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Person icons
[edit]My watchlist has, overnight, started putting little person icons next to user names. It's annoying and distracting. How can I remove it? GiantSnowman 21:11, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
- This is part of the design for Wikipedia:Temporary accounts. The described icon can be seen in the lede and in the video about infocards, File:Temporary Accounts demo - User Info Card.webm, in the section § Videos. —andrybak (talk) 16:19, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Opening an older diff link makes newer entries from different days disappear from the Watchlist
[edit]If you in this example Watchlist:
15 March 2026
- 11:02 Same article (diff | hist). . (+28) . . User:Example (talk | contribs) (Add yet another category))
14 March 2026
- 00:02 Same article (diff | hist). . (+25) . . User:Example (talk | contribs) (Add another category))
13 March 2026
- 23:59 Same article (diff | hist). . (+43) . . User:Example (talk | contribs) (Add category)
- Only opened the 13 March 2026 23:59 diff link in a new tab.
- Did nothing else but opened and closed that tab (in other words without navigating to the newer versions/diffs of Same article).
- Returned to the Watchlist tab and refreshed the page.
- All entries from all days to Same article disappear from the Watchlist even though you never really navigated through them all.
Has the Watchlist always behaved like this? I could've sworn it didn't do that before. It used to leave the other newer entries on the Watchlist, I think. Kliituu (talk) 10:07, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
Resolved. I forgot to update that this bug was fixed within a week after this comment, so this can be archived now. I'm not sure what caused it, though. Kliituu (talk) 10:11, 21 May 2026 (UTC)
Organize watchlist
[edit]How do I opt out of this new dialog box?
It is supremely unwieldy. I don't need it. I don't want it.
The previous functionality was minimal, required a minimum of mouse clicks, and wasn't obnoxiously in your face. It was elegant, did it's job with zero fuss.
I am not a beginner. Let me out of newbie mode!
CapnZapp (talk) 08:52, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
- @CapnZapp Please consolidate at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Watchlist button. CMD (talk) 09:02, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
mention about 'saved items' button as alternative
[edit]special:readinglists doesn't notify on edits, but it can be used to save pages for later. Arlo James Barnes 19:35, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Watchlist a category
[edit]The article says "Related Changes can also be used to monitor changes to pages belonging to a category," but it does not explain how to do that.
Ideally I'd like to have a way to find all changes that ORES rated Very Likely Have Problems to articles in Wikiproject Physics. Checking such a list occasionally could avoid sleeper problems with unwatched articles. Johnjbarton (talk) 02:27, 19 May 2026 (UTC)