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99: 288: 197:, and adhered to all other relevant norms. Or, the article might be an article (or several related articles) that already exists, on a topic that is close to Bob's heart about which they care quite a lot, and they have noticed that they feel it is missing some key information, so they go and find the best available sources, and add it themselves. Pleased with their work, Bob provides an appropriate 271:. Bob reverts Alice's changes in turn, starts a talk page discussion about the perceived content issues, or attempts to explain their rationale in their edit summaries, citing various policies, guidelines, and essays which they feel justify their preferred changes. Alice re-reverts Bob, and seeks to explain what is wrong, but at this point Bob is already so heated that they are incapable of 24: 80: 316:
Besides this, while it may indeed be helpful to watch a page for updates, discussion replies, vandalism, or questionably sourced edits, as already mentioned, you may decide that the page is already seeing enough attention to it, and you don't have much of value to contribute, so it's best to move on.
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If you disagree with further edits to a page and feel it's not worth the trouble to challenge those edits, then you may want to unwatchlist the page instead. Or, you may want to unwatchlist the page pre-emptively if you anticipate your contribution being controversial. Or even if you don't anticipate
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return to it later after you've calmed down, and then respond to or refine the changes sensibly with a clear mind. Or, if you do not think you'll be able to collect yourself and contribute constructively, you can leave the page alone indefinitely, and let more experienced editors take or leave what
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The aforementioned essay states several examples of articles that are recommends and not recommended to watch. The first on the list is pages that you created or made significant contributions to. This may be a good idea, if you're the ideal
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However, you may want to think carefully before using this feature indiscriminately. While it is an undoubtedly useful and often essential tool with which to maintain Knowledge, it is also the single aspect of Knowledge that comes closest to
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It's also worth noting that this may happen even if Bob never edited the page, or may have only made minute contributions, but simply cares a lot about the subject and might have a strong emotional attachment to the information on it.
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template or other such notice, removes the unreliable sources and information depending on them, and/or rewrites or reworks the article as needed to comply with Knowledge's content policies as Alice understands
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However, there is one point of potential disagreement to be had with it: the recommendation of watching articles that you created, edited, or have an interest in. This may not actually be advisable.
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over their contributions and won't be bothered whatsoever if their contributions are reverted. However, if this does not describe you, then the following scenario may play out:
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In short, if you are the sort of person who gets stressed out by major changes to pages you edited or care about for other reasons, or feels compelled to check
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it being controversial, but just don't want to be bothered thinking about it. Once you've put the page at a suitable distance, you can
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It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Knowledge contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of
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lets you track pages that you have an interest in, providing you with a feed of new changes made to the page (and its associated
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account knows, it can be very stressful to read a constantly updating feed of everything, which may make all these things look
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This is all just preference, and you might not want to abide by this advice, if this doesn't sound like it would improve your
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All this could be avoided, if at any point in this story, Bob simply removed the disputed article(s) from their watchlist and
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Articles that are the subject of a content dispute, where you are not able to constructively contribute to dispute resolution
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In general, that essay's arguments and suggestions are rather sound, and it is generally useful advice for many new editors.
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Bob, a new or intermediately experienced editor, has just written a new article. Bob believes that they understand the
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that was collaboratively improved by the community and left to sit peacefully after its creator unwatchlisted it.
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watch articles that you have an attachment to, if you anticipate yourself being bothered by changes made to them.
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This principle is already deftly summarized in another essay on the subject of the healthy use of watchlisting,
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It may be best to simply set your edits adrift and not pay attention to wherever they end up, or who finds them.
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However, if you do ever come to regret your watchlisting decisions, you can of course flush your watchlist in
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which allows you to "watch" pages, so long as you have an account. Through this functionality,
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Meanwhile, Alice, an experienced contributor, finds Bob's edits. Alice might be patrolling
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Articles that get edited a lot and already have plenty of active editors watching them
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of Knowledge, that they have done their due research and ensured the topic is
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to article space if necessary, clicks "Publish", and gets on with their day.
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When Bob edited or created the page, it was automatically added to their
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new edit to the existing article. While she recognizes that Bob acted in
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may brew, an argument may occur, or the incident may escalate to a
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explaining their rationale for their changes, moves it from
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Articles you have a strong attachment to for other reasons
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