Forum:Templated sigs

Hello, I'm new on this wiki, however some of you may know me already from here. I have spotted another issue with sigs on this wiki, and I believe it deserves its own forum page. The issue is that sigs here, like on any wiki with customised sigs, require a lot of code, and as a result on any page where there is a discussion, there's loads, and I mean LOADS of sig code, and sifting through it can be a pain, and it can seriously lag up a page. On my home wiki, our solution is a rule for all sigs to be templated, i.e. people store their sig's code on Template:Signatures/Bluefire2 (I'm using my name as an example here), and in their custom sig code box in preferences, instead of pasting in the full code they put in Signatures/Bluefire2 (again, I used my name as an example). This means that me writing ~ will return, and if my sig's template page is deleted, the later part of the code makes Bluefire2 (talk) appear instead (of course this can be customised to your preference). My suggestion here is to make it mandatory for all sigs to be templated, a) to prevent lag and loads of code on pages, and b) to allow for sig updates and to prevent files that were removed from the sig in an update and then deleted to clog up Special:WantedFiles, files that are linked to, but don't exist. I hope people here will seriously consider my proposal. — Bluefire2 (talk) 20:49, December 2, 2011 (UTC)

Support - as proposer. — Bluefire2 (talk) 20:49, December 2, 2011 (UTC)