Remove broken cross-domain doc/handbook links (rm3-en-us-4) [5/11]
Cross-domain link hygiene — remove dead doc/handbook links (rm3-en-us-4) (5/11)
Removes internal links pointing to moved or removed docs.gitlab.com / handbook.gitlab.com pages. These are dead for real users (docs 302-bounce to a login/auth page, handbook returns 404) with no server-side redirect to the new page, so each link is unwrapped to plain text — the anchor text is kept, only the dead link and its analytics attributes are dropped.
- Files changed: 100 · Links removed: 209 · Scope:
rm3-en-us-4(disjoint file set — no conflict with sibling MRs)
How "dead" was determined: each target URL is absent from the docs/handbook XML sitemaps (authoritative live-page lists) and confirmed via browser fetch (curl is Cloudflare-blocked here).
Not included: broken links inside YAML CTA buttons are left untouched for a separate manual/marketing decision; they're catalogued in the audit notes.
Related to #1878 (closed) #1878 (closed)