Wikipedia talk:Signatures

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template usage

It states on the page that using a template for a signature is forbidden, with the main reason given as that it is subject to vandalism. If I have my signature template protected, so that no vandalism can occur on it, will it be permitted then? --fone4me 10:03, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Read the section carefully. There are more reasons given than the one you have chosen to supply, above.  DDStretch  (talk) 10:10, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

The second point doesn't apply, since archiving will still archive my sig. --fone4me 10:40, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Try the point where the system administrators said to worry about the performance drain. Anomie⚔ 01:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I think that it makes sense that the signature text field has a fixed character limit. It's there for a reason :) Gary King (talk) 07:08, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

You don't seem to understand the point about archiving. Most archiving bots parse the sig to decide whether to archive the page. They don't recognise templates as signature so it will indeed be a problem. In what circumstances did you think the template thing is a problem? And what makes you think your use of templates is special Nil Einne (talk) 11:58, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Purpose?

I'm afraid I don't see the point. When I was too ignorant to sign my post, the following text was appended: "—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jqavins (talk • contribs) 01:50, 15 July 2008 (UTC)".

When I edited my post, adding ~~~~ at the end, this was changed to "Joe Avins (talk) 23:23, 16 July 2008 (UTC)". So, it has my name instead of my username. If the statement that the comment was unsigned had not been present, there would be no difference of note at all! My username is as good as my name; who cares?

Okay, so it's considered good etiquette to sign each post. So I'll sign each post. But really, what's the point? Joe Avins (talk) 23:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

The "unsigned signature" thing is not an automatic feature, that was someone else comming along and adding the {{unsigned}} template at the end if your comment to help others figure out how said what. Granted there is at least one automated bot out there that is pretty good at catching and atributing unsigned comments on most talk pages, but it's not rely something you should be relying on, so just sign your own commetns. --Sherool (talk) 22:44, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Also the bots are run by contributors. They can go down at any time, may start to misbehave and have to be blocked, can make mistakes and can miss things. You should not be relying on user bots to do something you should be doing yourself. From a editor POV, you're liable to annoy others and more likely to be ignored if you always don't sign your posts. You may not think that's fair, but from ther alternative POV, why should other people waste their time with people who can't follow basic etiquette. Nil Einne (talk) 12:07, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks bot for signing this :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.138.35.146 (talk) 21:11, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Redirect

I made wp:unsigned redirect to the Dealing with unsigned comments section, if that's okay. --WikiWes77 (talk) 03:43, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Colour in signatures

This page says "if you must use color...". What about the advantage of using colour - that your signature is easier to pick out among others, so it is easier to follow who said what? Richard001 (talk) 08:40, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I guess it differentiates. Makes it a more "personal" signature. Not necessary. Vast majority of editors just leave their signature as the default. Enigma ^message 22:10, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Too much colour is more likely to be distraction... Nil Einne (talk) 11:59, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

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Replacing IP with signature

This was reported in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-08-25/In the news. Do we want to add it here?

Occasionally, an editor will be logged out without recognizing it and post to a discussion, thus their IP shows as their signature. After the editor realizes this, they may log in and replace the signature. This may not be a good thing, as WikiScanner now trawls the database looking for these replacements and logs them at Poor Man's Checkuser. --—— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk - 17:17, 9 September 2008 (UTC)