On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 20:01:49 UTC, Sascha Noyes <sascha(a)pantropy.net> wrote: Quite true -- but in addition, how about good reasons that involve no actual wrong-doing on anyone's part? People do sometimes insert stuff that one doesn't consider up to par sometimes with the best of intentions. If other people never created sub-standard stuff, why would you ever make revisions on an existing piece? (Stubs and your own creations would be the only things you'd work on.) When I've put effort into a piece, I know more about it than I do about a Random Article, and probably more than does a random WIkipedia editor; and it's not _just_ ego that inspires me to keep track of whether improvements to it are actually improvements.

RickK writes: For me, personally: 1. Stuff on my watchlist (since I have my preferences set to put on the watchlist everything I edit) is the stuff I know about, and thus the stuff I'm knowledgable enough to detect vandalism on. 2. My watchlist tracks the articles I'm working on and in most cases those that need some work. If there's collaboration, one needs to keep track of the work of one's collaborators. 3. Talk pages only really work with watchlists, otherwise you never know when an issue has been raised or answered. 4. I'd rather the pages I've put effort into continue to improve. I don't get the idea that I should just cast my words out into the wild and never check back on them. I'm not invested in my personal text; I do care that my work not be 'undone' in the sense of the article becoming a worse, rather than better, treatment of the topic. I'd love my text replaced anywhere -- IF the replacement is better. Probably a few more reasons too, and I'm sure others have their own reasons as well. -Matt (User:Morven)