At wikiHow we have people get a notification e-mail when someone leaves a message on their talk page, only if the message isn't a template, though. This is separate from watchlist notifications (which are off by default).

A lot of people reply directly to the e-mail thinking it'll go to the person who sent the message, so if this can't be made to happen, it's good to have someone on the receiving end of those messages to explain to the person that they need to leave their response on the other person's talk page, so that opportunity for interaction isn't lost.

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On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Basically what Brandon said; it should be the default.

On 17 June 2013 23:36, Brandon Harris <bharris@wikimedia.org> wrote:

        This isn't even something to have a conversation about.  Not doing this defeats the purpose of half of what we plan to do with new users.

On Jun 17, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> Over the weekend, I was reminded that we don't have accounts watch their user page and user talk page by default. (I was actually surprised to hear this, and had to go create a test account to confirm.)
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> What do people think about this, and maybe changing the default to be the opposite? Especially with Echo, you get notified if someone leaves you a message, so maybe it's not a problem. However, it seems like a strange default to not watch these pages.
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