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Unwanted notifications generated by Subscribe button interacting with transclusion
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Description

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

  • (Editor 1) uses "Subscribe" on a section in [[User talk:Pagename]]
  • (Editor 2) adds {{User talk:Pagename}} on any unrelated pagename
  • (Editor 2) removes the transclusion.

What happens?:
Editor 1 will get a notification about "Section was removed from a page you followed"

What should have happened instead?:
There should have been no notification

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
This can effectively send mass pings sent to everyone who subscribes to any highly watched noticeboard. The impact of vandalism is significant.