Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-188432-20120827220853/@comment-188432-20120828153726

Yeah, I get it now — a litle late, since the bot's fully engaged at tardis, but now that I see the point, it would be churlish of me not to admit that I was wrong. You're right. It doesn't actually require the cleanup. And to Mathmagician — yes, you told me this at the beginning as well. So you're "right", too. But your approach throughout this discussion deadened my ear to your solutions. Your attitude made me believe you were more concerned about engendering Staff support than considering my needs and interests. I again urge you to remember that threatening Staff involvement isn't a great way of eliciting positive reactions from those you're talking to. It makes the whole conversation about "right" and "wrong" — about policy. And you didn't care what I thought about policy. You cared about trying to get me to change my signature.

Thanks, Eladkse, for returning this to a question of code, rather than "correctness".

Even though using new templates does solve the problem agreeably enough, it's a bit of work creating these new templates multiple times on every wiki where I use my signature. This solution may well be easier than I thought, but it's still more work outside this wiki than it is here. And nowhere else requires it but here. Although I've already complied, it's wrong to be forced to modify my signature Wikia-wide based on unwritten policy at Central, a place where only the tiniest fraction of my global edits reside. Except in cases of gross abuse, one wiki – even if it's Central — should not have the power to force a change in my behavior on another wiki.