mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)
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Obviously normally it makes sense to watch both the source and destination of a
page move. It also makes sense to keep watching a page which has been deleted
if you specifically asked to watch. I don't know if this kind of information is
readily available in the MW database, but I'd think the logical thing to do is
if a page watched as the result of a page move is deleted, then it gets
unwatched. Or possibly this is something that can be integrated into the
function of rollback/revert buttons.

Perhaps I'm dense, but what is the obvious reason for watching the redirect page after someone moves a page?

Changing component to "Watchlist"

wikimedia wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

Perhaps I'm dense, but what is the obvious reason for watching the redirect
page after someone moves a page?

Mmm, good point. I could think of a couple of scenarios where it would be useful but actually would then be doing decision-making on your behalf on a level which is only useful in a few select cases. Unwatching shadow redirects seems sensible.

See also Bug 3185 "Page move rollback should not leave a redirect", if this were in place then there would be redirect from the vandalised title for you to be watching.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=455038876&oldid=455033536

: I just checked the list of pages on my watchlist and I spotted ''Hurricane Shit (2011)'' and ''Hurricane Shithead'', even though I never watchlisted or visited them.

Only person who has touched this in the past 3 years is me. Lowering priority.

This area of watchlist is more in the Platform Engineering's domain so I'm marking as external to Growth-Team.