Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-6261300-20160806022507/@comment-452-20160810005656

There is no need to wait, as there is no requirement for mass-operations to be completed by an account with a bot flag.

As mentioned on Help:Bots, the only thing a Bot flag does is "hides bot edits from the recent changes list." Given that you're already filling RecentChanges with deletions, it's not really going to matter if you fill it with file deletions as well.

You can do this yourself right now by: function deleteFile { var fileName = $(".TablePager_col_img_name a").attr("href").replace("/wiki/",""); console.log("deleting "+fileName); $.ajax({   type: "POST",    url: "/api.php",    data: {      token:mw.user.tokens.get("editToken"),      action: "delete",      title: fileName,      reason: "Mass deletion of old files"    },    success: function(data) {       $($(".TablePager_col_img_name a")[0]).parent.parent.remove;      window.setTimeout(deleteFile,1000); //wait one second    }  }); } deleteFile;
 * 1) Going to http://winterbells1.wikia.com/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=5000
 * 2) Open your browser console. (right click anywhere, choose "Inspect", click the "console" tab)
 * 3) Paste this:

Then refresh the page and repeat, because only 5000 can be displayed on that page at a time.