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{{ping|JPxG}} About [[Special:Diff/1139235436]]: it looks like [[User:WegweiserBot|WegweiserBot]] is using display names for author names, but [[WP:SPT]] is using usernames. This is going to cause the two scripts to keep overriding each other, so we should choose one approach. I would prefer to include only username, as that makes it easier to do things like make user links. I can see that there would be a case for listing display names instead, though. Or if we really want, we could include both, in tables like <syntaxhighlight inline lang="lua">{user = "Bluerasberry", display = "Lane Rasberry"}</syntaxhighlight>. What do you think would be best? — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 04:28, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
:{{ping|Mr. Stradivarius}} Sorry for not having responded to this for a million years (I thought I had at the time). I pondered this for a while; what I eventually came up with was for each writer to be credited under one canonical name, which in a great many cases was the person's real name -- or failing that, whatever name they want to be credited under. Just going by username would simplify the process of linking to their userpage, but it's sometimes the case that we run articles from people with different home wikis, or Heaven forfend, people who aren't Wikimedians at all -- so I think whatever scheme we use should account for this. The idea of having two fields for the author does put another idea in my head, which is to have some kind of structured data for authors.
:Most newspapers and magazines have bylines for authors, which appear under their articles, and on the CMS's author page (e.g. https://slate.com/author/mary-c-curtis shows Mary Curtis's articles, but also "Mary C. Curtis is a columnist at Roll Call and host of its Equal Time podcast" etc etc). It occurs to me that this would be nice to do for ''Signpost'' articles as well, which would allow for the freedom to link to whatever someone wanted (like say they wanted the link to go to their blog or personal website), as well as to give more detailed bylines than just a name.
:I don't know how complicated it would be to implement something like that in the module -- my guess is "very" -- so it is more of a pipe dream I'm plopping out here than a thing I think is likely to actually happen, but it is worth considering. Maybe. '''[[User:JPxG|jp]]'''×'''[[User talk:JPxG|g]]''' 08:19, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
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