Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 7 (section)

==Watchlist Use==

Firstly, apologies if this should have been directed at a more specific/technical help area.

I have accumulated a number of pages on my watchlist, and I note that some of them get vandalised by anonymous IP's. However, my first knowledge of the vandalism on my watchlist appears as a registered user's reversion of it. It seems that some anonymous IP edits *will* appear on my watchlist and others won't . . . how is that possible? [[User:Lacrimosus|Lacrimosus]] 08:25, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

: Your watchlist only shows the ''last'' change done to a watched article.  If an article is edited in quick succession by a dozen different people, you'll still only see one entry (the last one) on your watchlist.  So you often have to hit the "hist" link beside a watchlist item in order to see the full story of what's been happening to that article. -- [[User:Finlay McWalter|Finlay McWalter]] | [[User talk:Finlay McWalter | Talk]] 10:02, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)