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The Signpost
, see
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This page documents an English Wikipedia
behavioral guideline
It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with
common sense
, and
occasional exceptions
may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect
consensus
. When in doubt, discuss first on the
talk page
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This page in a nutshell:
Please sign your posts on talk pages, using
~~~~
. Keep the coding of your signature short, do not make the signature too large and ensure that the end result is easily readable by virtually everybody.
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Signing your posts
on
talk pages
, both in the article and non-article
namespaces
, is a
good practice
, and facilitates discussion by helping identify the author of a particular comment. Other users can then navigate to a talk page and address their comments to the specific, relevant user(s). Discussion is an important part of collaborative editing, because it helps all users to understand the progress and evolution of a work.
Signature use that is intentionally and persistently disruptive may lead to blocking under the
disruptive editing policy
When
editing a page
main namespace
articles
should not
be signed, because the article is a shared work, based on the contributions of many people, and one editor should not be singled out above others.
Purpose of signatures
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Signatures on Wikipedia identify you as a user and your contributions to Wikipedia. They encourage
civility in discussions
by identifying the author of a particular comment and the date and time at which it was made. Because of that, having an uncivil signature is strongly discouraged (in some cases, to the point of blocking the user until it is changed). In general anything that is not allowed in a
user name
should not be used in a signature either.
When signatures should and should not be used
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Any posts made to the user talk pages, article talk pages and any other discussion pages
must be
signed. Edits to articles
must not
be signed, as signatures on Wikipedia are not intended to indicate ownership or authorship of any article. Rather, the
page history
takes care of the need to identify edits with users. Therefore, signatures
should not
be used in edit summaries, as they do not translate from
~~~~
. In other instances, when posts
should not
be signed, specific instructions are provided to contributors.
How to sign your posts
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Shortcuts
WP:SIGHOW
WP:SIGHOW
WP:TILDE
Preferred option
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Using four tildes
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
There are two ways to sign your posts:
At the end of your comments simply type four
tildes
(~), like this:
~~~~
If you are using the
edit toolbar
option (it usually appears above the edit screen as a default),
click the signature icon:
or
, to add the four tildes.
Your signature will appear after you have saved the changes. The end result is the same in both cases.
Typing four tildes will result in the following:
Wikimarkup
Resulting code
Resulting display
~~~~
[[User:Example|Example]] ([[User talk:Example|talk]])
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
Example
talk
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
Since typing four tildes adds the time and date to your resulting signature, this is the preferred option for signing your posts in discussions.
Note that if you choose to
contribute without logging in
, regardless of whether you have
an account
, you should still sign your posts. In this case your
IP address
will take the place of your username, and will link to your contributions history. Your IP address might look something like this:
192.58.23.4
If you are for some reason not getting the above results when signing, see the
SineBot Frequently Asked Questions
for tips.
Other options
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Using three tildes
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Typing three tildes results in the following:
Wikimarkup
Resulting code
Resulting display
~~~
[[User:Example|Example]] ([[User talk:Example|talk]])
Example
talk
However, since this does not date-stamp your signature, you may wish to sign this way only when leaving general notices on your user page or user talk page. This is also a convenient shortcut (rather than typing out the full code) when you want to provide a link to your user page.
Using five tildes
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Typing five tildes will convert to a date stamp with the current date and time, without adding your signature, like this:
Wikimarkup
Resulting code
Resulting display
~~~~~
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
In general, when communicating with others, you should use one of the previous options, and not only a timestamp.
Customizing your signature
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
Shortcut
WP:CUSTOMSIG
Screenshot of the
Special:Preferences
page, containing the section
Raw Signature
Every editor's default signature (defined by
MediaWiki:Signature
) will display when
~~~~
is typed. This looks like:
Example
talk
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
Unregistered users who sign manually with a pseudonym or tag such as
--anon.
or
192.58*
, still have their IP address stored in the page history. If you choose to sign in that way, to make it easier for other users to communicate with you, you should still type four tildes:
--192.58*
~~~~
Registered users can customize their signatures by going to
Special:Preferences
and changing the field "Signature". If you do not check the "Treat the above as wiki markup" box, your signature will be treated as a nickname and displayed like:
NICKNAME
talk
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
If you check the "Treat the above as wiki markup" box, you may enter wikitext for your signature. However, you should consider the guidelines below.
