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Add votes page to watchlist when supporting a wish or focus area
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Description

You can add a comment while supporting, and naturally people would want to reply to some of them. This can lead to splintered discussions between the /Votes page and the talk page. You can also miss a discussion on a wish despite watching the wish page because the /Votes page is separate and created later.

Acceptance Criteria

  • The support form should have a watch checkbox and an expiry dropdown, which probably should be checked if the user already watches the wish page.
  • The checkbox should be labeled as "Watch votes page"

Event Timeline

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald Transcript

The title and acceptance criteria only partially address the problems identified in the description (which was copied from my comment on wiki with no attribution). Perhaps you should stop allowing comments while supporting.

I think the solution is the so far best solution to it. Moreover, please do not stop allowing comments while supporting – if anything incentivize or facilitate them more: votes are much stronger and much more valuable, useful if they are explained. Instead, one could highlight or integrate the wish's talk page more.