Also requested at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notifications/Archive_6#Page_link_being_limited_to_created_articles_only
and at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Echo_%28Notifications%29/Is_it_possible_to_use_Echo_to_be_personally_notified_about.../reply_%284%29
See my replies there for details, but tl;dr, I suspect this will end up as a part of either Flow's "workflows", and/or the inevitable watchlists-overhaul.

it'd already be an improvement if it were made possible to track "article-linked" relating to one's watchlist "as is". A separately definable list of articles to be echoed would be a huge bonus, of course.

New request from a spokesperson for other users.
Have a list that you can edit would help people to choose which pages they want to watch. It can be useful to remove pages you have created and you don't want to have notifications about anymore, or to add pages you want to watch.

Would it be possible to raise priority about that task?

(From T143809: Allow people to watch/unwatch pages for link notification purposes)

At the moment, people can receive a notification for links made to pages they have created only.

Have a way to edit that list would allow people to:

• remove some links (articles they have created to help someone, articles with a lot of trafic, etc.)
• add some links to watch if a page has some trafic, or to watch to which articles it has been added ([[John Doe (writer, 1963)]] instead of [[John Doe (writer, 1965)]]).

And possibly more cases.

The most raised example for that list was the raw watchlist [[Special:EditWatchlist/raw]]

Feedback from the FR Wikiconference 2016

This would be very useful in Wikidata as new items in Wikidata usually link to others in their space and this feature allows to get notified about new items that a given user cares about.

and also remove notifications that a user doesn't car about, e.g. I want to know about new links to Q24258909 (broken rail) but I don't care about new links to Q26484625 (lap (of a circuit). The latter are far more common, but I can only choose to get both or neither currently and have no options at all about new links to Q7283877 (Rail Accident Investigation Branch), which I'd like to see, as that item was created by a bot.

In T66090#3771590, @Thryduulf wrote:

and also remove notifications that a user doesn't care about [...]

That's the matching task, T46787: Allow excluding pages from the page links notifications. I've linked it more clearly in the task description now. :)

Another request for this feature at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk:Notifications&oldid=1061647819#Notifications_for_links_to_pages_you_didn't_create

T3492: Multiple watchlists is the task about having multiple watchlists. Creating a new sort-of-watchlist with very limited scope seems to me like a bad path to start down on.

I'm moving this to triaged as it's not something in the scope of the Growth team's short-to-medium term plans.

I have found https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70060 which talks about the same or at least very similar issue as here. Maybe you know already about it, but maybe not?