From 514455483319cc77441637e47de4cab333618f7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: River Tarnell <kateturner@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 23:42:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] only set newtalk for actual users

---
 includes/Article.php | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/includes/Article.php b/includes/Article.php
index 9af2d9a4bf..57a1fe0bde 100644
--- a/includes/Article.php
+++ b/includes/Article.php
@@ -1997,8 +1997,10 @@ class Article {
 					  $minoredit, $timestamp_of_pagechange);
 				} else {
 					$other = User::newFromName($shortTitle);
-					$other->setNewtalk(1);
-					$other->saveNewtalk();
+					if ($other) {
+						$other->setNewtalk(1);
+						$other->saveNewtalk();
+					}
 				}
 			}
 
-- 
2.20.1