Talk pages are frequently blanked or replaced by inexperienced editors making test edits or trying to vandalize, e.g. (1) (2). Such edits are generally reverted quickly, but with the introduction of Talk page archiving notifications, they now generate notifications that persist even after reversion. This is significantly more disruptive than the prior situation in which such edits and their reversions would just show up on watchlists where they were easily identified and ignored. It may be leading some editors to turn off archiving notifications overall (see T316163).

This task encompasses the work to reduce the prevalence of these notifications or otherwise minimize their annoyance. Possible approaches:

• Identify edits likely to be blanking and do not send notifications for them. (Risk: Vandalism may go unnoticed, removals may be falsely identified as spam and useful notifications not sent)
• Identify edits likely to be blanking and delay sending notifications for them by a set period, perhaps 24 hours, and do not send the notification if the edit is reverted. (Presents additional technical work; very minor risk that editors might find the delay annoying for removals falsely identified as spam, although this is unlikely because discussions ready to be archived have by definition gone stale)
• Unsend notifications if edits are reverted. (Likely presents additional technical work; also breaks the user expectation that notifications will not be rescinded once sent)