<DIV>Although I, personally rarely use my Watchlist (I tend to use it only to go back to pages whose names I forget all the time), there are many people who have made mention here on the mailing list, that they found it virtually impossible to work with Wikipedia without their Watchlists. Perhaps they can shed some light on the why?</DIV>
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<DIV>RickK<BR><BR><B><I>Sunir Shah <sunir@sunir.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">In response to my suggestion,<BR>>>A cheaper solution would have been to wait a while,<BR>>>say a day or two, and then delete the problematic<BR>>>text after the user had forgotten about the page.<BR><BR>Rick writes,<BR>> <SARCASM>Sure. People don't EVER use their Watchlists to make <BR>> sure the garbage they put on a page didn't get deleted. </SARCASM><BR><BR>In this case, that wasn't happening. Reality is always the<BR>winner.<BR><BR>One might also first ask why a person feels compelled to <BR>babysit their own text on a collaborative work.<BR><BR>SS<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WikiEN-l mailing list<BR>WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org<BR>http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l</BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
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