When customizing your signature, please keep the following in mind:
A distracting, confusing, or otherwise unsuitable signature may adversely affect other users. For example, some editors find that long formatting disrupts discourse on talk pages, or makes working in the edit window more difficult. Complicated signatures contain a lot of code ("
markup
") that is revealed in the edit window, and can take up unnecessary amounts of narrative space, which can make both reading and editing harder.
Signature forgery
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
Policy
shortcuts
WP:SIGEDITORIMPERSONATE
WP:Signature forgery
Never use another editor's signature
. Impersonating another editor by using his or her username or signature is forbidden. Altering the markup code of your signature to make it look substantially like another user's signature may also be considered a form of impersonation. Editing the code of your signature to link it to another editor's userpage is not permitted. While not an absolute requirement, it is common practice for a signature to resemble to some degree the user name it represents.
If you encounter a user whose signature is disruptive or appears to be impersonating another account, it is appropriate to ask that user to consider changing their signature to meet the requirements of this guideline. When making such a request, always be polite, and
assume good faith
. Do not immediately assume that the user has intentionally selected a disruptive or inappropriate signature. If
you
are asked to change your signature, please avoid interpreting a polite request as an attack. Since the success of Wikipedia is based on effective teamwork, both parties should work together to find a mutually acceptable solution.
Signature formatting has been the subject of
Requests for Comment
, and has also resulted in some very heated debates. In one case a user who refused to alter an unsuitable signature was ultimately
required to change it
by the Arbitration Committee. This is an extreme measure for users who refuse to cooperate with reasonable requests, and should be considered a last resort. When dealing with potentially problematic signatures, simply being
polite
is often sufficient and can prevent the situation from escalating into a
dispute
Appearance and color
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
Your signature should not blink, scroll, or otherwise inconvenience or annoy other editors.
Avoid markup such as
big
and

(or more)
tags (which produce
big
text), or line breaks (
br /
tags), since they disrupt the way that surrounding text displays. The limited use of
non-breaking spaces
to ensure that the signature displays on one line is allowed.
Be sparing with
superscript or subscript
. In some cases, this type of script can also affect the way that surrounding text is displayed.
Do not make your signature so small that it is difficult to read.
As some users have vision problems, be sparing with color. If you must use different colors in your signature, please ensure that the result will be readable by people with
color blindness
, defective color vision, and other visual disabilities.
Do not include horizontal rules (
----
).
To display your signature in a different color for yourself only, add the following to
Special:MyPage/common.css
, replacing YOUR_NAME with your username:
#bodyContent a[title="User:YOUR_NAME"] { background-color: #ff7700; color: #ffffff; }
For guidance on how to use color to customize the appearance of your signature, see
this Tutorial
Images
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Must not be used
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
See also:
bugzilla:6379
Images of any kind must not be used in signatures for the following reasons:
they are an unnecessary drain on server resources, and could cause server slowdown
a new image can be uploaded in place of the one you chose, making your signature a target for possible vandalism and
Denial-of-service attacks
they make pages more difficult to read and scan
they make it more difficult to copy text from a page
they are potentially distracting from the actual content
images do not scale with the text, making the lines with images higher than those without them
they clutter up the "file links" list on the respective image's page every time one signs on a different talk page
images in signatures give undue prominence to a given user's contribution
Length
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
Keep signatures short, both in display and in markup.
