**Author:** `sundarbecse`
**Description:**
I would love to be able to watch sections of a page instead of whole articles, particularly for pages
like [[Reference Desk]]. Otherwise, pertinent changes to sections that interest me get superceded by
subsequent changes to other sections.
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**This issue is also part of the [Top 20 wishes of the German community](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Top_20).**
As a Wikipedia editor I want to be able to add selected page sections to my watchlist so that I don’t need to watch the whole article.
See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Top_20#M.C3.B6glichkeit.2C_eine_Kategorie_auf_neue_Artikel_hin_zu_beobachten (in German).
Further details: Helpful for e.g. notability or deletion discussions. Also helpful in case a whole section gets removed or in case of long articles where it's difficult to recognize fast which section was edited.
Needs to be discussed with: WMF/Flow (might be done via Flow)
This card tracks a proposal from the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey
This proposal received 45 support votes, and was ranked #18 out of 107 proposals. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Watchlists#Section_watchlists
Also proposed in #community-wishlist-survey-2016. Received 35 support votes, and ranked #43 out of 265 proposals. [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Watchlists#CW2016-R043 | View full proposals with discussion and votes here ]].