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Show the page title in the notifications about new comments in subscribed topics
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Description

The message discussiontools-notification-subscribed-new-comment-header shows only the topic title and not the page title. This often makes the following difficult. For example, many Wikipedia articles may have talk page sections such as "Notability" or "Article title", and within the context of the whole talk page it's clear what article do they belong to, but in the notification area it's less clear: if you follow several "Notability" discussions, it's unclear from the notification what page is it talking about, especially if you follow several Notability discussions.

In fact, the page title already seems to be passed to the message as $3, but it's not actually used. Is there a particular reason for that? If not, simply adding ... on the page $3 to the message will probably be enough, but maybe I'm missing something.

Event Timeline

Mention notifications include the section title and page title as well. There only downside is that it makes the notification title longer, usually taking it from 2 lines to 3.

That said we also haven't had many complaints along these lines..

We originally copied all our notifications from Flow, so the original decision behind this is probably buried in some ancient task.