Forum:Signatures

Recently, there has been quite a revolution of custom signatures and such. Currently, the methods used on other wikis are not used as often to make a custom signature.

Most of the signatures used are in templates on talk pages, showing as, , or. This does conserve space, granted, but the templates are linked at the bottom of the page when the action is "edit."

What is customary for custom signatures (yuk yuk) is this:
 * 1) Create a subpage to your userpage, such as User:(username)/sig
 * 2) Write the desired signature on this page
 * 3) Go to your Preferences and write in the "Nickname" text box. (The "SUBST:" part will be filled in automatically)
 * 4) Enable "raw signatures" by checking the box next to it.
 * 5) Save preferences.
 * 6) Type your signature with three tildes on voting pages, and four in conventional talk pages and forums.

Seeing that templates are not commonly browsed on this wiki, and users here are very posessive of most of the pages they create, not just their userpage, the original templates may be used for signatures. But instead of typing the template name, at the very least "subst:" or "SUBST:" should be added preceeding the template name in the double braces. That is not as easy to acclimatize to, so it is strongly recommended that eveyone write the template name in their preferences.

Thank you for your time. --C3PO the Dragon Slayer 6,000,000 forms of communication 23:17, 22 October 2006 (UTC)