Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

Allow watching a page, but not its talk page.
Allow watching a talk page, but not its page.

In the meantime, the words on all views of the watchlist should
mention that the two are currently fused together and cannot be
independently watched, apparently.

Anyway, how Stalinist that they are stuck together with no way of
ungluing them.

Yes, the default should be watch both. But there should be a way to
snap the link for certian pages (without runing it for the rest.)