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~~~~SineBot signs their posts and thinks you should too!
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This user maintains a strict policy advising against all personal attacks.
This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues.
This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 5 months and 23 days.
This user enjoys contributing to Wikipedia without wearing clothes.
Footage of the bot's rarely-seen Sine wave.

SineBot

SineBot is a bot that is designed to replace HagermanBot, which added ((Unsigned)) and ((UnsignedIP)) tags to unsigned edits made to talk pages as well as a handful of non-talk pages. The bot derives its name from a happy coincidence: "signing" on Wikipedia involves typing four tildes in a row (~~~~). Each tilde resembles the graphical representation of a sine function, and, of course, the very word "sine" is a homophone of "sign." Moreover, the word "sine" means "without" in the Latin language.

A graph of the displacement of the bot's sine wave. It is fighting with its evil archenemy, the cosine wave.

What SineBot does

Where SineBot does it

After a long day's work, SineBot can get pretty stressed.

Opting out

Single person

Single edit

To explicitly disable autosigning on a single specific edit, place !nosign! or !nosine! anywhere in the edit summary.

Entire talk page

Entire pages can be excluded using ((bots)) allow/deny tags. This is useful if you don't want the bot signing comments to your talk page. However, be sure to establish consensus on article talk pages before denying the bot from signing comments made to them.

Do note that even when ((bots)) is used to prevent SineBot operating on your user talk page, the bot will still issue reminders when it signs posts on your behalf at other pages (as signing your posts is required by the Wikipedia:Signatures guideline, and the bot should not be used as an alternative to properly signing posts yourself).

Opting back in for experienced editors

Editors with over 800 edits are ignored by the bot by default, with the assumption that they should already know the signatures guideline by that point and that if they didn't sign, it was either intentional or the result of doing something complex (e.g. refactoring discussions). Many experienced users, however, would like the bot to continue to look after their edits in case they forget to sign.

Therefore, for experienced editors wishing to re-enable autosigning of unsigned comments, you can add ((YesAutosign)) to your User: or User talk: page and wait a few minutes for it to take effect. See the corresponding template page for more info.

Note that if you frequently forget to sign or stop signing altogether, the bot will continue to pester you with ((tilde)) warnings—even if you attempt to use a ((bots)) or ((nobots)) tag to deny it access to your User talk: page. This is intended behavior to prevent abuse of the bot.

What it looks for

Playing with it

To see SineBot in action, try leaving an unsigned comment in its sandbox just as you would leave a comment anywhere else.

Siblings

This bot has a twin on the English WikiNews.

Nerdy details

Maintainer

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, compliments, or complaints, please contact slakr, this bot's developer.

Status

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