Thread:Support/Adding a message which is identical to an existing one for most languages.

There are few messages which are used both as a page titles and link anchors, such as "email user" which appears in the tool bar of user pages as well as being the title of the page linked to from there, as well as the page title of a selection form, when Special:EmailUser is called without a valid user reference.

They cannot be apropriately translated to e.g. Cologian, since translations must be either e-mail this user or e-mail a user, depending on the context. There is no generic translation whitch fits either case. The "e-mail this user" variant should of course support GENDER.

I shall alter the code appropriately, and introduce another message so as to fix the problem. How to best deal with the additonal message which would be not needed, or identical to the existing one, in almost all languages? What is best? I am somewhat leaning towards solution number one, making the message not optional.
 * 1) Add a new mesage, make it optional or not, default to empty, have message documentation ask to only translate it if it deviates from the existing older one, and use   to automatically fetch the right one.
 * 2) Add a new message, duplicate all existing messages into it, document it and thus not bother translators. (That may momentarily loose instances where better, or GENDERized translations would be made, if translators were made aware)
 * 3) Add the new message, spare duplication, document it, and make almost all translators copy it from translation memory unchanged.