I was just looking at [[test:]] (because of that new disambiguation thing), and I wasn't logged in, so I logged in, and there was no such user. I thought that I'd created one there ... but apparently not, so I went ahead and created a new [[User:Toby Bartels]] there. But then I looked on my watchlist, and there was stuff there! (Stuff that should have been there, since I'd added it before.)
This may just be a known side effect of some previous change to [[test:]], perhaps even announced once ("Everybody must recreate their account.") and forgotten. But if the developers don't understand how this happened, then perhaps somebody should look into it.
Summary: My account existed, complete with watchlist, but I couldn't log on until I created it anew.
-- Toby
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