People watch articles for a variety of reasons:

• General interest in the article, to be alerted of changes.
• A desire to revisit an article later.
• Noting that an article contains an error, but no time to fix it now.
• Noting that an article is unfinished, and needs to be checked later for completeness.
• etc.

Please add a watchlist feature that tags a watchlist entry with a REASON why you are watching the article. Then modify Special:Watchlist to group and/or sort pages by their reasons.

Reasons could be specified by administrators in a system message, just like MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown. The default reason would be null.

Reasons would be optional.

As an administrator, I would find this feature extremely valuable when patrolling articles. Sometimes I don't want to mark a revision as patrolled yet, but I want to come back to this article later. If I just "watch" it, I can't distinguish later between my "general interest" articles and my "come back later" articles in my watchlist.

Version: 1.15.x
Severity: enhancement