[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Thu Jun 8 17:41:33 UTC 2006

On 6/8/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/5/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/5/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > People should be allowed and encourage to develop their personal
> > > identity on Wikipedia
> >
> > Why?  Wikipedia isn't a web host, a blog or a social networking site.
> > Those who are looking for such sites will find that there are plenty
> > of those around.  There is only one Wikipedia.
>
> Wikipedia is a project that thrives only because people want to spend
> a ridiculous amount of their time on it.

If they want *us* to spend a ridiculous amount of time discerning the
comments on a discussion page from the clutter of their signatures, I
think they'll be very disappointed with Wikipedia.  But you know what?
 That's okay.  They can go somewhere else to play silly buggers.