[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Mon Jun 5 18:55:23 UTC 2006

maru wrote:
>On 6/5/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would it be possible to limit the length of the signature? There's
>> probably a limit to how offensively creative one can be in 50
>> characters...
>
> A good idea. Unless one has an absurdly long name, it should be
> possible to add one's name, a link to the talk page and contribs, and
> a little extra something- but no more! - within ~ 50 characters.
> Someone want to file a bug request for this?

At the same time, or maybe even first, we should change the
default, software-supplied sig to automatically include `talk'
and `contrib' links -- that way, many of us wouldn't need custom
sigs at all.