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Jason Lalways a living document.
My only recommendation on sucha personal topic is to make it as realistic as possible. Otherwise you just create frustration and never will gain any sense of satisfaction from your purchased additions!
For instance, mine does not include many of the top tier HOFer cards you regularly see on the New Pickups threads of this very board, much less the truly rare items like the current headliners of the REA auction...but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want them!
Generally, I think wantlists are great for helping to focus a collector, and make decisions on relative priorities...My wantlist is long, filled with modest cards, but certainly has several chapters for the various subset interests I have...
not sure if this answers your question, but I would be interested to hear how others manage a wantlist...