For the purposes of backwards compatibility, refactoring, and facilitating migration from old ugly talk pages and LQT, Flow should let users sign a post for another person, such as if the post was signed by an anonymous user before logging in by mistake, or it was moved from an ugly non-Flowised place and the message creation date needs to be visible on the new post properly (while the edit date would be today).
Related pages:
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | Nemo_bis | T88102 Consider possibility of enabling Flow on translatewiki.net | |||
| Open | None | T78253 Features for refactoring conversations (reassigning authors, splitting posts, moving/reindenting posts), etc. | |||
| Open | None | T97986 Flow should support re-signatures |
Flow does not have signatures.
Are you proposing to change the author field for this? What is to stop people from simply forging authors (taking an anonymous post and choosing a logged in user who supposedly wrote it but really didn't)? Do you propose restricting this right to prevent abuse?
The one use case where I think this might be necessary is if someone forgets to log in, and you want to "claim" your own post and sign it as your own user name.
I don't understand the suggestion that you'd want to edit a message creation date; it's system-generated.