GuildWiki talk:Sign your comments

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Implementation
No dissent seems evident on either of the points below. If they remain uncontested on the 20th, I'll update the article to reflect this agreement. &mdash;Tanaric 11:20, 17 October 2006 (CDT)

Name Variation
I might also suggest that people don't allow people to display a name wildly different than their real username, like here. I've noticed people doing it for a while, but I don't know if any of them are regular contributors. --Fyren 20:16, 16 October 2006 (CDT)
 * I agree completely. Whatever name they display in their sigs should be very close if not identical to their username (maybe allow spaces or caps variations - but that's all I would want to allow to vary). --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 09:49, 17 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Also agreed. &mdash;Tanaric 11:20, 17 October 2006 (CDT)


 * How heavily policed would this be? Provided a user is not impersonating another I really don't see the problem. That isn't to say I'm against the proposal, just that I'm not really in favour of it.  &lt;LordBiro&gt;/&lt;Talk&gt; 16:54, 17 October 2006 (CDT)


 * This is mainly a problem of keeping track of other people. Someone starting out as UserABC but always (consistently) going as CBA in his sig would not bother me a lot, but someone changing the diplayed name every week would. --Xeeron 17:01, 17 October 2006 (CDT)

Length limitation
The proposal in the talk page made it clear that most participants desired a maximum length on signatures. Curiously enough, PanSola proposed a maximum length of 24 characters, and his signature is the reason I'm digging this back up. As one contributor said, "until a signature incident occurs, we shouldn't restrict signature length." Well, we're at that point now.

I'm in favor of this wording:

"Signatures that are excessively longer than typical signatures on the GuildWiki are discouraged, and may result in administrative intervention."

I like keeping the policy articles as general as circumstances allow, as is probably well known. I think PanSola's signature falls well beyond typical, which would justify me bouncing in and reducing it for him. :)

&mdash;Tanaric 09:51, 14 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Technically, the earlier conversation doesn't apply to PanSola's sig. While I agree that this discussion should be brought up again for the reasons you mentioned, I believe that his sig would be a new topic, not a carry-over of the earlier discussion.
 * The earlier talk applied to how many characters the sig took on the edit page, not how many characters the sig displayed on the talk page itself. The earlier concern was that a long string of code in the sig broke up the flow in the edit screen.  PanSola has bypassed that issue by doing his sig as an inclusion, so that while it's very long in the talk page, it's one of the shortest sigs in the edit screen. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 10:02, 14 October 2006 (CDT)
 * I would like the following rules: 1) The sig should be substed if a custom /sig page is used. 2) The sig code should be limited to a reasonable length. --[[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png]] (talk) 10:31, 14 October 2006 (CDT)
 * I'm for a reasonable length for both code and actual sig as it shows in the conversation. --Rainith 18:52, 14 October 2006 (CDT)
 * I agree with Gem; template-inclusion should not be used for sigs, ever. I'm now in favor of the following wording: "Signatures that are excessively longer than typical signatures, whether in the wikitext of the page or in the rendered text, are discouraged, and may result in administrative intervention. Sigs should always be part of the wikitext of a page; including a signature via a template is discouraged, as it results in all previous signatures changing upon alteration." &mdash;Tanaric 01:39, 15 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Sounds reasonable. --Xeeron 05:50, 15 October 2006 (CDT)
 * I like it and I agree completely with not permitting inclusions, but as an administrator I'm unsure how to interpret some of the proposed wording - I usually prefer firmer/clearer guidelines. I'm reading "typical signature" to mean the standard system generated signature; but what might be "excessively longer" to one person may not be to another.  Twice as long?  Three times?  Five times?  Ten times?  Also when comparing, the date is uaually in the sig, but do we count it as part of the length when determining excessive length conpared to standard?  --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 11:23, 16 October 2006 (CDT)


 * This probably isn't the answer you want, but, you were appointed to an administrator position because your interpretation, whatever it is, is trusted. If I look at something and go, "Man, that sig is obnoxiously long," I would warn the editor, under this guideline. I'm really not interesting in counting characters in sigs; are you? From the other direction, if you don't care about sig length, you're not obligated to ever enforce this. :) &mdash;Tanaric 11:16, 17 October 2006 (CDT)