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Hi - in Help:Watchlist#Limitations, it suggests you can't watch categories. Yet isn't this what [ [1]] does, if you put in a category name? TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 23:04, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Watching a category page will pick up changes to the text of the category page itself. If "Hide categorization of pages" is disabled at Special:Preferences § mw-prefsection-watchlist, or "page categorization" is unchecked after "Hide:" on the watchlist, then it will also show pages being added or removed from the category. However, it will not report changes to subcategories or member pages contained in the category.
This is an extremely common form of vandalism. There is never a reason to change numbers without leaving an edit summary. —DIYeditor ( talk) 18:30, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at WP:Village pump (technical)#Numerical changes without edit summary should be flagged "r" in watchlist. —DIYeditor ( talk) 19:22, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Could someone please add an explanation of the difference between watching an article or subscribing to an article? I see the words as synonyms. David Spector ( talk) 20:17, 29 July 2023 (UTC)