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===How can I track changes to the articles I like or have edited?===
*[[User:ItsZippy|ItsZippy's reply]]
One of the benefits of registering an account is being able to watch pages. Every page has a picture of a star along the top, if you click this, a the page will be added to your watchlist. This means that, whenever someone edits the page, you will be notified via your watchlist. The talk page of a page you watch will also be added to your watchlist. To see your watchlist, click the link at the very top of the page, which says 'Watchlist'. Your watchlist will sort the changes by date, with the most recent at the top. You will see the name of the page, the time of the change, a number in brackets, a username and a summary. The nuumber in brackets refers to how many bytes a user has added or removed (it is green if they have made the page longer and red if they have made it shorter). The edit summary your see is the summary that the editor gives the edit (and is also visible on the page's history. On the left of each entry, you will see (diff|hist). Clicking diff will take you to the diff page - that is a page which shows you the page as is was after the edit and highlights and changes made to the previous page. The hist button takes you to the page history, a list of all chnages ever made to the page. [[Help:Watching pages]] has a fuller explanation and looks at some more complex scenarios. [[User:ItsZippy|ItsZippy]] <sup>([[User Talk:ItsZippy|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/ItsZippy|contributions]])</sup> 15:23, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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