Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:58 UTC
For a non-anonymous user, if there is a "User talk" page, then a default "User" page should be created if there is none. Currently, if user Foo has no user page, a link like [[User:Foo]] will show red. If this link is clicked, then then User:Foo's home page will be opened for edit. A newbie may not realize that you can jump to the user's talk page from the edit page. This leads to confusion. Some users intentionally maintain blank user pages for the purpose of maintaining this red link. Regardless of the motivation, this is an abuse of the intent of the "red link" system, which is intended to indicate a page that needs to be created. The auto-created user page could be completely blank, or it could just contain a link to the user's talk page, or even a redirect to the talk page. However, the user page should not be deletable if a sub-page exists.
seems a pretty controversial change to me. i think if added it would either have to be optional and only turned on at the request of individual projects or broad support would have to be shown accross many projects.
I don't like this at all, the standard behaviour is to show red links for pages that don't exists regardless of if their talkpages exist, WONTFIX?
Yup i will go for WONTFIX as well. Bug reporter is assuming that "a newbie" (which eventually will learn stuff) "may" (it can just happens, not even sure). If people don't want a user page, so be it, you can still create one for them with a simple space :o)
Resolving it as WONTFIX.