Editing Help:Signatures (section)

== How to sign ==
There are two ways to sign comments:

# At the end of the comment, type four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>).
# Use [[File:Wiki editor button signature.png|link=]] on the edit toolbar, which automatically inserts the above.

The signature will appear when the page is previewed and saved. The four tildes will result in the following:

{| class="wikitable"
! width=75px | Code
! width=550px | Resulting code after saving
! width=325px | Resulting display
|-
| align=center | <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>
| <code><nowiki>[[User:Example|Example]]</nowiki> {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, (UTC)</code>
| [[User:Example|Example]] {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}}  {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, (UTC)
|}

=== Variants ===
When necessary, changing the number of tildes results in a different output:

{| class="wikitable"
! width=75px | Code
! width=550px | Resulting code after saving
! width=325px | Resulting display
|-
| align=center | <code><nowiki>~~~</nowiki></code>
| <code><nowiki>[[User:Example|Example]]</nowiki></code>
| [[User:Example|Example]]
|-
| align=center | <code><nowiki>~~~~~</nowiki></code>
| <code>{{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}}  {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, (UTC)</code>
| {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}}  {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, (UTC)
|}

=== Dealing with unsigned comments ===
If you see an unsigned talk page comment, please sign it with the {{tl|unsigned}} template to show the author and date of the comment. This template needs to be substituted with <code>subst:</code> to work properly.

{| class="wikitable"
! width=350px | Code
! width=275px | Example
! width=325px | Resulting display
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{subst:unsigned|</nowiki><''user name or ip''><nowiki>|</nowiki><''date''><nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
| <code><nowiki>{{subst:unsigned|Example|00:07, 29 June 2013‎}}</nowiki></code>
| <small><small>—''The preceding [[Help:Signatures|unsigned]] comment was added by'' [[User:Example|Example]] ([[User talk:Example|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Example|contribs]]) at 00:07, 29 June 2013 (UTC).</small></small>
|}

(You can copy the value for the date parameter from the comment page's history, but note that this template requires the time to be in UTC. If your profile specifies a different timezone for times, you will need to manually adjust the time from the history page to be in UTC.)