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::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)
:::Perhaps this was dumb. I did post about this to [[Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/Technical#Byline_pages|Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Technical]] back in January; perhaps some more discussion would have been good. From the height of a few months, this seems like it would have been a better choice, but at the time, I was just trying to make author search function. What I discovered was that the lack of machine-readable Signpost archives was concealing a [[Special:Permalink/1136012646|bizarre shitpile]] of some 1,212 distinct author fields, about [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Statistics/Authors|300 of which]] were nonsense. For example, sorting alphabetically gives <code>[User:GerardM</code>, <code><nowiki>{{{2}}}</nowiki></code>, <code>§hep</code>, <code>\/</code>, <code>+sj +</code>, <code>2 May</code>, <code>3 July 2006</code>, <code>03 July 2006</code>, <code>3family6</code>, <code>3family6 1 April 2016 19:58 (UTC)</code>, <code>05 November 2007</code>, <code>10 other editors</code>, <code>11 other editors</code>, <code>12 August 2015</code>, <code>14 April</code>, <code>18 August</code>, <code>19 November 2012</code>, <code>22mikpau</code>, <code>24 April</code>, <code>24 Apri</code>, <code>26 April 2010</code>, <code>27 other editors,</code>, <code>28 other editors</code>, <code>32 other editors</code>, <code>38 editors</code>, <code>51 other editors</code>, <code>53 other editors</code>, <code>79 other editors</code>, <code>91 editors</code>, <code>106 editors on the French Wikipedia; translated for The Signpost by JohnNewton8</code>, <code>273 other editors</code>, <code>1233</code>, <code>2008</code>, <code>16912 Rhiannon 15 July 2015</code> (literally all of which are parsing errors except for three); your articles, specifically, were under <code>HaeB</code>, <code>Tilman Bayer</code>, <code>Tilman Bayer</code>, <code>Tilman Bayer 1 April 2016 19:58 (UTC)</code>, <code>Tilman Bayer 03:08 (UTC)</code> (two of those ''appearing'' to be identical strings, but one of them with a nonprinting character). I guess what I am trying to say here is that if you want me to de-alias your name changes, I can do that, but I think that given the volume of work being done it was not something I could realistically post about at [[WT:Signpost]] (I recall that around December/January you had been saying we should be stricter about posting stuff on the right talk pages, which is why it was at /Technical). '''[[User:JPxG|jp]]'''×'''[[User talk:JPxG|g]]''' 23:14, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
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