Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4984687-20150326040341

Hello there

If you've read the signature policy, you may have noticed it's a bit out of date. This is a proposition to change the "How do I change my signature?" section.

In said section, it states that in order to change or customize a signature, a template must be created. This is not the proper way to do this. Using templates for signatures is generally a mess, so creating a signature as a subspace of a personal userspace should instead be suggested.

It works similarly to a sandbox, and there are additional advantages to using a signature as a userspace subspace rather than a template. In a nutshell, the userspace location is a much better option. Examples of this include: User:SuperSajuuk/Signature and User:Emperor Jarjarkine/Sig3. In both cases, the general "Sig" part is retained. This makes it easy to find when browsing through a user subspace in the search bar, rather than browsing the template subspaces. As an example I instructed a user on the Crossy Road Wiki on how to do this seen here. There is little to no penalty or restrictions on user subspaces in comparison to templates as they are in a sense sandboxes.

So, for this proposal what I think should happen is that the "How do I change my signature?" section of the signature policy should be updated to use user subspaces instead of templates in the instructions and examples. Please keep in mind that Template:Signature will not be deleted as many old signatures still rely on it and deleting it would result in said signatures being broken. The template system will be retired, but not deleted. 