab and then right-click on the image and select "open image in another tab")
3. Upload them on imgur (you can paste the original image link on imgur for this)
4. Replace the original link with the imgur link on the profiles.

If for some reason step 2 does not work on any manga hosting site, you'll just have to manually screencap the image and upload it to the wiki or imgur.

Keep in mind, the edit won't go through until and unless you have handled all the illegal links in a page, you can always go back and continue editing from where you left, if you miss some of the links. Also, please do NOT just remove the illegal links, you strictly have to replace them with imgur links.

Abstractions has already handled quite a lot of workload of this project too while the move was happening: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User:AKM_sama/sandbox

Above is the list of all the pages she has handled (with a little help from me), and she has also volunteered to take care of the pages listed at the bottom of that list, which my bot failed to edit while updating the vs thread links because they contained illegal links. So she has to replace the illegal links as well as update the vs thread links.

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Here is the list of pages still left to edit (keep in mind that there can be links to multiple illegal scanlation sites in a single page and some of them may be repeated):

1. For ********** links:
2. 
   
3. Arc Company
4. File:Final Answer Saitama vs Goku! Analysation and Strength stats
5. GOD (Toriko)
6. Golden Darkness
7. Hatenko Meru
8. Hwan Sung-Gon
9. Judar
10. Lala Satalin Deviluke
11. Meliodas
12. Tachibana Rintaro
13. Talk: Don Slime
14. Teruki Hanazawa
15. The President (The Gamer)
16. User:Lorenzo.r.2nd/Naruto lifting feats
17. 
    
18. 
    
19. For *********** links:
20. 
    
21. Chandler
22. Cusack
23. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
24. Gunha Sogiita
25. Hiyori Kazane
26. Hyuse
27. Kaede Kayano
28. Kaoru Akashi
29. Karma Akabane
30. Kinnikuman
31. Kiryu Miyazawa
32. Medaka Kurokami
33. Misogi Kumagawa
34. Sebastian Michaelis
35. Transcendent Will
36. Ushio Aotsuki
37. 
    
38. 
    
39. For ********* links:
40. 
    
41. Acacia (Toriko)
42. Ardun
43. Emperor Crow
44. Kabane Kusaka
45. Kazusa Michiru
46. Toichiro Suzuki
47. User:Sir Ovens/sandbox/GoH
48. 
    
49. 
    
50. ********* that is http (not https):
51. 
    
52. 666:Satan (The God of High School)
53. Acacia (Toriko)
54. Aiz Wallenstein
55. Bambina
56. Commissioner R
57. Derous
58. Don Slime
59. Finn Deimne
60. Frankenstein (Noblesse)
61. Gilgamesh (Fate Series)
62. Guinness
63. Howard Phillips Lovecraft
64. Ichiryuu
65. Jirou
66. Joe Yabuki
67. Kabane Kusaka
68. Kaka (Blue Nitro)
69. Kenji Miyazawa
70. Mamoru Takamura
71. Mary (Noblesse)
72. Mira Yoo
73. Mori Hui
74. Mori Jin
75. Neo (Toriko)
76. Okhwang
77. Shiro (Deadman Wonderland)
78. Sky Deer
79. The Captain
80. User: Dienomite22/sandbox2
81. User: PowerToScale/GoH Maincast
82. User:Sir Ovens/sandbox/GoH
83. User:Sir Ovens/sandbox/GoH2
84. 
    
85. 
    
86. For ********* links:
87. 
    
88. Akim Papradon
89. Bartholomew Kuma
90. Caesar Clown
91. Elven Archer Luna
92. Itachi Uchiha
93. Itona Horibe
94. Misogi Kumagawa
95. Momo Chiyoda
96. Mr. Popo
97. Okhwang
98. Talk: Don Slime
99. Talk:Monaka
100. User:ShrekAlmighty/SANDBOX
101. User:I am myself You are you/sasuke old calc
102. User:Lorenzo.r.2nd/sasuke zooms past chibakus
103. 
     
104. 
     
105. For ********.me links
106. 
     
107. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Antenmaru
108. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Aoi_Nogami
109. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Chika_Amatori
110. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Dorugoramon
111. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Evariste_Galois
112. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Gedomaru
113. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Hellstar_Remina https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Isaac_Newton_(Choujin_Sensen)
114. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Junichirou_Kubota
115. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Kotarō_Yanagisawa https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_(Choujin_Sensen) https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Mitsukuni_Haninozuka
116. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Osamu_Mikumo
117. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Pesu
118. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Pirako_Chin
119. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Ren_Tao
120. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Ryu_Umemiya
121. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Seimei_Ketsuno
122. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Shin_Uchiha
123. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Shin_Uchiha
124. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Tomo_Aizawa
125. 
     
126. 
     
127. For fanfox.net (http):
128. 
     
129. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Akabane_Kuroudo
130. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Hayato_Furinji https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Hitomi_(Code:_Breaker)
131. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Kenichi_Shirahama
132. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Mikumo_Kushinada https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User:Firephoenixearl/Akabane_Kuroudo https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User:Firephoenixearl/sandbox
133. 
     
134. 
     
135. For https:
136. 
     
137. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Yuki_Takeya
138. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Miki_Naoki

Volunteers: Tllmbrg, Duedate8898, DxGenesis, Sir Ovens, Zaratthustra, ShadowWhoWalks, Dargoo Faust, Zouken

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you for helping out with this. I will highlight this thread.

 

[Antvasima]

Also, big thanks to @Abstractions for helping out so much.

 

[Antvasima]

And if the manga scanlation sites in question have shut down, I would greatly appreciate if you can search for and save the relevant images/manga pages via other sites.

