Thread:HoneyCandiez/@comment-961279-20160127151605

A vandal (Assholetourette) stopped by one of my wikis a few hours ago, so I came over here to see if there was anything I needed to clean up here. Someone already got it, but the "grounded" he repeatedly put in is something that he's done on the other wikis he's been to.

But what I noticed when I looked at the automated greeting for that account was it displayed my own name and when I checked it from a different browser without logging in, it just said "you". It looks like the issue is the   variable you have in the greeting message (MediaWiki:Welcome-message-wall-user). That seems to be the "display the name of the person looking at the page" variable instead of the username you're intending the message to directed to.

According to the help page under the Variables section, I think if you were to switch   to $4, it might do what you're intending.

Making the change will fix it for all new messages that are left for people, but to make it work on all previous messages, you'd have to have a bot account that's set as an admin account plus the AWB program to do the search and replace. That's probably more than you'd want to worry about right now. 