Rob Church wrote:
On 02/09/07, Raimond Spekking raimond.spekking@gmail.com wrote:
robchurch@svn.wikimedia.org schrieb:
Revision: 25394 Author: robchurch Date: 2007-09-01 17:57:55 +0000 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007)
Log Message:
Revert r25349 and offspring; the watchlist editor shows titles, not users - a contributions link is not appropriate here, nor is it useful
Sorry, I disagree with this revert. A link to the user contributions is very helpful for all users who have a lot of user pages on its watchlists (Wikipedians who welcome newbies or follow up users with copyvios etc.).
I wouldn't have reverted had the link appeared on any page dealing with the user in the context of a user, but the watchlist editor is explicitly referring to the page, not the user. Ergo, it seems completely inappropriate to me to arbitrarily change the semantics of the context in which the title is being displayed for a single namespace.
I don't really see a problem here; User: and Image: and such namespaces _are_ functionally different, which is why we often treat them a little bit differently.
It seems kind of handy to me for the tool links to include the contribs link here, and it doesn't feel out of place.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)