<div dir="ltr">There are few policies that we've been implementing from time to time on the wiki that I would like to see go away. It's my belief that these policies are hard to maintain, ill-scalable, and unsupportable as-is. I suggest that we retire the following:<br>
<br>== Sign up lists ==<br>* Lists where people are encouraged to sign up to do a task or contribute to a given project.<br><br>There are several projects and pages that suggest that you sign-up to help do '$variable'. There are several problems with this idea.<br>
<br>There is no automatic mechanism in place to communicate to users who sign up on a list. If I wanted to send a message to this list, I would have to wade through User_talk: pages and communicate with each person individually each time I want to make an announcement. This is compounded by the fact that many users don't sign the page or add a link to their user page, and merely type their names.<br>
<br>What's more is that when users see a list of people who are supposedly participating on a '$variable' they are less inclined to join than a project with few visible members.<br><br>I feel that a projects should have open task lists or joining a list or some other mechanism than a sign up list. Alternatively, if someone were to create a bot or tool that makes this ad-hoc list broadcasting function (including making sure people are notified via email), I would be ecstatic.<br>
<br>I think that the solution is to remove these lists and any mentions to them, contacting people on a case-by-case basis. In the future the creation of these lists should be discouraged.<br><br>
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