Regulars/Board Guides Help Needed! (Again)

MSE_Martin

Last night the techie team restored all of the old posts they could to the Forum. There's not much missing at all now we think - and from this point on there's nothing left to restore - so anything important missing now will have to be replaced manually. Luckily though; as mentioned this should be fine.

However with the vastness of the Forum; it's quite difficult to spot things missing, so I need your help.

1. Are there any missing threads/post?

There shouldn't be many as the restore should've recovered these, but can you report it here if you spot any that are important.

2. Are there any updated posts that are now out of date?

Any pre-June posts that were updated (ie someone has edited them) will have reverted to their pre-June state. These may've been changed by the original poster; board guides; or the MSE Team. Are any of these missing crucial info that needs to be replaced... if so can you pls report it here.

3. Any one got a spare half hour or so to help?

We need to check that all the Forum links in the articles are now working; its a big job for us and we could do with some help. If you have some spare time and can help it'd be great.

If you are volunteering, please just reply below saying which section of the main site (e.g. family and health) you can do, so that no one else duplicates it, and then go to the section and click every Forum link and discussion link in the article, then if any are missing pls let us know so we can replace it).

I'm really glad we've got the Forum back to almost normal, your help for the last step would be fantastic

Huge in advance thanks

Martin

PS Yes I know the techies have forgotten to take the urgent note of the top of the forum; they're still sleeping after working late to restore the forum; once they're up I've asked them to take it down.

Browntoa

off to check Utilities and phones

found

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/no-more-junk

Under "What about Emails" link to Martins Money Tips is broken

all else seems fine

Burlesque_Babe

I'll make a start on DFW, although anyone wanting to join me is more than welcome


EDIT:

All the step-by-step links/One on One/Update links are working
Forum Announcement ok
Stickie link fine and all the links in the stickie work fine

Anything else need checking on DFW?

BritBrat

I dont mind helping.


Protect your pocket ALL LINKS direct from this page are OK

Give yourself a Money Makeover

Cut your household bills
Make Me Rich OK
Budget Planner OK
Cheapest Gas & Elec plus cashback OK
Supermarket Secrets: Cheaper Food Shopping OK
Council Tax: Check your band OK
Cheapest Home Phone OK
Childcare Vouchers OK
Cheapest Boiler Cover OK
Cheapest International Calls OK
Water Meters OK
Sky & Virgin Media TV Cost Cutting OK

Cut the cost of your debts
Best Balance Transfers OK
Remortgage Guide OK
Existing Loan Cost Cutting OK
Cheaper Loan Insurance OK
Loan Insurance Reclaiming OK
Danger Minimum Repayments OK
Pay Off Debts With Savings OK

Cut your personal bills
Virgin Active, Cannons & LA Fitness OK
Cheapest Mobile Phones OK
Free Texts OK
Best Bank Accounts OK
Cheaper Prescriptions & Medications OK
Top Instant Access Savings OK
Top Cash ISAs OK
Cheaper Contact Lenses OK
Cheapest Petrol OK
Cheapest Train Fares OK


Forum: Relevant Boards:

Cutting Tax:

Council Tax Cost Cutting: reduce your band and grab any discounts Discussion Area OK
Council Tax Cashback: reduce your band and save £1000s. OK
Council tax rebanding successes discussion. OK
initial thread OK

Council Tax Rebanding SUCCESS stories
Council Tax Cashback OK
Discussion on Council Tax Cost Cutting OK

TaxCalc alternative?
http://www.moneyforums.co.uk/uk_tax_calc.php OK


Useful Websites

Cashwise 404 Error
Citizens Advice OK
Financial Ombudsman OK
Inland Revenue OK
Payslip Calculator NOT SURE?
Taxation Web OK
Taxback Forms (R40/R85) OK
Working Lunch OK
http://www.acas.org.uk OK
http://www.taxcentral.co.uk/taxcentral/home/reference/calculators/default.asp OK
http://www.grant-thornton.co.uk/pages/publications_and_events-budget-personal_tax_calculator The page cannot be found
http://www.thepensionservice.gov.uk/atoz/atozdetailed/homeres.asp OK
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/life/tax.htm OK
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/rates/ OK

VISIT HERE FIRST - Quick Links

Claiming Tax Back (please read whole thread) OK
Company Car Tax OK
Company Car Tax OK
Council Tax Discussion Area OK
How does the Taxman Know? OK
Import Duty on Internet Orders OK
Inheritance Tax Planning OK
National Insurance OK
PAYE Coding OK
R85 Form Discussion Area / advice/experience of dealing with this form? POSSIBLE MISSING

