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Improve Topic Subscription support for discussions that are merged, moved, or deleted
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Description

This task tracks the work involved with ensuring people are made aware when a discussion they have subscribed to has been changed in a way that could prevent them from receiving further notifications about it.

Cases

IDDescriptionTicket
#1Ensure people continue to receive notifications when a template is added to close discussionT299516
#2Notify people when a discussion they are subscribed to is moved to another page (e.g. archived), deleted, merged into another discussion or brokenT299657
#3Offer people the ability to visit the page the discussion they were subscribed to has been moved toT315050
#4Notify people when the discussion they are subscribed to is merged into another discussionT315051

Background

Current experience (before any work on the above is done)
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Event Timeline

I have some concerns about the notifications that were just introduced for topic archiving. Quoting myself from here:

The talk page discussion archiving notifications that were recently introduced don't strike me as particularly helpful, and I'm not sure I'd suggest including them on by default. Most of the time, it seems the subscription transfers to the archive page, so telling me I might no longer get notifications for it seems misleading. On usefulness, most of the time, it seems that discussions have naturally concluded by the time they're archived, so it's just a nuisance. And in the times when things are more dicey, I worry that the notification could spur participants in a dispute to take up again an issue they had previously dropped, leading to WP:STICK violations. Lastly, when I clicked "stop getting notifications like this", it didn't give me any confirmation feedback, so I wasn't sure it actually worked, or how to turn it back on again if I wanted to (although I managed to find it in the settings when I searched).