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Old anchors are broken

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with policies/adding-new-role-members.md and inspect the RST source for team.html to compare the old and current anchors. Search the project for the affected URLs and other section links. Done means old anchors either remain valid through custom anchors or every identified link points to the intended section.

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Description

Bug

I suspect it is a side effect from switch to RST in #698 . We have URLs to specific sections using anchors that are now broken links. They don't show 404 because the page still exists, but they no longer point to the sections we want them to point to.

Examples (not exhaustive):

These two are mentioned in https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/blob/main/policies/adding-new-role-members.md .

  1. Is there a way to insert custom anchors so the old URLs still work?
  2. How do we find and replace these cases with working links?
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