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.
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