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User talk page warning to flag up likely THEYCANTHEARYOU problem

(I asked at VPT and was signposted here, so am just copypasting my original query:)

While waiting (!) for the mobile user notification problem (WP:THEYCANTHEARYOU) to be one day maybe (!!) fixed, would it be a) possible and b) good idea to implement in the meantime a warning which automatically appears on the top of the user talk page of a user who is likely to be not getting notifications (ie. edits only or or mostly on an affected mobile device, and does not edit their talk page)?

I realise this would do nothing to help such users receive the said notifications, but it would at least make it easier for the rest of us to identify this as a possible explanation for their lack of response to warnings etc., helping to AGF and not raise blood pressures unduly. I've seen many user talk pages where the attempts at communicating with the user get increasingly desperate, until someone points out this as the likely reason. I just thought maybe that could be done automatically by way of some clever code.

Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:58, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

PS: By "automatically" I meant some sort of user-side script which I could opt in and put in my common.js or somewhere. When I then visit a user talk page, the script checks the user's edit history and displays (to me) a warning, flagging up things like 'user has never edited their user talk page' or 'user edits using iOS devices only', or whatever the relevant criteria are. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:59, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

@DoubleGrazing: I have a script that might do part of what you are looking for: User:Rummskartoffel/talk page usage.js, which displays the time since a user's last edits in certain talk namespaces, along with links to those edits and links to their contributions for the namespaces in question. It doesn't do the other things you're looking for, though. Rummskartoffel 17:55, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Rummskartoffel, will keep that in mind. Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:08, 9 May 2022 (UTC)