Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-9605025-20160630225143/@comment-5558012-20160701150823

If no people are commenting on the problem pages (which doesn't appear possible), why would you be getting a notification for them? Have you tried the "Mark all as read" option? If no one can add to them, does it really matter that you may be following them somehow? They may show up as read but once you get more notifications they should disappear.

As for other points mentioned, yes they were globally blocked (seen on contributions page). Wikia has somewhat of a comprehensive list of special pages at Special:Specialpages, sometimes you get more pages by viewing these (from the "Recent changes and logs" section -> Special:Watchlist -> Special:EditWatchlist). Blocked users can still have visible contributions (not positive about global blocks though). They tend to disappear if the contributions are deleted.