Recently, I've been uploading and adding a lot of signatures to articles, especially musicians. Usually, this is an easy copy-paste task of "| signature = etc.", but for many musical artists that don't use "infobox person", the task becomes slightly longer as I would have to add a module for the infobox person into "infobox musical artist". While this is mostly a QoL change, I also think it would help declutter the infobox and make it neater when viewing. Lastly, if this change is implemented, it would be preferred that the signature would appear on the article on the bottom of the infobox instead of how it might be in "infobox YouTube personality", where I feel it makes the infobox more visually cluttered. Thank you for your time. - dwarfroe (talk / contr) 08:16, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
As someone who sees adding signatures to biographies as an undue trivial inclusion, a waste of space, and a distraction 99% of the time, I would rather do away with the paramater in most infoboxes, save perhaps from ones like Template:Infobox officeholder or Template:Infobox artist where the person's job would involve signing official documents often and the signature may be recognisable or hold actual importance. I can see much more value for a logo parameter for musicians, not that I'm completely on board with that idea either since it would probably encourage people unfamiliar with Wikipedia's fair use policy to upload a ton of copyrighted logos.
I also feel that musicians' signatures, if included, would be better sourced from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or instances like Billboard's Open Letter on Gun Violence than from some signed merchandise or a letter to a fan, since the latter could be done swiftly and can vary massively in design (search "John Lennon signature" and see how inconsistent they are), and the former are already scanned or already SVGs so less original manipulation would be involved. Another gripe (sorry): please remove the empty space around the signature images. Miklogfeather (talk) 14:27, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Change the "Discography" parameter to "Works" to allow the inclusion of videography, list of live performances, etc. This change was brought up by User:GustavoCzahere and here, receiving consensus and approval from the user who suggested the original discography parameter. To keep current infoboxes in check, using 'discography =' in wikitext should also instate the Works field. Miklogfeather (talk) 14:56, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
