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--[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:56, 11 May 2007 (CEST)
 
--[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:56, 11 May 2007 (CEST)
  
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 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. 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.
  
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.
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Three tildes <nowiki>~~~</nowiki> will be converted into a User-name link like [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
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[[Category:Help]]

Latest revision as of 16:20, 13 December 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.

Three tildes ~~~ will be converted into a User-name link like Olaf Simons