diff --git a/domains b/domains
index 9d33abd..7fe77e7 120000
--- a/domains
+++ b/domains
@@ -1 +1 @@
-roles/create-records/vars
\ No newline at end of file
+roles/manage-records/vars
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/roles/manage-records/tasks/main.yml b/roles/manage-records/tasks/main.yml
index 417598f..f43aaf5 100644
--- a/roles/manage-records/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/manage-records/tasks/main.yml
@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
 ---
 
-- name: "create records ({{domain}})"
+- name: "manage records for ({{ domain }})"
   cloudflare_dns:
     zone: "{{ domain }}"
     record: "{{ record.name }}"
     value: "{{ record.value }}"
     type: "{{ record.type }}"
-    solo: yes
-    state: present
+    solo: "{{ 'yes' if record.state in ['present'] | default(false) else omit }}"
+    state: "{{ record.state }}" # don't assume / set a default, require explicit instruction
     account_email: "{{ cf_email }}"
     account_api_token: "{{ cf_token }}"
   loop: "{{ records }}"
   loop_control:
     loop_var: record
-  when: (item.state is undefined) or (not item.state == 'absent')
diff --git a/roles/manage-records/vars/sample.yml b/roles/manage-records/vars/sample.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e406be..0000000
--- a/roles/manage-records/vars/sample.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-domain: sampledomain.local
-records:
-  - name: 'subdomain'
-    value: '127.0.0.1'
-    type: A
-  - name: 'subdomain'
-    value: '::1'
-    type: AAAA
diff --git a/roles/manage-records/vars/sampledomain.local.yml b/roles/manage-records/vars/sampledomain.local.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..914816b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/manage-records/vars/sampledomain.local.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+domain: sampledomain.local
+records:
+  - name: 'subdomain' # create a silly localhost subdomain.sampledomain.io A record (IPv4)
+    value: '127.0.0.1'
+    type: A
+    state: present
+  - name: 'subdomain' # remove equally silly subdomain.sampledomain.io AAAA record (IPv6 local)
+    value: '::1'
+    type: AAAA
+    state: absent