# Broken url normalization for Patreon
**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/broken-url-normalization-for-patreon/813827
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Created:** [December 3, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/broken-url-normalization-for-patreon/813827 "2025-12-03T20:54:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@fabi123](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/fabi123)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/broken-url-normalization-for-patreon/813827/1 "2025-12-03T20:54:28Z")
Url normalization for Patreon is broken. When trying to add [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BereniceElenion](https://www.patreon.com/cw/BereniceElenion) to [Elenion - MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dace7d8f-59cb-454d-9791-29050ffacfc8) , it tries to normalize to [https://www.patreon.com/cw](https://www.patreon.com/cw), which is a broken link.
Manually changing the url to [https://www.patreon.com/BereniceElenion](https://www.patreon.com/BereniceElenion), and then adding it does resolve this, but imo this should be fixed in toe normalization routine.
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### Author:  [@reosarevok](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/reosarevok)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/broken-url-normalization-for-patreon/813827/2 "2025-12-04T14:16:26Z")
Hmm. I think these `/cw` links are new, we hadn’t seen them before. Any idea what they are and how they differ from normal Patreon links? It seems following some links from the Patreon search takes me to a `/cw` link, while others do not. We should in any case support it, yes - probably just drop it and use the link without it since it will redirect as needed, but it would still be good to know what they mean 🙂
I added [an issue](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-14202) to our ticket tracker.