I don't know how to fix an old-style character reference

I ran into some references today that are obviously old-school (i.e., obsolete), but I don't know how to fix them, other than just to substitute text names (as opposed to code references).
On: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852356/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm a trivia item makes
reference to 'ch0423162' and 'ch0491471' These obvsiously should be 'Col. Stoopnagle and Budd;. The same references are found on:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401371/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0401371/trivia
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401371/bio
and possibly elsewhere. The people involved are radio personalities who also appeared
in some films and shorts:
F. Chase Taylor (nm0852356) as Col. Stoopnagle
Budd Hulick (nm0401371) as Budd
Please let me know what I should do to replace these old codes. Thanks.

Gerald Jones, Ph.D.

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Posted 12 months ago

12 months ago

gromit82, Champion

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Gerald: Since the character pages on IMDb have all been eliminated, I believe the best you can do would be just to type in the characters' names as plain text, because in this case you know the names of the characters being referred to.

If someone found such a reference on another page and couldn't figure out what character was being referred to, they might be able to use the Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org) to figure it out, but that's not guaranteed to work. For example, http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0423162/ doesn't turn up anything on the Internet Archive.

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I don't know how to fix an old-style character reference

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