MarioWiki:Proposals

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Abolish the No-Signature Policy
The no-signature policy is a policy that has pretty much become pointless nowadays yet it stil exists. Back when it was first established it used to be effective and one used for on various different things including this proposals and the long extinct Pipe Projects and Featured Images. Over the years the amount of pages this policy is used for has decreased massively but now as far as I’m aware this policy is only used in two areas: featured articles nominations and in both cases its useage does not match what the policy states.

In the case of featured articles nominations, there is no enforcement of it whatsoever. Here users just decide to put their regular sig in when they comment and they are not corrected or told off for doing so.

With appeals, it doesn’t even follow the guidelines the no-signature policy lists. No-signature policy recommends people to use and forces users to link their user page or talk page when writing a comment. Neither of theses are present when writing appeals.

Therefore because of the reasons I listed above I believe the best thing to do here is to abolish policy altogether. Should this proposal pass these changes will be implemented

1. The deletion of No-signature policy 2. Featured Articles and  appeals will no longer mention the no-signature policy. 3. Signatures will now officially be allowed on the comments of featured articles nominations (even though they have be used for awhile anyway) 4. A message will be written on the appeals page asking people not to sign their comments.

If anyone has any amendments they would like to make to this proposal, feel free to suggest in the comments. Proposer: Deadline: July 4, 2020, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per Proposal

Oppose

 * 1) - I don't see a good enough reason to outright remove this. I believe the reason why it was made in the first place was so signatures do not take up too much space. You can see examples of this in older proposals from the first few years of the wiki. For proposals, feature/unfeature nominations, and appeals, I'd rather use the  template. Signatures are mainly meant for signing talk comments, but can feel like they are in the way in the case of larger signatures (like mine) if used for anything else.

Comments
By the "deletion" of the policy, you mean that there should be an template at the top of the page? 10:12, June 27, 2020 (EDT)

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