Is there a way to see how many profiles are in our watchlist?

Question

How can I know how many people are in my watchlist? - without counting them by hand?

Answer 1

Hi April,

If you go to the My WikiTree menu in the upper right hand corner and then click on Watchlist it tells you at the top of the page how many you have.  Look for something like this:

Viewing 500 of 4892 profiles on Watchlist

Comments

Thank you Eowyn, but I am not seeing anything like that at the top of my Watchlist page - this is all it says above the list:

This is your Watchlist. [more info]   Also see your Free-Space Watchlist. Click here to search for potential duplicates .

How am I missing the numbers part?

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OH! I know why. If you have less than 500 it won't have the number at the top.

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Eowyn! You're the best. thank you - and I only have 175 on my watchlist. it sure looks like a lot more some days:)

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Haha, some days that long list of names seems to go on forever!

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I have 10,563

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I began importing my tree into WikiTree yesterday. But even when I've completed the imports, I will have a watchlist only half as long as yours, which is a good things, as I am only half as brave:)

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It isn't courage. I am too stupid to know how to reduce it

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Is that because you take after your Arbuthnot ancestors?

[obviously tongue-in-cheek, since Sir William's ancestral line is famously brilliant]

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William, this help page describes all the ways of removing yourself from trusted list of one or many profiles: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/List_removals

To just remove yourself as the profiles manager of a bunch of profiles, while remaining on the trusted list, you could use http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:ManagerChanges

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Tried that. Nothing happens when I press continue.

perhaps the database is having a problem with me.

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Did you select an action? For the bulk trusted list changes, you have to select either Add or Remove from the drop down box (in this case Remove). It's similar for the bulk profile manager changes.

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Oh,  it has now advised me that it didn't recognise my email address. Problem solved. Thank you.

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Update: The Watchlist will now display the count even if you don't have 500.