Board Thread:Script Suggestions/@comment-5645428-20160225053151/@comment-5645428-20160309073026

Fantastic work! Great to see you were manage to roll out the script so fast. Looking forward to improvements!

It seems the script is capable of removing links regardless of whether they have expired or not. That's a powerful ability, and as you're aware, can be potentially destructive if accidentally unleashed on a frequently linked page that's intended to be linked to that often. I would recommend a warning is always given prior to execution, be it that it's one link or one hundred links that are listed to be 'swept'.

I have some suggestions for the interface. Landing in WantedPages gives the backlink removal option for each listing. Click the button, remove the links, done, makes sense. But after entering WhatLinksHere, it again gives the option to remove backlinks. At this point, however, you aren't removing backlinks, you're in fact removing links to the page that the backlinks are located on, which would unlikely be an expected intention during maintenance. I would have assumed - and I suggest that this part of the interface is modified - that the buttons that appear next to listings on WhatLinksHere can be clicked to remove the subject of WhatLinksHere on the particular page being listed, not the link to that page itself.

The importance of being able to do this is to remove links on specific pages but not others, since there is currently no option to sweep links by a namespace they occur in. Although you're yet to configure the script to work in wall and thread namespaces yet, removing images [links] that are spammed (for a lack of better word) on the forum is among the things I could see the script being used for to great effect.

Anyway, keep working on it, and thanks for having decided to do so in the first place. You've been a great help!