The image links usually contain chapter and page numbers, so it should not be impossible.

 

[Tllmbrg]

I can volunteer

Just send me at high priority pages

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you very much for the help.

 

[Duedate8898]

I'll volunteer for this as well

 

[GyroNutz]

I've seen links to **************** too on some profiles, so that's worth flagging.

 

[DxGenesis]

I want to participate too.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

There’s probably PokeSpe profiles that use these.

 

[Sir_Ovens]

I'll do anything to get to post CRTs quicker.

 

[DxGenesis]

For now I'll upload as many pages to imgur as possible and post their links here:

 

[DxGenesis]

Also, as a sidenote, it seems some of those sites contain malware so you should be careful going in there.

 

[Epiccheev]

In case it helps, i checked the pages on OPM verse for illegal sites/broken links and this is what i found.
I already uploaded them to imgur, so all that really needs to be done is replacing the links in the mentioned places
1. Tatsumaki's tech manip, her weakness
2.Gouketsu/Bakuzan/Choze's longevity
3.Saitama's resistance to ESP
4.Sonic's speed 1 speed 2
5. Metal bat's "can become stronger with each hit he takes"
6.Sweet mask's Stamina
7.Metal Knight's prep

 

[DxGenesis]

In case it helps, i checked the pages on OPM verse for illegal sites/broken links and this is what i found.
I already uploaded them to imgur, so all that really needs to be done is replacing the links in the mentioned places
1. Tatsumaki's tech manip, her weakness
2.Gouketsu/Bakuzan/Choze's longevity
3.Saitama's resistance to ESP
4.Sonic's speed 1 speed 2
5. Metal bat's "can become stronger with each hit he takes"
6.Sweet mask's Stamina
7.Metal Knight's prep

Can I add your links to the pastebin I made above?

 

[Epiccheev]

Sure

 

[Antvasima]

Wait a little with starting please. We need to get you all properly organised and given editing rights when necessary.

 

[Antvasima]

Also, as a sidenote, it seems some of those sites contain malware so you should be careful going in there.

I would recommend using Firefox, and the uBlock Origin plugin, preferably combined with Bitdefender and Malwarebytes, and possibly a VPN service. You can also use the NoScript plugin for extra security, but then you will have to constantly check it to see which pages that you are willing to accept scripts from whenever you visit new websites, or they will not load for you.

 

[Sir_Ovens]

For links in my sandbox, I can just remove them myself personally.

 

[Antvasima]

@Sir_Ovens

It is much better if you replace the links to scans with ones to accepted sites such as Imgur or the wiki itself instead.

 

[AKM sama]

Someone should contact some staff members so that we have more volunteers for this and can move ahead.

 

[Zaratthustra]

I can help too with this but shouldn't we make it a bit more organized like it was done for vsbattle links? This to not create conflict with others and to know which are done and not.

 

[Sir_Ovens]

@Antvasima I intend to do a revision for the verse anyway, so I can replace the image links myself on top of adding additional image links for other things.

 

[Antvasima]

Someone should contact some staff members so that we have more volunteers for this and can move ahead.

In extremely important situations, higher ranking staff members can give many other staff members notifications at once by using the @Username command.

 

[Antvasima]

I can help too with this but shouldn't we make it a bit more organized like it was done for vsbattle links? This to not create conflict with others and to know which are done and not.

Yes, of course, but we need more volunteers first.

 

[Antvasima]

@Antvasima I intend to do a revision for the verse anyway, so I can replace the image links myself on top of adding additional image links for other things.

Okay. That seems fine then.

 

[Sir_Ovens]

If no one else is willing to, I'm down to just do it all myself.

 

[Antvasima]

There is way too much to do for you alone, but feel free to place notifications on the wiki message walls of all our administrators, content moderators, and discussion moderators with a link to this thread, while telling them that it is extremely important that we finish this project, so we can open up the wiki and allow content revision threads again.

 

[AKM sama]

There are only around 100 pages, we already have 5 volunteers. If we can get 5 more, this could be finished quickly and without a hassle.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. Is somebody willing to ask all of our administrators and content moderators to help out via their wiki message walls?

 

[ShadowWhoWalks]

I volunteer.

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you.

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

Exams on my end are nearly complete, so if there's still more to be done here I can help later today.

 

[Antvasima]

Thanks.

 

[Zoey_of_Scadrial]

I can help. Just can't promise I will make massive contributions. Am going to sleep soon now, can start tomorrow

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

I'm aware this hasn't really started properly yet, however I decided to remove links from these profiles:

Gilgamesh (Fate Series)
Meliodas
Toichiro Suzuki
Frankenstein (Noblesse)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Ichiryuu
Jirou
Joe Yabuki

Will report back here if I decide to do some more.

 

[DxGenesis]

The blogspot links stay or go?

 

[Sir_Ovens]

Blogspot should be fine.

 

[Antvasima]

I'm aware this hasn't really started properly yet, however I decided to remove links from these profiles:

Gilgamesh (Fate Series)
Meliodas
Toichiro Suzuki
Frankenstein (Noblesse)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Ichiryuu
Jirou
Joe Yabuki

Will report back here if I decide to do some more.

@Dargoo_Faust

You should definitely not remove the links. You should replace them with links to the same individual images uploaded to Imgur, the wiki itself, or some other reliable storing site.

I would greatly appreciate if you and everybody else who have done the former undo all of your relevant edits, and apply the correct option instead. Thank you.

 

[Antvasima]

Blogspot should be fine.

Blogspot seems fine, yes.