Thread:Support/About MediaWiki:Watchlist-details

The wording is unfortunate because people may press the "watch" button at a user talk page and wonder why this number is incremented despite it was just a talk page. The concept that only pages are watched and talk pages always have the same status is not properly communicated. I propose the following wording:

$1 pages on your watchlist. A page and its talk page is only counted once. or $1 pages on your watchlist, not separately counting talk pages. or $1 pages on your watchlist. When watching a page, its talk page is automatically watched and vice versa but only one of them is counted. or $1 pages on your watchlist. Talk pages always have the same watch status as the pages they belong to and are not separately counted.