Optim wrote:
Summary: Timwi asked to have a policy against talkpage spamming. I disagreed. Timwi replied stating "It is annoying to be bothered with impersonal requests that you have nothing to do with."
My message:
Since you had edited the article, you had some connection with the case, so it was not spamming.
This was also their (the spammer's) argument, but it's a very bad argument. I do *not* automatically have a connection with an article just because I corrected a spelling mistake. As I said, if correcting a spelling mistake automatically means I have some sort of connection to the article and people were allowed to mass-post a request to hundreds of User talk pages of spelling correctors, then I will be heavily discouraged from correcting spelling mistakes again. I cannot believe you want this to happen.
The correct place to draw attention to the Lucid dreaming Wikibook would have been [[Talk:Lucid dreaming]]. Someone who has edited the article *and* is interested in the topic -- and hence, the intended audience -- will have that article on their Watchlist.
Personally I was very happy to get this user's message regarding Lucid dreaming, and I wouldn't like people to stop informing me about articles where I have contributed because of some "spamming" policy.
Again, this is what your Watchlist is for.
Timwi