Would it be difficult to have two options at the bottom of the page: "Watch this article forever", and "Watch this article for two weeks"?
Catherine
Expiring watchlist entries after a certain default period (unless you make an edit in that period) may also help (but also has some screwup potential).
It does, yes. Some of the articles I watch are infrequently edited, but if someone comes along and vandalizes them or inserts blatant POV, I want to be sure to see it. As far as the vandalism goes, it may come as a shock to some, but not every vandalism is caught--I recently found a country page that had been vandalized nearly two months earlier.
kq