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The '''watchlist''' is the mechanism by which any editor can see what happens to an article. Anyone that knows Wikipedia well enough to be adding any sort of deletion tag should know how to use it. [[User:Phil Bridger|Phil Bridger]] ([[User talk:Phil Bridger|talk]]) 22:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

:To find out what happens to a page you tagged for speedy deletion, you first have to put every page you tag on your watchlist; this could get to be a large number of articles if you do it long enough. Then you have to remember which pages on your watchlist were the ones you tagged, and remember to check what happened if they are not deleted. And if you want to know whether or not a page was speedied for the criteria you tagged it for, you need to memorize the criteria you used for every page you tagged, and keep that in memory for the 15-20 minutes (or even longer at some times of day) it can take for a page to get deleted, so that you can go back and check to see if the criteria used by the deleting admin matches the criteria you tagged it for. It is not a surprise that people don't typically keep track of what happens to the page they tag.--[[User:Dycedarg|<span style="border:1px solid red;color:red; padding:1px;background:#000">'''Dycedarg'''</span>]] [[User talk:Dycedarg|'''<span style="color:#000000">&#x0436;</span>''']] 22:42, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

*I wouldn't object to this but would recommend opt-in only. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle/wizard|talk]]) 14:51, 10 May 2009 (UTC)