Proposal:Auto sign on talk pages (done)
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[edit] Summary
One of the most common newbie mistakes is not to sign talkpages. You need to be a fairly experienced editor before you start editing talkpages in such a way that sometimes you don't want to sign your edit. So lets change things so that the software defaults to automatically adding ~~~~ at the end of every edit you make to a talkpage.
Now marked as done as {{LiquidThreads}} is going to do this.
[edit] Proposal
Set all accounts and IPs to default to auto sign on talkpages. Allow accounts to set autosign off either as a default or for particular edits.
Because so many of us are in the habit of always typing ~~~~ it will need to not add this where users have already signed manually.
Users will need to be informed that their edits to talkpages will default to signed.
[edit] Motivation
This will make things easier for newbies and save a lot of time instructing newbies. It will also save everyone five keystrokes on most of their talkpage edits.
[edit] Key Questions
- Why didn't we do this years ago?
[edit] Potential Costs
- Some IT costs, including rewriting various templates, especially all the welcome templates which currently have to lecture newbies about this.
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