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A training tool within the framework of Wikipedia:Education creates discussions on Talk pages on behalf of student editors, and publishes a comment on the TP with a sig that is not the userid of the editor running the tool. There is a question as to whether this is compliant with the guideline, in particular, the policy section at § Signature forgery. Your feedback would be appreciated at this discussion. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 23:00, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) § RfC: applying signature validation retroactively.
Frostly (
talk) 04:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)—
Frostly (
talk) 04:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
...is at User:HouseBlaster/sandbox. Comments welcome. House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 22:16, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
@ Jonesey95: it shouldn't need to be resent, because in a month all of those editors with invalid signatures will no longer have invalid signatures. House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:50, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
I fixed my signature months ago. --ZacBowling ( user| talk) 04:50, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
At present there are two policies on this page addressing the same thing:
There was a RfC in 2021 which closed with the consensus against signatures being required to correspond exactly to usernames and no consensus to require that signatures be easily recognizable to a new user as referring to the username they link to.
The two conclusions from the RFC were:
It seems only the second guideline (above) adheres to this consensus, so the obvious solution is to remove the first one. However when I tried to do this it was undone by another editor. So I'm bringing the discussion here. Thanks. WikiMane (TP2001) ( talk) 14:29, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
I would add that the existing advice on the subject could be worded more strongly regardless of it not being a hard requirement. I don't think we need both of the bullets, but it would be reasonable for someone to support stronger language in the merged version. Anomie ⚔ 11:24, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
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A training tool within the framework of Wikipedia:Education creates discussions on Talk pages on behalf of student editors, and publishes a comment on the TP with a sig that is not the userid of the editor running the tool. There is a question as to whether this is compliant with the guideline, in particular, the policy section at § Signature forgery. Your feedback would be appreciated at this discussion. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 23:00, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) § RfC: applying signature validation retroactively.
Frostly (
talk) 04:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)—
Frostly (
talk) 04:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
...is at User:HouseBlaster/sandbox. Comments welcome. House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 22:16, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
@ Jonesey95: it shouldn't need to be resent, because in a month all of those editors with invalid signatures will no longer have invalid signatures. House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:50, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
I fixed my signature months ago. --ZacBowling ( user| talk) 04:50, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
At present there are two policies on this page addressing the same thing:
There was a RfC in 2021 which closed with the consensus against signatures being required to correspond exactly to usernames and no consensus to require that signatures be easily recognizable to a new user as referring to the username they link to.
The two conclusions from the RFC were:
It seems only the second guideline (above) adheres to this consensus, so the obvious solution is to remove the first one. However when I tried to do this it was undone by another editor. So I'm bringing the discussion here. Thanks. WikiMane (TP2001) ( talk) 14:29, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
I would add that the existing advice on the subject could be worded more strongly regardless of it not being a hard requirement. I don't think we need both of the bullets, but it would be reasonable for someone to support stronger language in the merged version. Anomie ⚔ 11:24, 16 April 2024 (UTC)