Topic on Talk:Talk pages project/Replying/Flow

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Task T268558

Hey! So I love the reply tool, however I do wish there was a setting that would allow me to disable the automatic addition of a signature as when I include any kind of formatting in my signature (like <small> <s> (strikethrough) ) or add anything after my signature, the reply tool seems to be unable to recognize my signature and thinks I haven't added one yet, so a setting to disable the automatic addition of a signature would be very helpful so I don't have to go back through and remove the duplicate signature. Blaze The Wolf (talk) 18:37, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Also, if you reply to this, please let me know on English Wikipedia as I have no clue whether or not I'll receive a notification for this on English Wikipedia. Blaze The Wolf (talk) 18:40, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

@Blaze The Wolf Yes, you will get a notification. I got a blue 'mention' note on English Wikipedia of your post above because I have the talk page (Talk:Talk Pages Project/Replying) on my watchlist. Hopefully, you'll get the same for this reply to your second comment. Cheers

@Nick Moyes: I did indeed get this notification. Although looking at my watchlist it does not appear I have the page you mentioned in my watchlist. Blaze The Wolf (talk) 19:19, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Can you link to specific examples that do not work @Blaze The Wolf ?

@TheDJ: Most of the examples where this is the case I fixed it myself by removing the duplicate signature. But I could probably create a section on my talk page showing some examples that don't work. Blaze The Wolf (talk) 13:10, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

@TheDJ: Here's an example of where putting the 4 tildes to sign within some kind of formatting makes the reply tool think you haven't added a signature and therefore causes a duplicate signature: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Teahouse&oldid=1044673601

Why do you want to sign inside the small tags, instead of outside of them?

It looks better imo. Blaze The Wolf (talk) 01:15, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

The bigger problem is that there is no way for the software to differentiate between this:

<small>This is a funny remark. ~~~~</small>

and:

You need to type ~~~~ at the end of every comment.  That code will produce your "signature", which looks something like this:  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 1:03, 21 September 2021 (UTC) when you save the page.  If you do that at the end of every message, then people will quit yelling at you.

In the first instance, it's obvious to a human that another signature is superfluous; in the second, another signature is wanted.

See phab:T268558.