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* If [[Help:Account|logged in]] you can leave verifyable signatures on discussion pages:
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Everyone who is logged in can leave a signature - useful to sign a contribution, a personal remark on someones user-page, a statement on a discussion page, and most of all useful if one wants to leave ones name on a list of participants.
:* write <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>
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:* when you press "save page" the four signs will be automatically converted into your signature (it will include a link to your user page plus time and date).
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==What is this good for?==
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To create such a signature like
The signature is a way to connect your statement with your account. You can check the authenticity of any such signature in a check of the page "history" entries - which are themselves linked to your edits including your signature edits.
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--[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:56, 11 May 2007 (CEST)
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you write four tildes: <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. As soon as you press "save page" these signs will be converted into a link to your user page with a note of time and date.
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You can check the authenticity of any such signature with a check of the respective "page history" on which all edits (also the one which created the questionable signature) are connected with the accounts who produced these edits.

Revision as of 11:56, 11 May 2007

Everyone who is logged in can leave a signature - useful to sign a contribution, a personal remark on someones user-page, a statement on a discussion page, and most of all useful if one wants to leave ones name on a list of participants.

To create such a signature like

--Olaf Simons 11:56, 11 May 2007 (CEST)

you write four tildes: ~~~~. As soon as you press "save page" these signs will be converted into a link to your user page with a note of time and date.

You can check the authenticity of any such signature with a check of the respective "page history" on which all edits (also the one which created the questionable signature) are connected with the accounts who produced these edits.