Help talk:Watchlist

Modifying limitations
Hi - in Help:Watchlist, it suggests you can't watch categories. Yet isn't this what [] does, if you put in a category name? TimTempleton (talk) (cont)  23:04, 13 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Quote from Help:Watchlist, additional emphasis mine:
 * Watchlists can be configured to monitor immediate categorization relationships, changes to "children" of the category. But watchlists don't show changes of more distant categorization relationships, i.e. "grandchildren". —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:39, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Watchlists can be configured to monitor immediate categorization relationships, changes to "children" of the category. But watchlists don't show changes of more distant categorization relationships, i.e. "grandchildren". —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:39, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Any edit that changes a number or numbers without an edit summary should be flagged "r"
This is an extremely common form of vandalism. There is never a reason to change numbers without leaving an edit summary. —DIYeditor (talk) 18:30, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

I've started a discussion at WP:Village pump (technical). —DIYeditor (talk) 19:22, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * For the record, the discussion is archived at Village pump (technical)/Archive 205. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:14, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Watching versus subscribing?
Could someone please add an explanation of the difference between watching an article or subscribing to an article? I see the words as synonyms. David Spector (talk) 20:17, 29 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I am still seing "subscribe" links on sections, but no explanation of how subscribing is different from watching. "Subscribe" seems to be undocumented and mysterious. If it is similar to Watching, why isn't it described in this Help article? David Spector (talk) 01:19, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
 * "Subscribe" links on sections is a relatively new feature, from 2021–2022. See WP:SUBSCRIBE for details. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:42, 8 March 2024 (UTC)