This may also help address T394940

Thanks for the detailed explanation of the background and options, @Urbanecm_WMF.

In T389561#10785843, @AAlhazwani-WMF wrote:

In T389561#10773424, @KStoller-WMF wrote:

Discussed in estimation. Engineers suggested we simplify the styling to just use an indent and italics.

sure thing! we could try to rely only on indent and italics. here's how it might feel in context:

Any of these mock-ups look fine to me; probably best to go for the first / simplest? And these do make it straightforward when replying to append a Ping for the original mentor when it seems relevant.

Some fat-finger keying combined with strange browser behaviour resulted in this part written item being raised.

I was about to suggest a target wording very like that in the possible solution here. The only difference is that I was going to suggest that the original mentor's username should be linked so that when they return they have a ping notification through which they can become familiar with the discussion which has occurred.

In T386906#10567611, @A_smart_kitten wrote:

I believe that this task may be looking for the same outcome/have the same underlying issue as T344029: Notification counter not shown on mobile (Minerva) when the user has no unseen alerts - are there any objections if it’s merged into that one?

In T198456#4380196, @Deskana wrote:

A good suggestion. That said, it's low priority, as it's not truly "quite common" if there's only 9 instances of PMID 1 on a wiki as large as the English Wikipedia.

In T313650#8135537, @Giraffer wrote:

One more scenario I run into frequently (outside of draftifications, which NL mentioned) is seeing the "Previously deleted" tag next to a page (often a BLP) which was CSD/PROD'd 10+ years ago, usually with a different subject, despite having the same name, so the previous deletion really has no bearing on the current iteration of the page.

Not always easy to discern the nature of the previous instance and determine its relevance to the present article. This is where a scratchpad of inconclusive review findings would be useful: I sometimes add the Old Prod / Prev Afd template to the new instance, and where appropriate add a note about it probably not being the same person. Maybe an additional template for placing structured investigative findings onto the new article's Talk page could be useful, and then could in time be consumed as structured information?