On 03/08/2013 11:45 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
So, I guess there's an anti-use case here which is 'people writing new articles as a way of communicating'. What happens to the notification if the article is deleted?
Or just modifying an existing article. Like I said, I think the tool should deliberately ignore mentions in namespace 0.
As for other namespaces, it should be added to their notification queue, but it would be nice to flag it as "non-actionable" in the queue when that is known (e.g. page is deleted)
This is analogous to what happens if you have email watchlist notifications on. You get a notification when the page is edited. If it's later deleted (or even if just that revision is deleted), so be it.
Echo shouldn't give you less information simply because it controls the queue. If it did, it would also cause inconsistencies because sometimes an Echo email or push notification would already have noted the deleted mention/etc.
Matt