1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/app/lib/link_details_extractor.rb b/app/lib/link_details_extractor.rb
index d2bcf0c25..fabbd244d 100644
--- a/app/lib/link_details_extractor.rb
+++ b/app/lib/link_details_extractor.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 class LinkDetailsExtractor
   include ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper
+  include LanguagesHelper
 
   # Some publications wrap their JSON-LD data in their <script> tags
   # in commented-out CDATA blocks, they need to be removed before
@@ -218,14 +219,6 @@ class LinkDetailsExtractor
     nil
   end
 
-  def valid_locale_or_nil(str)
-    return nil if str.blank?
-
-    code,  = str.split(/_-/) # Strip out the region from e.g. en_US or ja-JA
-    locale = ISO_639.find(code)
-    locale&.alpha2
-  end
-
   def link_tag(name)
     document.xpath("//link[@rel=\"#{name}\"]").map { |link| link['href'] }.first
   end