Forum:Signature policy

Proposed Policy

 * All signatures must clearly display the username of the posting user. Since this is the English Kingdom Hearts Wiki, all signatures must also use a Latin script (A, B, C... X, Y, Z) to display the user name.
 * For those of you with creative Japanese signatures, these will still be allowed, so long as your usual user name has already been written out in Latin characters.
 * Abridging is fine, so long as the author of the comment is still obvious.
 * All signatures must be followed or include a timestamp. This is not a large issue since this is already being done for the most part, but without a timestamp, we cannot tell when a discussion has taken place, and therefore its relevance/acknowledgment of other related discussions.
 * NO MORE UNNECESSARILY AND OBNOXIOUSLY LARGE IMAGES. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. Images must fit within the size parameters of the text, which is 15px. This shall be the limit for image size.
 * All signatures must link to at least the central user page of the posting user, i.e. not their "Userpage+" or user sub-page. Those can be linked to as well, of course, but the central user page is a necessity.

Comments
I'm for this policy, and I think you covered probably the most important points. It reminds me of the HRWiki signature policy, which seems a reasonable guideline for signatures. -- 02:31, December 12, 2010 (UTC)

Complex? I've never had to use the five tildes, it's always added a timestamp automatically, and I barely did anything to set up my sig... -- 05:28, December 12, 2010 (UTC)

EDIT CONFLICT: @17master For that, you have to create an autosig page, put your template in that, and them use that autosig in your custom signature in preferences, it gives you an automatic timestamp. 05:33, December 12, 2010 (UTC)

Yep, I've got that. I already fixed it. 05:36, December 12, 2010 (UTC)

The problem I have with that argument is that the idea that the policy should allow for users to choose the pictures they want kind of negates the point of having a policy in the first place. Not that we can't be more lax than x15px in height. After all, x20px is still small enough to fit on a single line with no trouble whatsoever. And I don't think and  are too unrecognizable. -- 01:36, December 16, 2010 (UTC)

That's not really what you mean. You mean you trust the wiki as a whole to agree with your opinions.

The fact is, I don't really know why we've never had a signature policy of any kind before. As one of those things that are up to users to create and customize, it really only makes sense for there to be a policy so that they're aren't disruptive. On contrary to what you believe, there is no reason to tolerate disruption on talk pages any more than on the Keyblade War pages. -- 02:16, December 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * My view - it is a pain in the ASS to fix image links when they appear in signatures, and most of our images need to be renamed. At the very least, we should have a policy that if people are using our images in signatures, they should be called through a template, so that only one edit needs to be made to fix the links on every page they appear. 02:38, December 16, 2010 (UTC)

Revised Policy

 * All signatures must link to a page in the posting user's userspace, preferably their user page or talk page.
 * Stylizing your signature with colors and fonts is absolutely fine, and even encouraged, but all special text must have the codes closed with  or.
 * All signatures must be followed by or include a timestamp in some form.
 * ALL IMAGES MUST BE NO MORE THAN x17px, TO PREVENT AFFECTING THE LINE'S HEIGHT.
 * All personal images used must be linked from Photobucket or another image-sharing site; all images being hosted on the wiki are fine to use if sized properly.
 * If you are you going to use an image in your signature, it must be transcluded through a template.

Approval/Disapproval
Either would be helpful, though it would probably just need a subsection on the New User's Guide than a full Help page. -- 03:42, December 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * We should make a section on the sitenotice or a banner on the front page advertising this forum and the new policy, at least for a while. We want maximum attention. -- 03:48, December 19, 2010 (UTC)