ESB:Proposals/Signature policy (revision 2)

	Proposal Archive The following proposal has been discussed and is now marked as resolved. The page has been protected and now serves as an archive. Do not edit this page. Date Resolved: September 17, 2014 Result: Proposal passes.

Introduction

Greetings. A couple months back, we had a discussion regarding signatures. Signatures are an essential part of wiki discussions, indicating which comments are posted by which editors. While signatures should not be used on article pages, editors are required to sign off their posts on discussions, RfA’s, etc… Now, we all love to customize and use our signatures in discussions. But, there are a few signatures that are so large in size, they distort us from clearing seeing the actual discussion. For example, large animated .gifs, and super long signatures disrupt the flow of an organized discussion.

With the consent and support of AMK152, I am proposing a new policy for our signatures that will be enforced vigilantly.

Proposal

Editors are permitted to use custom signatures. However, they are required to follow a set of guidelines.

Images

This is what 30 pixels looks like.

Users are permitted to have images in their signatures, or as their signature, so long as the height does not exceed 30 pixels. This includes animated signatures, but some may stop animating below a certain pixel size. Images over 30 pixels cause the spacing between two lines of text to be disproportionate, and animated signatures can result in longer load times for discussion pages. As a general guideline, however, please do not use images or font sizes that will interfere with the lines of text.

Used space

As said in the section above, signatures may not be more than 30 pixels high. This includes big font sizes, but also the length of a signature. A signature may not be so long that when viewed in the Wikia skin with the toolbar aside it, it is wider than one line. Also, signatures may not take up more than one line (any enters in the signature's code should be removed, as when it is used in an indented list (replies to others) it will break up the signature when there are enters in the code). The <noinclude> tag may be put around enters to make the code look cleaner, or  may be put around codes to prevent them from having such effects.

Usernames

Names used in signatures must be consistent with the Wikia username. In order to prevent confusion, users should not use alternate names when signing edits. Names should at least be recognizable (e.g. User:RandomUser305 signing off as "RU305"), but not differ too greatly as to mistake the signature for a different user.

Fraud

Any links on a signature that do not operate in the way they appear are forbidden as they can cause confusion among users. This includes links that log users out.

A user's signature that has the text colored in any way that will cause confusion among users is not allowed.

Enforcement

Administrators reserve the right to adjust signatures according to the guidelines.

Discussion

Support

Support - We need to have a decent signature policy. Joey ^(talk)
Support - ~summer 01:35, September 10, 2014 (UTC)
Support - Yep, agree. --Spongebob456 ^talk 06:30, September 10, 2014 (UTC)
Strong Support - — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 13:22, September 10, 2014 (UTC)
Support - I guess it wouldn't be too bad. ZeoSpark Talk Contribs Edits 13:32,9/10/2014
Weak Support - Now that Zeo has helped me with my gif problem. I think i'm ok with this. Auron May the odds be ever in your favor! 02:38,8/23/2015
Support - well, thanks 456 and Andrew for letting me know about that my sig won't have any problems with this rule, i'll support it for Joseph. --Tominator777 (talk) 04:20, September 12, 2014 (UTC)

Oppose

change - 60 Pixels wold be better. 30 is way to tiny. Auron May the odds be ever in your favor! 02:38,8/23/2015

"Images over 30 pixels cause the spacing between two lines of text to be disproportionate, and animated signatures can result in longer load times for discussion pages." Joey ^(talk)

Oppose - i feel afraid that this rule would make it so i can't vote on anything anymore , as my sig has a link (labeled "talk")that redirects to my "talk page" on ESB (not my massage wall, it takes me to here ), and it's the Wikia default Sig --Tominator777 (talk) 03:44, September 10, 2014 (UTC)

That isn't an issue at all. My signature does exactly the same thing. That is a natural Wikia redirect so no malice is there. --Spongebob456 ^talk 06:29, September 10, 2014 (UTC)

Yeah Tom, your signature is perfect. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 01:16, September 11, 2014 (UTC)

Neutral

Neutral - Meh... Nicko756 ^{(M•C•E) Sign!} 01:21, September 10, 2014 (UTC)
Neutral leaning Oppose - Um...^{(Talk•Contributions)}

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