One admittedly clumsy way to handle this is to make a
separate user
subpage with links to the articles you want to track, preferably using
the [[:article]] code with the colon so the backlink is not made, and
to check it regularly for links newly going red.
On 10/1/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't. It really isn't a bug, a watchlist is supposed to show edits
> made to pages, not log entries. However, I can see why you wish this
> feature would be added to the watchlist, but it's not a bug. :-)
>
> On 10/1/07, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/1/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > why would it be a bad idea? Because people would delete too much? Or
> > > that they would not use the simper process of PROD as a first resort?
> > > I;m much more concerned of their using Speedy as a all-purpose resort.
> > >
> > > On 10/1/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 10/1/07, SPUI <drspui(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Commons manages to have a "nominate for deletion" link
in the
> > sidebar,
> > > > > even when logged out. Is this all done locally?
> > > >
> > > > That goes to nfd_nomForDel() which is defined at
> > > >
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Quick-delete.js and
> > > > included in common.js on Commons.
> > > >
> > > > We could *easily* make something exactly like this (to "AFD
this
> > > > article") available to everybody on en.wikipedia but I really
think it
> > > > would be a bad idea.
> >
> > Out of curiosity... (my test MW wiki is off right now or I'd try this...)
> >
> > If someone deletes an article on your watchlist, the deletion event
> > does not show up on the watchlist, correct?
> >
> > I'm inclined to think that this is a bug...
Yes, I can see several ways around it. That's the one that doesn't
take any programming on my part to implement, though I would probably
want to script up something to scrape my watchlist and auto-create the
separate pages [[:page]] list.
I think I'll call putting the deletes in the main watchlist a feature
request for the main code, though...
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com