https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65910
--- Comment #9 from Quiddity <pandiculat...@gmail.com> --- (My apologies for continuing this slightly off-topic discussion, within the bug. I just wanted to add a quick explanation, in case it wasn't already known by everyone, or in case there are variant conditions at other non-Enwiki projects which is where I'm most-familiar. :) (In reply to Romaine from comment #8) > If it is really not allowed to use a template signature, I certainly would > have expected that all templates are substed, not just the entered one. As I understand it, at least on Enwiki, the potential-problem is that signature template-pages are not usually very widely watchlisted, and hence the many pages that someone's signature appears on, might easily be vandalized via that obscure subpage. They're also generally not semi-protected. Some users might have many thousands more transclusions than the ~6,000 pages that your signature-page is in. ( http://tools.wmflabs.org/templatecount/index.php?lang=nl&namespace=2&name=Romaine%2FHandtekening#bottom ) Or they might appear only on a few scattered and obscure talkpages, and not get seen, *by an editor who can track down the problem*, for many months/years. As for why secondary-templates in signatures are not automagically subst:d, I don't know (am not a dev), but it might be worth opening a new bug for it, or changing this bug to specifically address that issue, or something similar? I'll leave that up to better minds. </tangent> On-topic: I'm continuing to poke at bug 64778, and will treat that as the main bug for updates. HTH. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
