Wikipedia:Signatures

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Shortcuts WP:SIGN WP:SIG

On Wikipedia, signatures are used to find out who wrote a comment on pages in the Talk:, User talk:, and Wikipedia talk: namespaces. To sign a post, type four tildes, like this: ~~~~. For example, if User:Example writes a comment on a talk page, and they typed four tildes, this would show: Example 00:00 01 January 1000 (UTC). To type the username only, type 3 tildes: ~~~, and this would appear: Example. To type only the date, type five tildes: ~~~~~, and this will appear: 00:00 01 January 1000 (UTC). This is to know who wrote the comments, sort of like the bar on the left containing an avatar on forums, without looking at the page history. If you do not sign your edits, it will maybe signed by Cewbot.