Last modified: 2014-11-04 22:49:03 UTC
I would like request that images in signatures be disabled on enwiki. I believe this reflects consensus at the provided URL. We would like this implemented technically instead of as a guideline or policy because it avoids headaches; it has long been a guideline not to use images in signatures, yet people still use them and are sometimes quite stubborn when asked to remove them. If this is not a $wg variable, perhaps it should be... I can put in the appropriate feature request if necessary. Thanks!
I would strongly support this. There is quite a strong consensus against using images in sigs, and I think the best way to restrict this is to disable it technically rather than this obnoxious "bullying" of other editors to change their sigs. If anything, it's just a waste of server space and time to have a ten page dispute about every individual user's signature. I'd also like to recommend that a restriction of signature length be implemented, although I don't believe there to be strong consensus for this on enwp.
Anyone wishing to furthur discuss the signature issue, please do so at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Sign_your_posts_on_talk_pages#Imposing_signature_restrictions. Try to keep discussion here about actually implementation the image restriction.
The poll seems to have closed and it looks like there is decent support for some changes.
Template calls should be disabled as well. The current method which adds subst to template calls removes just the first level of template calls and leaves stuff like: :: <em>[[User:Colin Keigher|Colin Keigher]]</em> ([[User talk:Colin Keigher|Talk]]) {{#if: Canada | {{country_flagicon|Canada|Canada|size={{{size|}}}}} }} 06:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC) on pages (this was a user that used {{flagicon|Canada}} in his sig). See also [[bugzilla:2777]]
(In reply to comment #4) > Template calls should be disabled as well. The current method which adds subst > to template calls removes just the first level of template calls This is another bug, so that I have created bug 12495 for this specific problem. The rest of this report is a request for a new functionality, not a bug report, so I am changing the severity accordingly.
The original discussion was archived to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Signatures/Archive_1#Imposing_signature_restrictions .
I feel the consensus there is outdated, there's been more talk about signatures lately (I don't remember in what direction). If still current, reopen or better file a new bug in Wikimedia>Site configuration with another bug, requesting this feature in MediaWiki>User preferences, as blocker.
