With due thanks, I would like to specifically point to these two bugs, as I believe they're changing the style of talking unnecessarily. I would like you to see the potential for fixing these early.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49446 - Notifications: Linking a username in an Edit-Summary should trigger a notification https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30750 - Notify user when username used in an edit summary
gry