Most of the time, monitoring pages are part of my editing on Wikipedia. The following breaks down on what my philosophy is on Wikipedia, in terms of monitoring pages:
Editing Pages
Here on my page, watching pages are a commitment to learning most of the Wikipedia policies that I do abide by. Most users may be unfamiliar at first, but users do get the idea of where it comes from. For example, vandalism reverting applies via WP:VANDAL, whereas edit warring applies via WP:EW. Every article that I edit uses proper formatting, as I like to treat them like if it was a real encyclopedia.
Talk Pages
For talk pages, most users have different requirements. On my talk page, for example, I also like to encourage users to treat every talk page as if it was writing a letter, since I am given that Wikipedia is not a social networking site unlike Facebook or Twitter. This is one of the reasons why proper formatting is enforced on my talk page.
Note that this is a user's view of what Wikipedia is meant to be, and not a social networking site, blog, or anything else.