Extremely long signatures with a lot of HTML/wiki markup make page editing and discussion more difficult for the following reasons:
signatures that take up more than two or three lines in the edit window clutter the page and make it harder to distinguish posts from signatures;
long signatures give undue prominence to a given user's contribution;
signatures which have long HTML/wiki markup and contain no spaces cause other editors' edit boxes to show unnecessary horizontal
scrollbars
(such signatures may have spaces added to them by any editor);
signatures that occupy more space than necessary in the edit box displace meaningful comments, thus forcing the editor to scroll when writing their reply, and
the presence of such long signatures in the discussion also disrupts the reading of comments when an editor is formulating her or his reply.
The software will automatically truncate both plain and raw signatures to 255 characters of
code
in the signature box. If
substitution
of templates or another page is used, please be careful to verify that you are not violating the length limit, as the software will not do this automatically.
Links
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
Shortcut
WP:SIGLINK
Internal links
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Signatures must include at least one internal link to your
user page
, user talk page, or contributions page; this allows other editors easy access to your talk page and contributions log. The lack of such a link is widely viewed as obstructive.
If, while making modifications, you accidentally disable this link, see
Wikipedia:How to fix your signature
. When you insert your signature on your talk page or user page, a link to that page will appear black, bold and inactive, so test your signature elsewhere, such as the
Sandbox
Disruptive links
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It is better to put information on your user page rather than in your signature. Brief additional internal links are generally tolerated when used to facilitate communication or to provide general information, but undesirable if seen as
canvassing
for some purpose.
Do not place any disruptive internal links, such as
SIGN HERE!!!
, which refers to an autograph page.
External links
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
Shortcut
WP:SIG#EL
WP:SIG#EL
Do not include links to external websites in your signature.
Mass posting of links to a particular website is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia. Posting a link to an external website with each comment you make on a talk page could be taken as link spamming, or an attempt to improve your website's ranking on search engines (which doesn't actually work in the first place). If you want to tell other Wikipedians about a website with which you are associated, you can do so on your user page.
Transclusion of templates
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
Shortcuts
WP:SIG#NoTemplates
WP:SIG#NoTemplates
WP:SIG#NT
WP:SIG#NT
Transclusions
of
templates
and
parser functions
in signatures (like those which appear as
{{User:Name/sig}}
, for example) are forbidden. There are several reasons for this.
Signature templates are vandalism targets, and will be forever, even if the user leaves the project.
Certain automated scripts (bots) are used to automatically archive particularly active talk pages. These bots read the source of the talk page, but don't transclude templates, and so don't recognize the template as a signature.
Signature templates are a small but unnecessary drain on the servers. Transcluded signatures require extra processing—whenever you change your signature source, all talk pages you have posted on must be
re-cached
Substitution
of templates in signatures is permissible but highly discouraged, as any such template will typically either violate the
reasonable length restriction of 255 characters
or will be redundant to using the same content as a
raw signature
Simple text signatures, which are stored along with the page content and use no more resources than the comments themselves, avoid these problems.
Categories
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
Shortcut
WP:SIG#NoCAT
WP:SIG#NoCAT
Signatures must not contain
categories
. Categorizing talk pages by who has edited them is unhelpful, and the same information can be found by using
your contributions list
. Many of the various
edit counting utilities
also provide this data.
Non-Latin usernames
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
See also:
Wikipedia:Username policy §
Non-English usernames
Shortcuts
WP:SIG#NL
WP:SIG#NL
WP:SIG#Non-Latin
WP:SIG#Non-Latin
Editors with non-
Latin
usernames are welcome to edit in Wikipedia. However, non-Latin scripts, such as Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Indic scripts, Japanese, Korean, Thai and others,
are illegible to most other contributors of the English Wikipedia. As a courtesy to the rest of the contributors, users with such usernames are encouraged to sign their posts (at least in part) with Latin characters. For an example refer to
User:Παράδειγμα
, who signs his posts as
Παράδειγμα/Paradigma
A signature, consisting of or ending with characters from a right-to-left script, will appear when viewing pages as
--DD ,HH:MM (NAME) Month YYYY
and in the edit box as
--[[User:Example|DD ,HH:MM (NAME) Month YYYY]]
. Adding a
left-to-right marker symbol
, at the end of the raw signature (HTML code:
lrm;
), will resolve this. Or, if you include both Latin and a right-to-left script, such as Hebrew or Arabic, in your signature, consider putting Latin second, where it will be directly next to the timestamp.
