Board Thread:Script Suggestions/@comment-5645428-20160225053151/@comment-24473195-20160308224813

This is very odd. I accidentally pressed the remove backlinks button, and it actually deleted the link from a thread. I'll add a configurable limit to warn users before they cause chaos and mayhem!

A default of 5 to warn a user is fine right?

Apparently, either accidentally or not, wikia staff actually built in a way to remove these using the normal MediaWiki API. My guess is that  this happens because of links like:

* Thread:Mushue/@comment-Wikia-20150415082925

These can be safely removed by the bot without any special coding or actually going to the page and using the normal User interface, as long as you get those links from Special:Wantedpages you should be fine. Unfortunately trying to find those links manually is a problem.

My Terminator just killed zombie-links in  305 message walls  :).

So your use-case is already built in and I was overthinking things!!!