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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.
  
Three tildes <nowiki>~~~</nowiki> will be converted into a User-name link like [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]  
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Three tildes <nowiki>~~~</nowiki> will be converted into a User-name link like [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
  
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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[[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