Dealing with unsigned comments
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
"WP:UNSIGNED" redirects here. For the actual template, see
Template:Unsigned
Shortcut
WP:UNSIGNED
The templates
unsigned
and
unsignedIP
can be used at the end of an unsigned comment to attach the username or IP to the comment. None of these templates automatically populate (fill in) the name or IP of the poster and the time of the post. That information is best copied from the history page and pasted into the following templates.
Note
: All of the unsigned templates must be
substituted
Wikimarkup
Resulting code
Resulting display
{{subst:unsigned|
user name or IP
}}
{{subst:unsigned|Example}}
—Preceding
unsigned
comment added by
Example
talk
contribs
{{subst:unsigned|
user name or IP
date
}}
{{subst:unsigned|Example|
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
}}
—Preceding
unsigned
comment added by
Example
talk
contribs
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
{{subst:unsignedIP|
IP address
}}
{{subst:unsignedIP|127.0.0.1}}
—Preceding
unsigned
comment added by
127.0.0.1
talk
{{subst:unsignedIP|
IP address
date
}}
{{subst:unsignedIP|127.0.0.1|
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
}}
—Preceding
unsigned
comment added by
127.0.0.1
talk
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
The templates
unsigned2
and
unsignedIP2
do almost the same as
unsigned
and
unsignedIP
when used with two parameters, but the ordering of the parameters is reversed. The resulting display is the same. These templates may be useful when copying and pasting from the edit history, where the timestamp appears before the username.
Wikimarkup
Resulting code
Resulting display
{{subst:unsigned2|
date
user name or ip
}}
{{subst:unsigned2|
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
|Example}}
—Preceding
unsigned
comment added by
Example
talk
contribs
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
{{subst:unsignedIP2|
date
IP address
}}
{{subst:unsignedIP2|
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
|127.0.0.1}}
—Preceding
unsigned
comment added by
127.0.0.1
talk
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
It is also a good idea to notify users, especially new users, that they should sign their comments. You may use the template
uw-tilde
on the user's talk page or one of the
welcome messages
for new users.
Also, the template
undated
can be used at the end of comments where the user gave his or her username but no timestamp:
Wikimarkup
Resulting code
Resulting display
{{subst:undated|
date
}}
{{subst:undated|
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC)
}}
—Preceding
undated
comment was added on
୦୭:୪୩
୨୪
ଅପ୍ରେଲ
୨୦୨୬
(UTC).
Dealing with signatures behaviour issues
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Wikipedia's
Username policy
describes accepted practices and behavior in naming and operating a user account on Wikipedia that apply to both usernames and signatures. A purpose of your signature is to identify you as a contributor. If your signature is unnecessarily confusing, editors may request that you change it. An editor with a confusing signature may be blocked sooner than usual for other inappropriate behavior such as disruption or vandalism, if their confusing signature contributes to the disruption.
Signatures which include no reference to the user's username (for example by signing with a nickname, as in
[[User:Example|User:Nickname]]
are strongly discouraged, as it can be confusing for editors (particularly newcomers). The actual username always appears in the page history, so using just the nickname on the relevant talk page can make it appear to be a different person. If necessary it is possible to
change your username
; otherwise, ensure you include your user account name, eg in the form
[[User:Example|User:Example]]/Nickname
See also
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Help:Editing shortcuts
Template:Uw-tilde
Note for talk page for user to sign comments
Notes and references
ସମ୍ପାଦନା
If the browser's settings don't allow JavaScript, the icons appear only if the settings are changed. If the browser is set not to show pictures, the icon can be found on "Your signature with timestamp"
The
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
recommend a
contrast ratio
of at least 5:1 for text
– use this
Contrast ratio calculator
to help determine if the colors you choose will be visible to everyone. Wikipedia's background colour (on the default vector
skin
) is light blue (#F8FCFF).
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