On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Seems like a good idea to me.  People do get talk notifications, of
course, and generally you shouldn't edit someone else's user page.

However, that's exactly why you want to be notified when someone *does*
edit your user page.  As for the talk page, it doesn't hurt, and it
gives them an idea of the point of a watchlist.

Thanks for the input everyone. 

I've filed this as a request at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49719 where we're discussing more implementation details. 

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Steven Walling
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