Signed with pride: A gallery of user signatures created by Wikipedians themselves.
The January issue's In focus piece by DiplomatTesterMan mentioned Athaenara's signature gallery. Here it is – reformatted slightly for The Signpost – for readers' enjoyment.
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- This piece was a neat idea; the signatures we see communicate individuality that make us real people, not just machines. I will point out that my favorite signature has always been Chrissymad's. Chris Troutman (talk) 11:51, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
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- Golly, this year has started off with a bang for my Wikipedia Signature Gallery!
- First a mention in last month's Signpost (The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages) and now this month somebody copied nearly the whole darned thing?!?
- The signature gallery project probably self-taught me as much about html markup and wikipedia editing details as any article I wrote. I started it on my talk page, of all places, trying the patience of some experienced editors at the time (first six sigs in November 2006).
- What the heck, anyway, here's another doozy, what's not to love? – Athaenara ✉ 13:04, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- While I'm responsible for the Gallery in my user space and "authored" it, I did not have anything to do with this Signpost page. I think it was a bit much, to put it mildly: a section or two with some commentary about why Bri thought it was worthy of Signpost inclusion would have been more interesting. But this is Wikipedia, where the editing never stops: hey, Bri, it's not to late to pare it down! – Athaenara ✉ 05:27, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- "By Athaenara" in the byline really bothered me, so I removed it (diff). – Athaenara ✉ 23:14, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- While all of these signatures are lovely, I've always been a fan for the good ole classic default one. Can't beat a classic. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:23, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- Anyone "flying" an image (not emoji) flag is violating Wikipedia:Signatures#Images. We shouldn't create a fancy gallery for these. Furthermore, I dislike the idea of adding fancy colors and HTML tags to a signature. If someone has something important to say, the arguments should stand out, not the signature. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:38, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- That reminds me, It is now almost ten years since we have had a Request for signatureship, at the time, mine was suggestion number 5. I'm not sure where that would fit in the article above. ϢereSpielChequers 23:06, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
- Side point, but if you're a killjoy like me who prefers not to see custom signatures, there is: this script which transforms everything to a uniform style when you view. --LukeSurl t c 09:16, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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