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

AKM sama

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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.




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. Arc Company
  3. File:Final Answer Saitama vs Goku! Analysation and Strength stats
  4. GOD (Toriko)
  5. Golden Darkness
  6. Hatenko Meru
  7. Hwan Sung-Gon
  8. Judar
  9. Lala Satalin Deviluke
  10. Meliodas
  11. Tachibana Rintaro
  12. Talk: Don Slime
  13. Teruki Hanazawa
  14. The President (The Gamer)
  15. User:Lorenzo.r.2nd/Naruto lifting feats


  16. For *********** links:

  17. Chandler
  18. Cusack
  19. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
  20. Gunha Sogiita
  21. Hiyori Kazane
  22. Hyuse
  23. Kaede Kayano
  24. Kaoru Akashi
  25. Karma Akabane
  26. Kinnikuman
  27. Kiryu Miyazawa
  28. Medaka Kurokami
  29. Misogi Kumagawa
  30. Sebastian Michaelis
  31. Transcendent Will
  32. Ushio Aotsuki


  33. For ********* links:

  34. Acacia (Toriko)
  35. Ardun
  36. Emperor Crow
  37. Kabane Kusaka
  38. Kazusa Michiru
  39. Toichiro Suzuki
  40. User:Sir Ovens/sandbox/GoH


  41. ********* that is http (not https):

  42. 666:Satan (The God of High School)
  43. Acacia (Toriko)
  44. Aiz Wallenstein
  45. Bambina
  46. Commissioner R
  47. Derous
  48. Don Slime
  49. Finn Deimne
  50. Frankenstein (Noblesse)
  51. Gilgamesh (Fate Series)
  52. Guinness
  53. Howard Phillips Lovecraft
  54. Ichiryuu
  55. Jirou
  56. Joe Yabuki
  57. Kabane Kusaka
  58. Kaka (Blue Nitro)
  59. Kenji Miyazawa
  60. Mamoru Takamura
  61. Mary (Noblesse)
  62. Mira Yoo
  63. Mori Hui
  64. Mori Jin
  65. Neo (Toriko)
  66. Okhwang
  67. Shiro (Deadman Wonderland)
  68. Sky Deer
  69. The Captain
  70. User: Dienomite22/sandbox2
  71. User: PowerToScale/GoH Maincast
  72. User:Sir Ovens/sandbox/GoH
  73. User:Sir Ovens/sandbox/GoH2


  74. For ********* links:

  75. Akim Papradon
  76. Bartholomew Kuma
  77. Caesar Clown
  78. Elven Archer Luna
  79. Itachi Uchiha
  80. Itona Horibe
  81. Misogi Kumagawa
  82. Momo Chiyoda
  83. Mr. Popo
  84. Okhwang
  85. Talk: Don Slime
  86. Talk:Monaka
  87. User:ShrekAlmighty/SANDBOX
  88. User:I am myself You are you/sasuke old calc
  89. User:Lorenzo.r.2nd/sasuke zooms past chibakus


  90. For ********.me links

  91. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Antenmaru
  92. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Aoi_Nogami
  93. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Chika_Amatori
  94. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Dorugoramon
  95. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Evariste_Galois
  96. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Gedomaru
  97. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Hellstar_Remina https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Isaac_Newton_(Choujin_Sensen)
  98. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Junichirou_Kubota
  99. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Kotarō_Yanagisawa https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_(Choujin_Sensen) https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Mitsukuni_Haninozuka
  100. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Osamu_Mikumo
  101. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Pesu
  102. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Pirako_Chin
  103. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Ren_Tao
  104. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Ryu_Umemiya
  105. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Seimei_Ketsuno
  106. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Shin_Uchiha
  107. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Shin_Uchiha
  108. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Tomo_Aizawa


  109. For fanfox.net (http):

  110. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Akabane_Kuroudo
  111. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Hayato_Furinji https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Hitomi_(Code:_Breaker)
  112. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Kenichi_Shirahama
  113. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Mikumo_Kushinada https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User:Firephoenixearl/Akabane_Kuroudo https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User:Firephoenixearl/sandbox


  114. For https:

  115. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Yuki_Takeya
  116. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Miki_Naoki

Volunteers: Tllmbrg, Duedate8898, DxGenesis, Sir Ovens, Zaratthustra, ShadowWhoWalks, Dargoo Faust, Zouken
 
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Thank you for helping out with this. I will highlight this thread.
 
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.
 
Thank you very much for the help.
 
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?
 
Wait a little with starting please. We need to get you all properly organised and given editing rights when necessary.
 
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.
 
For links in my sandbox, I can just remove them myself personally.
 
@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.
 
Someone should contact some staff members so that we have more volunteers for this and can move ahead.
 
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.
 
@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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Okay. Is somebody willing to ask all of our administrators and content moderators to help out via their wiki message walls?
 
Exams on my end are nearly complete, so if there's still more to be done here I can help later today.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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