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Blocks don't show up in watchlist if user page does not exist when account is blocked
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If I block an account on test.wikipedia.org that has no user page, the block does not show up in Special:Watchlist. The block will not appear on Special:Watchlist regardless of whether I later add the user's user page to my watchlist or if I select the "watch this user's page" checkbox during the block submission.

If I create the user page after the account has been blocked, the block _still_ does not appear at Special:Watchlist. This may be a separate bug.

If the user page already exists when I block the account, I can watch or unwatch the user page at my discretion and the relevant block entry will appear at Special:Watchlist depending on whether I'm watching the user's user page. (This is the correct behavior.)

Version: unspecified
Severity: minor

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:34 AM
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• MZMcBride created this task.Apr 2 2013, 4:27 AM
Umherirrender added a comment.Dec 6 2013, 9:18 PM

Cannot follow this:

Steps done for testing on current master:

  • Add the user page to watchlist
  • Go to Special:Block and block infinity
  • Go to watchlist and see the block, even if the user page does not exist

If you can still see this problem on testwiki, than it sounds like a problem with a extension, which can is active on test.wikipedia.org and manipulate the query.

Umherirrender unsubscribed.Feb 24 2015, 7:37 PM
IvanFon subscribed.Dec 19 2016, 2:47 AM

Able to reproduce on Mediawiki 1.29.0.

  1. Block a user with no user page
  2. Go to watchlist, can't see block
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I can no longer reproduce this:

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The user page of Dfpodsfpdsfpodspfdsjfjdsoi does not exist and has never existed.

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