Topic on Talk:New requirements for user signatures

Per en:WP:SIGRANT.

I wish.

I disagree. Computers work for humans, not the other way around, and I enjoy the diversity of user signatures on ENWP which already has several guidelines in place at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures.

On the other hand, ‘diversity of user signatures’ makes our wikis less welcoming to people with colour blindness and disabilities that require using a screen reader to edit (since, I imagine, they have to go through a lot of useless code to know, say, who to ping in a discussion). You have to wonder what kind of diversity we should value.

Four years ago I wrote a script that removes most of signature clutter it can detect (only possible to use in Russian wikis, but I can probably fix it), so obviously I concur.

Imagine that a postal service started demanding we sign our letters in a particular way. Don't be so restrictive. It is unnecessary and condescending to volunteers

No imagination needed: Emails sent via Wikipedia are text-only

Maybe you can't imagine the difference between w:mail and w:e-mail