On 03/08/2013 10:19 AM, Luke Welling WMF wrote:
• support user links on article pages This should not trigger often, but I think it should be enabled. I'd imagine being triggered would point to a newbie who needs to be shown talk pages or some sort of harassment in vandalism, but in either case I'd like to know even if somebody else fixes it through normal patrolling.
I think it would implicitly encourage people to do it. If a patroller finds it, they can revert and (optionally) let the poster know how to start a conversation in an appropriate place.
If this is enabled, new users, who may not know how to refactor discussions, will sometimes have to figure out a way to deal with mentions in incorrect places.
Matt Flaschen