On Wikipedia, signatures are used to find out who wrote a comment on pages in the Talk:, User talk:, and Wikipedia talk: namespaces.
This page is a policy on the Simple English Wiki Simple English. Many people agree with it. They see it as a standard idea that all users should normally follow. When changing this page (except for minor errors like typos), please check that other people agree with your changes. Use the talk page when you are not sure or when you want to suggest a change. |
To sign a post, type four tildes, like this: ~~~~. For example, if User:Example writes a comment on a talk page, and they typed four tildes, this would show: Example 00:00 01 January 1000 (UTC). To type the username only, type 3 tildes: ~~~, and this would appear: Example. To type only the date, type five tildes: ~~~~~, and this will appear: 00:00 01 January 1000 (UTC). This is to know who wrote the comments, sort of like the bar on the left containing an avatar on forums, without looking at the page history. If you do not sign your edits will be signed by Cewbot
A registered user can customize their signature, (making it specially theirs) to make it have different colors, font sizes, or font. To do this:
Example:
[[User:Example|Example]] - [[User talk:Example|TALK]]
and you will get: Example - TALK
Your signature should not blink, or otherwise inconvenience or be annoying to other editors.
tags (which produce big text), or line breaks (
tags) should not be used because they can change the way that other text is displayed.Images of any kind may not be used in signatures for the following reasons:
Keep signatures short, both in display and markup.
Extremely long signatures with a lot of HTML/wiki markup make page changing and discussion more difficult for the following reasons:
The software will automatically shorten both plain and raw signatures to 255 characters (characters used for HTML/wiki markup are included!).
It is common practice to include a link to your user page or user talk page (often both); the default signature links to the user page. At least one of those two pages must be linked from your signature, to allow other editors to find your talk page and changes log easily.
It is better to put information on your user page, rather than in your signature. However, including short additional internal links is generally allowed when used to help with communication or to provide general information. It is not allowed if seen as canvassing for some purpose.
Do not include links to external websites in your signature. Posting many links to one website is strongly discouraged on Wiki Simple English. This may be seen as spamming.
Transclusions of templates and parser functions in signatures are forbidden. Signature templates are vandalism targets, and will be forever, even if the user leaves the project.
Simple text signatures, which are stored along with the page content and use no more resources than the comments themselves, avoid these problems.
Signatures must not have categories inside them. Categorizing talk pages by who has changed them is unhelpful, and the same information can be found by using your changes list.
Users with non-Latin usernames are welcome to edit on Wiki Simple English. However, non-Latin scripts (such as Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Indic scripts, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and others) cannot be read by most other contributors of the Simple English Wiki Simple English. As a courtesy to the rest of the contributors, users with such usernames should sign their posts (at least in part) with Latin characters. Such users may wish to register alternative user accounts (using for example the translation or the transliteration of their username) and place redirects in the user pages of those accounts to their true, non-Latin user page, include information about such redirects on the true user page, and sign their posts (at least in part) with a Latin name.
For example, see en:User:Παράδειγμα who is redirected from en:User:Paradigma and signs as Παράδειγμα/Paradigma.
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