Last modified: 2014-03-17 15:01:12 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug 58196 comment 6 +++ (In reply to Bug 58196 comment #6) > (In reply to Bug 58196 comment #4) > > For example, if you go to Special:EmailUser, you can tell if a user has > > disabled email or not (disableemail). > > That's not actually correct; you can know whether someone has disabled their > email /or/ never confirmed one to begin with (i.e.: it's emailconfirmed && > !disableemail). At a recent event we discovered that the sender also must have email confirmed. (I was on one side of the room and sent a test from [[special:emailuser]] to the user sitting next to a new editor. new editor had no email user link on sidebar of other user's user page) The fact that the new editor was not emailconfirmed would have been discovered more easily if there was an email link in the user page sidebar. (the special page itself does already have an error message about emailconfirmed) Some docs/etc. may instruct people to click on the link in the sidebar and so users will be confused if it's not there. (did I go to the sidebar of the correct page??) See also Bug 56074
Implementing this feature request would directly revert bug 1306, I believe.
I'm not sure re-exposing the sidebar link makes sense. This needs further thought.
(In reply to jeremyb from comment #0) > Some docs/etc. may instruct people to click on the link in the sidebar and > so users will be confused if it's not there. That's bug 35142, not a valid reason to enable half-functioning features. (In reply to MZMcBride from comment #1) > Implementing this feature request would directly revert bug 1306, I believe. Indeed. Closing.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 35142 ***
