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5:47 AM
As mentioned in the boulevard, several requests for bulk replacement are now tagged .
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Q: Updated: Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?

Peter LeFanu LumsdaineThis question from March 2020 points out that many questions/answers link to papers at the http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ frontend instead of at the arXiv itself, but that the frontend had been down a few weeks. There are c.600 affected questions and it looks like a large proportion of the links...

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Q: Suggestion to mass-replace links to http://math.uga.edu/~pete

Martin SleziakLinks to various files starting with http://math.uga.edu/~pete and http://www.math.uga.edu/~pete no longer work, but they can be fixed by changing the start to http://alpha.math.uga.edu/~pete. Here are a few examples of such edits done manually: one, two, three. (Other examples can be found using...

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Q: Updating links upon site migration of https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum

Arnold NeumaierMany links on the SE physics site presently go to my old web address: http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum and https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum This web site migrated to a new place, http://arnold-neumaier.at I'd therefore like to ask the moderators to update all affected URLs. I'd also like to h...

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Q: Can we use the link replacement tool to fix links to English-corpora.org?

LaurelContext: Due to some sort of falling out, the Corpus of Contemporary English, British National Corpus, and several others moved from corpus.byu.org to english-corpora.org and changed their collective name, formerly being referred to as the "BYU Corpora". We cite them pretty often. According to my...

 
 
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8:52 AM
This is great!
As an aside, Physics is now taken care of with respect to the broken springerlink.com links.
 
 
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9:56 AM
There were only five questions where the tag status-planned was added just now - four of them are about fixing links.
 
10:07 AM
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A: Wasserstein distance in R^d from one dimensional marginals

R WThere is a result which contains an answer to your question in a somewhat different form. Instead of the transportation metric it uses another metric which metrizes the weak topology in the space of measures on $\mathbb R^d$: $$ \lambda(\mu,\nu) \le \delta \iff \exists\; T\ge 1/\delta : \langle \...

> PS In spite of a sufficiently long tradition of misnaming the transportation metric (some people even go as far as calling it after Hutchinson), I would still insist on using the name of Kantorovich (or Monge-Kantorovich, Kantorovich-Rubinshtein), see, for instance, this historical article.
When replacing a broken eom.springer.de link, is the best strategy to use Wayback Machine, or is there some better option? The link is eom.springer.de/w/w120020.htm in this case.
From Wayback Machine is see that it is the article about Wasserstein metric.
So I should use https://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Wasserstein_metric encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Wasserstein_metric as the replacement.
 
 
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11:20 AM
@Martin Yes, I would use https://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Wasserstein_metric in this case as the replacement. The Wayback Machine seems to be reliable for finding the original articles that the eom.springer.de articles used to link to: it is what I have been using for all my fixes.
@Martin In your edit, it seems you replaced the broken link to eom.springer.de with a link to the question itself. Probably something went wrong with your clipboard? Thought I should bring it to your attention.
 
11:38 AM
@TheAmplitwist Thanks for noticing that - I am not really sure what I was doing.
 
11:51 AM
Ah, happens to the best of us, I'm sure.
 

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