Brion-
I object strenuously. I want to keep an eye on most articles I've touched, and the present option serves me very well.
OK, how about this:
---------------------------------------------- | Watchlist options | | | | Watch articles by default: | | ( ) No articles | | ( ) Newly created articles | | (*) New and modified articles | | | | .. in the following namespaces: | | [x] Articles, meta, images, user pages | | [x] Discussion pages | | | | Watchlist entries will expire after | | [0 ] days in the article namespaces | | [7 ] days in the discussion namespaces | ----------------------------------------------
This way, every aspect of watchlist behavior could be modified. Entries which have expired would be expunged when the watchlist is loaded. This would allow the watchlist to be effectively used to monitor conversations you take part in, without requiring you to remove these from your watchlist manually. Articles on your watchlist would have their expiry date pushed forwad when they are edited.
Thoughts? I know: feature bloat. But especially for our jumbled conversation system this could be very useful.
Regards,
Erik