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When posting in the [[ | When posting in the [[Help:Talk pages|talk pages]], you must '''sign your posts'''. This helps other readers identify who posted what and organise a mass of comments into an easy to read conversation. Posting signatures will also help other users to identify the author of a comment, to navigate to their talk pages. In addition, signatures contain a '''time stamp''' which records when a comment was made as well. | ||
While it is important to sign your comments on the talk pages, and some project pages, signatures should '''never''' go in the mainspace. No matter what content you add, you may never [[GS:DSA|sign it]], since the wiki is a collaborative effort, and the articles and files belong to every one of the contributors. Credit is given to each contributor in the page history, which lists every revision ever made to a page. | While it is important to sign your comments on the talk pages, and some project pages, signatures should '''never''' go in the mainspace. No matter what content you add, you may never [[GS:DSA|sign it]], since the wiki is a collaborative effort, and the articles and files belong to every one of the contributors. Credit is given to each contributor in the page history, which lists every revision ever made to a page. | ||
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===Having others create your signature for you=== | ===Having others create your signature for you=== | ||
Users who do not wish to create their own signatures can request experienced users to create one for them on the | Users who do not wish to create their own signatures can request experienced users to create one for them on the <code>#Wiki</code> discord channel. | ||
===Setting up your signature=== | ===Setting up your signature=== | ||
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<br />Once the template page is set up, go to your [[Special:Preferences|preferences]], enable "I want to use wikitext in my signature" and paste the following into the "Custom signature" field: | <br />Once the template page is set up, go to your [[Special:Preferences|preferences]], enable "I want to use wikitext in my signature" and paste the following into the "Custom signature" field: | ||
*If using <code><nowiki>Template:Signatures/</nowiki>{{USERNAME}}</code> | *If using <code><nowiki>Template:Signatures/</nowiki>{{USERNAME}}</code> | ||
*: <code><nowiki>{{Signatures/</nowiki>{{USERNAME}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> | *: <code><nowiki>{{SUBST:Nosubst|Signatures/</nowiki>{{USERNAME}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> | ||
*If using <code>User:{{USERNAME}}/Signature</code> | *If using <code>User:{{USERNAME}}/Signature</code> | ||
*: <code><nowiki>{{User:</nowiki>{{USERNAME}}<nowiki>/Signature}}</nowiki></code> | *: <code><nowiki>{{SUBST:Nosubst|User:</nowiki>{{USERNAME}}<nowiki>/Signature}}</nowiki></code> | ||
===Multiple signatures=== | ===Multiple signatures=== | ||