On May 3, 2006, at 2:12 AM, Pete Bartlett wrote:
Given the existence of automated listing tools, adding a note to a creator's talk page might not be a heavy burden and can only be helpful for those who are not heavy watchlist users.
That gives me an idea - what about a bot, that would go through AfD's, identify the "major contributors" (somehow) and, unless they had already commented on the page, drop a short note on their talk page. I would have not objections to that. (Except for the minor sadness of having *even more* bot-created talk page messages, but that's not really an objection... ;-) ).
Jesse Weinstein