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Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

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It would be easier for new editors to use talk pages if this interface was supported by DiscussionTools in some way. While there is a signature there already, other projects like Russian Wikipedia can find use in having that kind of use case supported by default so that the users do not have to follow the signature conventions to the T.

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I think you should be able to use dtpreload for this: T269310 cc @matmarex

I think you should be able to use dtpreload for this: T269310 cc @matmarex

@stjn: a gentle nudge to see if you've had a moment to experiment with the solution @Esanders shared above.

Help documentation can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:DiscussionTools#Experimental:_Preloading_message_content .

+1. This is related to one of the initial concepts of Flow/StructuredDiscussions, which was to provide a workflow engine that could allow for different types of structured requests (AIV, edit requests, etc, a la user scripts such as Twinkle, but for everyone).

@stjn: a gentle nudge to see if you've had a moment to experiment with the solution @Esanders shared above.

Help documentation can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:DiscussionTools#Experimental:_Preloading_message_content .

Sorry, I somehow didn’t see it. Added it to edit request buttons now: https://ru.wikipedia.org/?diff=134726605

Works fine from my testing. I’ll add it to the other places as well. Let’s see how it goes.