Wikipedia talk:Signatures

Government Sites like Texas.Gov are Free-Use

You recently erroneously deleted a whole page I created due to "Copyright Infringement" because I copied the text from the site, which is allowed in Texas. Texas allows free-use of the Government site content like the one I used and you were outside your lane deleting the whole thing. It was an award and I copied the EXACT Qualifications for the awards, the same way we post US Military Awards and qualifications here. We don't edit them or change them we post exactly how DOD/or the Branch lists it.

Please un-delete my page as you're incorrect. TheNathanMuir (talk) 18:22, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TheNathanMuir: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Wikipedia:Signatures. You should probably ask the person who deleted that page. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:06, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing old format timestamps in others' signatures

At least signatures from 2002–2005 used some old timestamp formats like:

User:Example 22:50, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
User:Example 17:06, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

(these examples are from Talk:Chris_Claremont#List_of_X-Men_characters_created_by_Claremont).

These timestamps use the MDY format and/or shortened months.

Such signatures prevent the Reply button from showing up. Additionally, the "Latest comment: 19 years ago - 1 comment - 1 person in discussion" information section below the section header won't include these comments. You also can't subscribe to a section if it lacks that information section under the header.

So, if I see these old signatures, am I allowed to fix them by rearranging them to the DMY format and writing out the month? Or is there a planned fix for these in MediaWiki? Perhaps a bot run could be arranged to fix these? It should be an easy task, but would require tens of thousands of edits: [1], [2]. 2001:14BA:9C40:0:B03E:AC7D:4B9F:7666 (talk) 19:02, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about planned MediaWiki fixes, nor about bot tasks, but I do know that WP:TPO#Signature cleanup permits you may edit the signature to the standard form with correct information. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:25, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's a bug report about this situation at T246047, but as far as I know there are no plans to handle it in the software. Matma Rex talk 21:41, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

5 tildes style

Should the 5 tildes (~~~~~) be gray, to reflect the style on comment pages (e.g. see the end of this comment)? Tule-hog (talk) 23:47, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No. The style for the timestamp in a signature indicates that it is a link to where the signature was used. There was a mention of this at WP:VPT a couple of months ago. Johnuniq (talk) 01:41, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tule-hog: No. It's not grey where it is actually used - in the editing box. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:44, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

nuh uh Mcflurry2212 (talk) 09:08, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Technical display bug

Why on mobile it shows to use === when in edit == headers

--Luhanopi (talk) 17:08, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Luhanopi: Which part of Wikipedia:Signatures does this relate to? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:42, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Technical, to that page itself.

Headers on Mobile show as H3 but the source uses H2 and H2 should be used.

-- Luhanopi (talk) 06:23, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The page markup includes:

== How to sign your posts ==
=== Preferred option ===
==== Standard signature ====
=== Other options ===
==== Using three tildes ====
==== Using five tildes ====

and on mobile this is what I am served:

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)">
  <h2 id="How_to_sign_your_posts">How to sign your posts</h2>
</div>
<section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3">
  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3">
    <h3 id="Preferred_option">Preferred option</h3>
  </div>
  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4">
    <h4 id="Standard_signature">Standard signature</h4>
  </div>
  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3">
    <h3 id="Other_options">Other options</h3>
  </div>
  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4">
    <h4 id="Using_three_tildes">Using three tildes</h4>
  </div>
  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4">
    <h4 id="Using_five_tildes">Using five tildes</h4>
  </div>
</section>

These headings are correct. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:13, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]