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: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)
::On that matter, I absolutely do not appreciate you/the bot having mass-changed all these bylines in old stories some months ago without consulting with the rest of the team first. There are various arguments against it, for example that it is ahistorical to retroactively change the byline of something that was published over a decade ago - it does make a difference whether a story was written under a pseudonym or a real name, for instance. But however one weighs the pros and cons here (also about which version of a contributor's name to standardize on), the main point is that it is not a technical decision but a content decision, one that can also greatly affects [[Search engine results page|SERPs]] for people's names btw.
::Regards, [[User:HaeB|HaeB]] ([[User talk:HaeB|talk]]) 20:59, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
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