RuneScape Clans Wiki:Signature

When posting on the forum, or talk pages, you can use your signature to show other users who said what.. For help on how to sign your posts, read on.

Signing your posts on talk pages and on the forum help to identify who posted what. Posting signatures help other users to identify the author of a comment, to navigate talk pages, and so on. Discussion is important in wikis as it helps other users to understand the progress that's going on.

Why use signatures?
Signatures on the RuneScape Clans Wiki identify you as a user, and your contributions to the wiki. They help identify the author of a comment as well as the date and time at which it was made.

When signatures should be used
Any post made to user talk pages, article talk pages, on the forum, or other discussion pages should be signed.

When signatures shouldn't be used
Edits to articles should not be signed, as nobody owns articles. Signatures also don't need to be used in the edit summary as the history of the page shows who added what.

How to sign your posts
There are two ways to sign your posts:


 * 1) At the end of your comments, simply type four tildes (~), like this: ~.
 * 2) The edit toolbar above the editing window has a button ([[Image:Button sig.PNG|The signature button]]) that adds the four tildes for you.

Your signature will appear after you have saved your edit.

Different signature forms
Typing four tildes results in the following:

Since typing four tildes adds the time and date to your resulting signature, this is the preferred option for signing your posts in discussions.

Typing three tildes results in the following:

Since this does not date-stamp your signature, feel free to sign this way when leaving general notices on your user page or user talk page. This is also a convenient shortcut (rather than typing out SampleUser ) when you want to provide a link to your user page.

Typing five tildes results in the following:

Customizing your signature
Registered users can customize their signature by going to Special:Preferences and changing the field "Signature". If you want to know how to customize your signature, see Help:Customizing your signature. Your signature should contain a link to your userpage. Also, no more than two pictures per signature are allowed.

Want a signature?
Ask any active member on here to ask them to help you with your signature!

Large signatures
If you have a large signature with lots of code, you may want it to become a template so that other users won't see all the markup (code).

Dealing with unsigned comments
If you see an unsigned comment, feel free to use the template. The table below shows how to use this template.

You may also want to remind users to sign their posts if they aren't, or if they don't know how, direct them to this page.