Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Signature forgery

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The result of the debate was Redirected to WP:SIG, non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 23:00, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Signature forgery

Misleading (actually, outright untrue) "policy" page; the policy is covered by WP:SIG, and the part about the "automated detection" is not and never will be true. – iride scent 20:46, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You jumped the gun; it can be merged with WP:Signatures, and it is a proposed policy. It will likely be revised. -- IRP ☎ 20:53, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tag rejected and archive. I doubt there will ever be a consensus to implement, but we don't tend to delete this type of proposal. It would, in any case, be best managed by proposing an amendment to WP:SIG as suggested above. Stifle (talk) 20:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I would like to at least make sure that forging the signature of another user is against the policy. -- IRP ☎ 21:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Have you read WP:SIG? Most specifically, the part which discusses this in great detail? We do not and never will have "an automated system for detecting forgery", and the rest is already covered. – iride scent 21:09, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So then the redirect will be fine. -- IRP ☎ 22:29, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I've redirected the page to the existing policy. -- IRP ☎ 21:13, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Perhaps proposing this policy was the wrong way to suggest this idea. Maybe a bot could be developed that performs as this proposed policy describes. I know just about nothing about the coding involved, but I expect it would detect when a signature links to a user page or user talk page other than that belonging to the signer. I can only imagine that a zillion things could go wrong with that kind of bot, but there's a process for proposing and testing bots, and I'm confident that it would deal with those questions effectively. Who knows, maybe someone will come up with "an automated system for detecting forgery" someday!--otherlleft (talk) 21:16, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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