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Links to non existent user pages from notifications are not displaying the appropriate error page and user name is sometimes presented as null
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Ask @scblr to ping you on his talk page
  • Go to notifications
  • Click Scblr
  • Go back to notifications
  • Click Scblr's talk page
  • Click null

What happens?:
Scblr's name is written as null, when you click null, it takes you to a Wikipedia article or random tab

What should have happened instead?:
Scblr name should be presented in User talk instead of null and the page should take you to an error page that says the user hasn't created a page yet

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
version 2.7.50418-r-2022-08-08

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

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