Useful Tools to Help With Taxes
Tax Code Checker : This service is currently unable to process your request
Payslip Checker OK
Company Car Calculator OK
Washing Uniform at Home OK

New Board: Tax instructions - please read OK

Benefits & Tax Credits

Employment and Jobseeking OK
Employment & Jobseeking USEFUL LINKS OK

Child Support OK
Child Support USEFUL LINKS OK

Benefits and Tax Credits OK
Great Grants Hunt OK
tax credit overpayments new report published OK

Money for 16yr olds in school & college
Wales - EMA The page cannot be found
England - EMA OK
Northern Ireland - EMA OK
Scotland - EMA OK

5 minute benefit check up Article Discussion Area OK

Quick Benefits Check OK
www.entitledto.com OK
Benefits and Tax Credits FAQ OK
WELCOME & FAQ's Benefits, Tax Credits & Jobseeking OK

Its about helping people get their entitlement! Not about benefits policy! OK
Discussion Board OK

Offering Help! OK
Tax Credits - jamiebraund OK

Links to questions that have already been asked on this board OK
Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Industrial Injuries OK
Carers & Carer's Allowance OK
Advice about benefits for familes of disabled children OK
Tax Credits (Working Tax Credits & Child Tax Credit) OK
Child Benefit, Children & Benefits, Child Support Agency (CSA) OK
Seperation & Relationship Breakdown OK
Income Support & Jobseekers Allowance OK
Incapacity Benefit, Statutory Sick Pay, Prescriptions OK
Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, C.Tax, Other Housing Issues OK
Mortgages & Benefits OK
What Benefit can I claim? OK
Redundancy OK
Fraud OK
Living together as partners/moving in as partners (on benefits) OK
Self Employed OK
Free, Grants & Concessions while on benefits OK
Students & Benefits OK
Capital, Income & Savings - On Benefits OK
Jobseeking OK
Save money on Income Support, Jobseekers, Tax Credits OK

Note: OK = just the direct link.

MSE_Martin

Thanks so much to all above

BritBrat - How about Protect your pocket - and do let us know about any links that are bad not just new bad ones

Martin

Former_MSE_Andrea

If someone could do Credit Cards and Loans (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cards/) that would be a huge help.

Just as a reminder, most (but not all) discussion links from articles would have been started by a member of the MSE Team so if you look and they're not can you post the link here letting us know which article it's in?

Andrea

Edinburghlass_2

This link leads to the temp thread I started, well done whoever changed that link, Wendy? :T, but I deleted that thread this morning.


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Either way, you’ve a legal right to do this under the Data Protection Act. If you don't know where to write to, MoneySavers have compiled a list of [/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]data protection addresses[/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] which should help.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]This is the original link that can now be replaced...[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=400981[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Rest of the main Reclaim Article is fine and I'll check the others later.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]**update, its the same in the Credit Card reclaiming article the address link needs changing**[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]**update 2, the rest of Credit Card reclaiming is okay**[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]**update 3, I've restored my temp Help Thread meantime and I'll delete it again when the links are sorted **[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]**update 4, PPI reclaiming all okay **[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]**update 5, the OFT article is all okay apart from the fact that the Downing Street petition closed on 13 November**[/FONT]

sindy_2

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

If someone could do Credit Cards and Loans (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cards/) that would be a huge help.

Just as a reminder, most (but not all) discussion links from articles would have been started by a member of the MSE Team so if you look and they're not can you post the link here letting us know which article it's in?

Andrea

Will do it now

Mrs_pbradley936

I will do Insurance and Life Assurance

sindy_2

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

If someone could do Credit Cards and Loans (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cards/) that would be a huge help.

Just as a reminder, most (but not all) discussion links from articles would have been started by a member of the MSE Team so if you look and they're not can you post the link here letting us know which article it's in?

Andrea

In this link there are 3 Non working links http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cards/reward-cards-alphabetically

Amex Blue
Ulster Bank Gold
Ulster Bank

IvanOpinion

Martin, in a development a while back we used a 'crawler' to do this very task for us. I think we initially used a product called 'xenu (see here - note that in true MSE fashion it is a free download) which worked very well for simple hTML pages. We did also write our own as well though (there were some problems with the way Xenu worked in relation to the SPPS/CMS generated URLs)

Ivan