On 8 March 2013 11:42, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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.