Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1687225-20150411185545/@comment-1251315-20150414090315

You are probably better off just deleting them. Article comments are created as separate pages in the system, so they can be deleted in the same way. Considering the number, I think a bot to delete them would be more appropriate than a user script from the Developer's Wiki.

But yes, I share Cosmic's sentiments that they should have been turned off after deleting the comments first.