Thread:Ursuul/@comment-30965313-20170706043107/@comment-28083312-20170706043741

Oh good. Basically go into Category:Candidates for deletion, pick a file, then use Special:Whatlinkshere to get a list of pages that link to that file. Go to each page & then edit the links out. For example, I’ll walk you through it: File:318265897236478921.gif > (you can get there from the “My Tools” box at the bottom of the page) > Thread:74363 > Find the file link at Thread:74363 > edit the reply > remove the file > save. After doing that, you will have successfully removed one link. Seeing as there was only one link leading to that file, you are now done & I will be able to delete that file without creating redlinks. That means you start over at Category:Candidates for deletion & move on to the next file, until all of the files have nothing linking to them. Once you’ve done that, I can use a bot to delete all of the files within 10 seconds.