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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.
Note that changing your signature will not change signatures that have already been produced, only ones that are created after save has been clicked. Also note that the basics to changing the background of signatures is included on the Wikipedia:Signatures page (though more in-depth instructions are soon to follow)
There is no consensus to reproduce signatures in Wikipedia articles, and there is some concern regarding reproducing the signatures of living persons. Some believe that signatures of living persons, in general, should only be displayed in articles when a person has published their own signature, and reliable secondary sources reproduce the ...
Signature of Benjamin Franklin. Signature of Empress Farah Pahlavi of Iran in Persian Handwriting.. The traditional function of a signature is to permanently affix to a document a person's uniquely personal, undeniable self-identification as physical evidence of that person's personal witness and certification of the content of all, or a specified part, of the document.
This signature would be required for use on all "official project" and vote pages. As discussed above, having a simple, uniform, signature on these pages will help streamline the process of editing on high signature count pages for a number of users, as well will give a more business-like atmosphere to the Project's administration.
Whether you include dashes, hyphens, or nothing at all before your signature doesn't really matter. If your username has "difficult" characters and you're simply adding helper text, that's fine. On the other hand, if you're needlessly inserting difficult characters into your user signature, you should really stop that.
Signatures are the text that appears before the timestamp when you put ~~~~ on a page. Signatures are customised using "my preferences" under "User profile"; consider these guidelines when customising your signature. You can use any wikitext as your signature (simply check the "Treat the above as wiki markup" box).
This is because Wiki markup (and HTML markup) are now escaped as HTML entities when placed in the default Signature field, e.g. [ instead of [. If you would like a signature that requires markup within the Signature field, please check the "Treat the above as wiki markup" option and enter the full signature string into the field.