At 04:31 AM 8/9/03 -0700, you wrote:
Erik writes:
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.
I'm probably going to keep watching [[Zoo]] indefinitely, to see what else of interest is added and make copyediting passes after people add information. I'm sure I'm not the only person who uses the watchlist this way.