On 30 September 2014 20:58, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Would this mean that if people had a fancy sig, and
they changed it,
it would automatically update everywhere with this magic tag instead
of just applying to new signatures? (Which might be cool)
Downside to that you might have some tricky issue where people change
their sig after the fact to be something malicious (For some
definition of malicious), and then all the old sigs change without an
edit to track it and generally be a vehicle for mass vandalism.
(Didn't that use to be an issue on /. ?)
This also makes working out ​what the state of the page at time X quite
hard for things like "Please note that I am being paid to edit by XYZ Inc."
that come and go from month to month to be seen. I'd not be a fan of
changing this expectation without a huge amount of prior notice, and
definitely not doing to retrospectively…
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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