Help:Signatures


 * Parent: Help:Contents

As an editor, it's always courteous to sign messages on any talk pages when leaving messages. There's a couple of different external help pages that may be helpful to learn more about this topic:


 * mw:Help:Signatures - the mediwiki.org "Help" page.
 * wikipedia:Help:Signatures - the en.wikipedia.org "Help" page.

See below for more about how " " (3 tildes) and " " (4 tildes) and " " (5 tildes) are expanded in wikitext

Tildes
When editing wikitext on talk pages (i.e. with "Edit source"), the following rules apply for tildes.


 * Three tildes in a row (i.e. " ") puts the editor's username
 * Four tildes in a row (i.e. " ") puts the editor's username and a timestamp (whatever the time is on the server when you save your changes)
 * Five tildes in a row (i.e. " ") puts only the timestamp.

See mw:Help:Signatures for more information about how tildes work with wikitext.