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Comment signing

I would to remind everyone to please sign your comments.

Most of the regulars picked up the habit, but new people or people who
only make a few occasional edits often forget to sign their comments.

I would like to ask everyone to:
a) Sign their comments.
b) Add this template I "created" (ehm, ripped from Wikipedia) to
   unsigned comments:
  {{subst:unsigned|user name or IP|time, date}}
  The username/IP and date can be copied from the page's history.
c) Ask users who do not sign their comments to do so.

Mediawiki is a nice wiki, but having discussions on it is just as much
fun as getting gang-raped by a group of male Klingons, adding comments
helps keeping track of the discussion (Which is already difficult
enough).

Thank you,
Martin Tournoij (Carpetsmoker)

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Angela | 18 Apr 22:53

Re: Comment signing

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Martin Tournoij
<carpetsmoker@...> wrote:
> I would to remind everyone to please sign your comments.

And in case anyone doesn't know how, you simply need to type four
tildes (~~~~) for a signature with timestamp.

3 of them will sign without the timestamp. 5 will add just the timestamp.

You can change your nickname or signature formatting in your
preferences at http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Preferences

There's also a shortcut button on the editing toolbar which you can
click for the same effect. It looks like this:
http://images.wikia.com/common/skins-200804.3/common/images/button_sig.png

Angela

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John Beckett | 19 Apr 11:26

Re: Comment signing

Martin Tournoij wrote:
> I would to remind everyone to please sign your comments.
> 
> Most of the regulars picked up the habit, but new people or 
> people who only make a few occasional edits often forget to 
> sign their comments.

Hmmm. On talk pages, we are in total agreement: Sign your comments.

I'm not sure about the "Comments" section that we have purposely retained in each
tip. We imported 1200 tips from vim.org, and almost all of them had several
comments, each with a signature and date/time. One of the first things we decided to
do was to prune out unhelpful information. 

In fact, every one of the 1200 tips has been manually edited to remove fluff such as
signatures and timestamps. That's a lot of editing! Most comments have been entirely
deleted, possibly after merging, although there are a couple of hundred tricky tips
left where we haven't yet been able to merge the useful information. However, we
have deleted distractions such as "Great tip" comments, and all signatures.

I've kept a few recent signatures because the comments were more about policy than
the actual tip, and it can be useful to know which of the regular contributors made
the comment. However, in the medium term, it is my intention to revisit those tips
and delete the signatures (if not the whole comment). I'm aware of only one or two
cases where having the signature is actually helpful to readers.

The long-term aim, of course, is to delete all comments. If they are helpful, merge
them into the tip. If they're not, delete them. BUT DON'T DELETE USEFUL INFORMATION
just because it doesn't fit with the current tip.

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