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| May 7, 2018 at 5:31 | comment | added | Clonkex | @Andre It's back online | |
| May 6, 2018 at 7:40 | comment | added | Andre | cpearson.com has changed from 404 to You do not have permission to view this directory or page., which is hopefully a good sign. | |
| May 5, 2018 at 18:12 | comment | added | Steve Rindsberg | @ashleedawg Re "Which MVPs", this is being discussed on a private MVP-only forum, but if you have info to pass along to them, I'd be happy to forward it there. Easiest way would be to email it to me; steve a-inna-circle pptools dot com | |
| May 5, 2018 at 12:44 | comment | added | ashleedawg | @Cindy - do you know which MVP's? I have be in repeated contact with the Domain Registrar (australia) and the Web Host (usa) and I have some very relevant information. This is time sensitive (hence my attempt at preserving it here). I'll host it myself if necessary but it won't get more traffic than on SO anywhere. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 19:51 | comment | added | Cindy Meister | @Andreas The Excel MVPs are looking into whether they can get the material and host it. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 19:40 | comment | added | mbrig | @Andreas It was already hosted under a free license, and the wayback machine has already made its archive. Your intent is good but probably not required. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 18:40 | vote | accept | Luuklag | ||
| May 4, 2018 at 15:20 | answer | added | Shog9StaffMod | timeline score: 80 | |
| May 4, 2018 at 14:17 | history | edited | Heretic Monkey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 4, 2018 at 10:30 | comment | added | Andreas | @Luuklag That could be the reason too. Either way I think it's better to first contact relatives and ask for permission. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 10:28 | comment | added | Luuklag | I think a more likely scenario was that he was hosting it himself, and the server went offline because of one of many reasons: Turned off by his relatives, internet connection was canceled, utility connection was canceled etc. But as @ErikvonAsmuth was sayin he might be interested in hosting it, perhaps he can find a way to come into contact with his relatives and see if they are willing to make the source files available. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 10:26 | comment | added | Andreas | I noticed yesterday the page was down and just thought "that was odd". I had no idea it was like this. Why was the page deleted this quick? Maybe it's a family member wanting to take it down. I'd say find that out first before making copies and keeping his work online. If it is family, try to reason with them. That page had some good code | |
| May 4, 2018 at 10:10 | comment | added | user202729 | If they're link only they should be deleted anyway (as MartijnPieters said above) If they're not then prepending web.archive can be useful. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 9:34 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters Mod | @Luuklag: I've already poked someone. :-) | |
| May 4, 2018 at 9:27 | comment | added | Luuklag | @MartijnPieters "died April 19, 2018, at St. Luke's Hospital from severe head injuries received in a car accident on April 8, 2018" So 04-07 was the day before, and should be an okay copy. Is there an easy way to escalate this to an SO employee? | |
| May 4, 2018 at 9:21 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters Mod |
@Luuklag: only a Stack Overflow employee could do that, but the mapping is straightforward; http://www.cpearson.com/... becomes https://web.archive.org/web/20180407/http://www.cpearson.com/..., and then the wayback engine will redirect the user to the last archived copy of that page, provided that archive was retrieved before Mr. Pearson's car accident.
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| May 4, 2018 at 9:15 | comment | added | Luuklag | @MartijnPieters, would there be a straightforward way (script) to replace all instances of the link to cpearson with a web archive version? | |
| May 4, 2018 at 9:14 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters Mod |
The wayback engine has our back: web.archive.org/web/sitemap/www.cpearson.com and web.archive.org/web/%2a/http://www.cpearson.com%2a. With over 1k posts, perhaps a developer can run a link search-and-replace those links (I'd prefix them with https://web.archive.org/web/20180407/ to ensure only archived copies from before Mr. Pearson's accident are included). There are nearly 500 captured HTML pages in the /excel/ path alone.
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| May 4, 2018 at 9:11 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters Mod | @ThomasSchremser: If the answer is truly link-only, I always honour NAA flags. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 8:31 | comment | added | Bhargav Rao Mod |
Yep. Use the url:site_url always to get all the results.
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| May 4, 2018 at 8:29 | comment | added | Luuklag | @BhargavRao, i simply entere cpearson into the searchbar. I bet that leaves out all the link's that have a different text? | |
| May 4, 2018 at 8:21 | comment | added | Cerbrus | @TZHX: yes it is | |
| May 4, 2018 at 8:19 | comment | added | Erik A | That's really unfortunate. His site held a lot of great tutorials and explanations, and all under a free license. If no-one else does, I might host the content again, since it's a pity if it's lost forever | |
| May 4, 2018 at 8:15 | comment | added | TZHX | Is the site available on wayback machine? Rather than just removing links to a valuable resource, the community could update. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 8:13 | comment | added | Bhargav Rao Mod | stackoverflow.com/search?q=url%3Awww.cpearson.com&mixed=0 I see nearly 1.2k posts | |
| May 4, 2018 at 8:05 | comment | added | Luuklag | I checked all the posts, and fortunately there were only one or two answers that got reduced in quality severely, I flagged those as NAA | |
| May 4, 2018 at 7:59 | comment | added | Luuklag | VLQ is not a flag I can cast | |
| May 4, 2018 at 7:56 | comment | added | Alon Eitan | @ThomasSchremser That's fine too - I usually post a comment saying that the link is no longer valid and then flag the answer. It gets deleted almost always | |
| May 4, 2018 at 7:53 | comment | added | Bill Tür stands with Ukraine | @AlonEitan From my experience NAA flags will be declined most of the time for link only answers. VLQ is the more appropriate flag. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 7:50 | comment | added | Alon Eitan | You can flag all the answers as NAA and the community will remove them by voting (Sorry about the technicality, it is sad. RIP) | |
| May 4, 2018 at 7:41 | history | asked | Luuklag | CC BY-SA 4.0 |