Last modified: 2005-06-24 19:33:17 UTC
The new "Raw signatures" feature unfortunately allows users to use templates. One user on English Wikipedia in particular uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Vip as his signature, and now we're facing a problem cleaning that up (we're discussion merging or deleting that template). I'd prefer if "Raw signatures" was removed again, but at the very least it should not interpret template inclusions.
After looking into this more, it seems that using a transcluded signature (usually pointing to {{User:Username/sig}}) has become increasingly "fasionable" on Wikipedia. The problem is that the links table is getting flooded, server caches for all those talk pages are purged when the signature is changed, and signatures like this become vandalism targets. Please address ASAP.
Signature can't do anything that people can't type themselves.
That may be true right now, but that was not true prior to when the "raw signature" setting was made available.
That is a 100% false statement. The signature has never ever under any circumstances been able to produce output that cannot be produced by typing or cut and paste, and it never will be able to do so.
