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Open Proposal

The following is an ongoing proposalthat has been endorsed by AMK152. Please feel free to voice your opinion, but be sure to follow the rules.


How proposals work
    Concerns stage
  1. Someone brings up a topic for a proposal.
  2. The community discusses that topic.
  3. Voting stage
  4. The proposal is brought to a vote, taking into account any changes discussed by the community.
  5. The community votes.

You can use any of the following prior to your comments to show your opinion.

{{Support}} • {{Neutral}} • {{Oppose}} • {{Change}} • {{Comment}} • {{Reply}} • {{Question}}
Neutral votes do not count in determining the outcome percentage.


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

I love you patrick star by thunderbulletmlp-d6cclg7

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 <!-- and --> 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 Support - We need to have a decent signature policy. Shyguy-emoticon.gifJoey (talk)
  • Support Support - ~summer 01:35, September 10, 2014 (UTC)

Oppose

"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." Shyguy-emoticon.gifJoey (talk)
  • Oppose 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 a non-existant talk page. --Tominator777 (talk) 03:44, September 10, 2014 (UTC)

Neutral

  • Neutral Neutral - Meh...  Nicko756 (MCE) Sign!Dp  01:21, September 10, 2014 (UTC) 


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