Editing Help:Watchlist (section)

== Alternatives to watchlists ==

{{Main|Help:Public watchlist}}
By default, an account can have only one watchlist. However, it is possible to set up watchlist-like functionality using the "[[Help:Related changes|Related changes]]" feature, in a way that effectively enables a user to achieve multiple watchlists. These are visible to anyone. To do this, create a page (normally in your own [[WP:User space|user space]]) containing links to the pages you wish to watch. Changes to those pages can then be monitored by going to the user page and clicking "Related changes". Note that in this case the talk pages corresponding to "watched" pages are ''not'' automatically included, and that changes to the user page itself will not be picked up.

Related Changes can also be used to monitor changes to pages belonging to a [[WP:Category|category]], including the addition of pages to the category. However, the removal of pages from the category is ''not'' detected.

Custom tools are available to change the behavior of the watchlist, including [[User:MusikAnimal/customWatchlists]], which allows watchlist entries to be categorized.

The template {{tl|delmon}} may be used to generate a watchlist-like page that indicates the status of pages with respect to the various [[Wikipedia:Deletion process|deletion processes]].