MediaWiki talk:Welcome-message-anon/en

Declining to thank people for unseen work
We can welcome people without thanking them for spam or vandalism. Where I am an admin, I object to having a machine place a message in my name on a contributor's page thanking them for an edit if that edit is spam or vandalism.

On wikis where I have more authority, I've just changed the "Thanks..." sentence in this message and the "user" one, to: Probably nobody has yet looked at your edit to the $1 page, but someone will.

I hope something of that sort can be done to the default messages, in all languages.

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:52, May 15, 2010 (UTC)