The message displayed when watching/unwatching pages is too verbose. It could be as simple as this:
"XYZ" and its discussion page have been added to your watchlist.
mirrored with
"XYZ" and its discussion page have been removed from your watchlist.
Previous description:
Author: MediaWiki
See URL for an example, but this is true for any talk page.
The message displayed when watching a page is:
"The page "Page title" has been added to your watchlist, which will list edits to this page and its associated talk page. The page will also be bolded in the list of recent changes."
This is OK for a content page (first tab), but if the page is a talk page, the talk page and its associated talk page will apparently be added to the user's watchlist. Talk pages don't have talk pages. The watcher should distinguish the namespace of the watched page and return one of two different messages: one for content pages, and one for talk pages.
This could be implemented by changing the current addedwatchtext message to accept a second parameter, the type of the associated page, so instead of enwiki's:
The page "'''$1'''" has been added to your [[{{ns:Special}}:Watchlist|watchlist]], which will list edits to this page and its associated {{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{TALKSPACE}}|content|talk}} page. The page will also be '''bolded''' in the [[{{ns:Special}}:Recentchanges|list of recent changes]].
It would read:
"'''$1'''" and its {{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{TALKSPACE}}|content|discussion page}} have been added to your [[{{ns:Special}}:Watchlist|watchlist]].mirrored with
"'''$1'''" and its {{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{TALKSPACE}}|content|discussion page}} page have been removed from your [[{{ns:Special}}:Watchlist|watchlist]].The page "'''$1'''" has been added to your [[{{ns:Special}}:Watchlist|watchlist]], which will list edits to this page and its associated $2 page. The page will also be '''bolded''' in the [[{{ns:Special}}:Recentchanges|list of recent changes]].
Not sure how much sense I made, but I'll be checking back regularly, so ask a question if you don't understand.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://usability.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opinion_Watch&oldid=4494#Watch_icon_.26_feedback_message
See Also: T62595: Tooltip text for watchlist button assumes knowledge of the concept of watchlist T42307: mw.notification Usability Improvements