Wikipedia allows users to customise their signature. This makes it very hard to detect what a signature looks like. Users who are frequently active could influence our results through this.
However, removing something like [[User:*|*]] (where * is a wildcard) could also be a bad idea. It could be likely that in heated discussions, users would abuse this e.g. to express "Just look at [[User:*|this jerk]]". Similar goes for [[User talk:*|*]]. Even then, we would still not be able to capture the additional text that user's could put around their signatures.
The Wikipedia user Wikimandia for example uses a signature
[[User:Wikimandia|<font color="#0066cc">—'''''Мандичка'''''</font>]]<sup>[[User talk:Wikimandia|<font color="#6600cc">'''''YO'''''</font>]]</sup> 😜
Where we are stuck with "Мандичка", "yo" and "😜". — and yes, the application won't lowercase Cyrillic letters.
Wikipedia allows users to customise their signature. This makes it very hard to detect what a signature looks like. Users who are frequently active could influence our results through this.
However, removing something like
[[User:*|*]](where*is a wildcard) could also be a bad idea. It could be likely that in heated discussions, users would abuse this e.g. to express "Just look at[[User:*|this jerk]]". Similar goes for[[User talk:*|*]]. Even then, we would still not be able to capture the additional text that user's could put around their signatures.The Wikipedia user Wikimandia for example uses a signature
[[User:Wikimandia|<font color="#0066cc">—'''''Мандичка'''''</font>]]<sup>[[User talk:Wikimandia|<font color="#6600cc">'''''YO'''''</font>]]</sup> 😜Where we are stuck with "Мандичка", "yo" and "😜". — and yes, the application won't lowercase Cyrillic letters.