changing comment-page-# to something like review-page-#

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When you enable pagination for comments in wordpress the typical pagination page for a comment is “comment-page-1” “comment-page-2” etc. what I want is this to appear like “review-page-1” “review-page-2” etc. (I am using comments for a reviews)

Somehow I have managed to accomplish this but there is one weird behaviour that I can’t seem to understand.

Here is how I have accomplished this.

basically what I did is wrote a custom url rewrite which matches to the default comment pagination url.

add_filter( 'rewrite_rules_array','my_insert_rewrite_rules_two' );
add_action( 'wp_loaded','my_flush_rules_two' );

// flush_rules() if our rules are not yet included
function my_flush_rules_two(){
$rules = get_option( 'rewrite_rules' );

if ( ! isset( $rules['^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/review-page/([^/]*)'] ) ) {
      global $wp_rewrite;
      $wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
      }
}

// Adding a new rule
function my_insert_rewrite_rules_two( $rules )
{
 $newrulesone = array();
 $newrulesone['^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/review-page/([0-9]{1,})'] ='index.php?name=$matches[2]&cpage=$matches[3]';
return $newrulesone + $rules;
}

I know I should not use wp_loaded but this is just for the testing purpose.So now whenever someone visit 

mywebsite.com/my_product_category/my_product_name/review-page/12

it matches to 

index.php?name=product_name&cpage=12

Comment loads and everything works if I change number to something else it also does work. but every time I load the page it automatically appends /comment-page-#/ i.e
if I try to load

mywebsite.com/my_product_category/my_product_name/review-page/12

the url in the browser changes to 

mywebsite.com/my_product_category/my_product_name/review-page/12/comment-page-12/#reviews

Here is how I generated the pagination links in my templates comment.php

$args = array(
                'base' => get_permalink().'review-page/'.'%#%',
                'add_fragment' => '#reviews' );

paginate_comments_links($args);

does anyone has ever tried something like this before. what am I doing wrong here ? is there another way ? or am doing it totally wrong ? Need help desperately.

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