User talk:216.8.14.76

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[edit] Re: comment interference

Thanks for your comment. The relevant guideline is Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages. Typically, editors should sign their comments using four tildes, which you presumably did here. If editors don't sign in this manner, it can be confusing to see who wrote what—and without a link to the user's account, it is difficult to check the user's contribution, visit his talk page, and so on. Often, if editors don't sign their posts or don't include all the information, other users may add the missing material for clarity. Does that make sense? Please let me know if you have further questions. Thanks! — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:44, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Why the hostility? I don't understand why this is so important to you, or why you perceive me to be engaging in "control-freakery" or passive-agressive hostility. I saw that you didn't like the {{unsigned}} template because it said that you didn't sign your comments, but at the same time, you were removing the link to yourself. (Incidentally, users shouldn't have to dig through the history to find out who left a comment, and it's especially worse if the page has been archived.) I thought a reasonable compromise would be to stick a link to your username next to it in a way that didn't imply anything about your signing habits. If you choose not to use a standard signature, you should certainly expect that people messages will be duly annotated. The link should be next to your comment so that it is easily noticed when reading the comment. It is unlikely anyone would think it is part of your comment, since it follows your "signature", it is enclosed in brackets, and it uses the standard {{user}} template. If you'd prefer, why don't you just use a standard signature there, like you're doing here, and that way no note would be needed. — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:44, 16 February 2006 (UTC)