User talk:Hroðulf

Welcome
DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 03:43, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Signatures
I'm unsure where you got the idea that signatures are not needed on a comments page. Signatures allow people to work out who said what. There's a commmunity-approved machine usually adds them, but I'm doing it myself right now as it seems to have broken down. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 14:32, 4 January 2009 (UTC)


 * From my observation, I think the bot only works on collaboration pages, not on opinion pages.
 * I got the idea because the head of a talk page says, Please remember to sign all comments with ~  but the head of an opinion page doesn't. Most newspaper websites only expect the vaguest of attributions to their comments, and my feeling is that Wikinews should be the same.  However I think a conversation flows better if contributors voluntarily post a signature of some kind, as I have done.
 * --Hroðulf (talk) 21:47, 4 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The bot did comments pages as well before it broke down; see here. Since a username is pretty hard to identify people from unless you choose it not to be, and when you edit without logging in the top of the page warns you that your IP is recorded, I don't have a problem with these being used on signatures. I guess the template should probably say something about signing comments. I'll go sort that out. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 23:03, 4 January 2009 (UTC)