Hi,

please can we introduce a policy against spamming of User talk pages?

It seems to have become a habit of people to take the revision history of some page and spam everybody's User take page with a request that is vaguely related to that page.

As an example, someone wanted to create a Wikibook on [[Lucid dreaming]]. To find contributors, they spammed the User talk pages of all Wikipedians who had previously edited the Wikipedia article on [[Lucid dreaming]]. This is particularly annoying because they didn't even care to check if any of the edits might have been only a spelling correction (like mine was).

Today (or yesterday, whatever), [[User:Zanimum]] spammed loads of User talk pages in an attempt to find someone to "send out the press release". I have no idea what that means, and I don't even care, but I'd really rather not be bothered with these things just because I have corrected a spelling mistake.

If this continues, then people will eventually be discouraged from correcting spelling mistakes (or making similarly minor improvements) for fear of being spammed with random requests on their User talk page.

Thanks, Timwi