Thread:Ursuul/@comment-24634078-20171011170201/@comment-28083312-20171011215114

Right so, when you want to clear the links heading to a given page (or pages) open up the panel & add each page (one per line) to the top. “Enter a reason” is the edit summary that the bot executes when used to clear links to a given page(s) (remember the main purpose of this script is to remove links to a certain page before deleting it to avoid creating redlinks). Namespace allows you to define which namespace to clear the links from. “Fetch from category” allows you to auto-fill the top field with pages from a certain category (instead of manually typing them all out). You do this by pressing “Add category content” (if it’s set to “Custom,” it will ask you to input a category name, otherwise it will use the one selected). “Delete link” tells the script whether to totally remove the link & its text, or to just remove the link but leave the text behind. Clicking “show backlinks” (or “show redlinks” if the page is already deleted) will fill the “report” field with a list of pages that will be effected so that you can make sure the bot won’t go overboard. “Remove backlinks” executes the function. It should be noted that the auto-populate functionality via adding categories is bugged, so adding each page manually may be the only way to use it properly. That said everything else works, but you should also note that script-bound bots (in general) cannot distinguish template links from in-line links, so if the link is generated via template, it will gloss over the link & fail to remove it (therefore you will need to edit the template itself, which LinkSweeper sometimes does). It should also be noted that no one, not even bot titans like Flightmare, have been able to figure out a way to automatically edit threads. So if threads are populated in the list, the bot will not be able to remove those, that’ll have to be done manually.