Wikipedia:Signatures
- See also: Wikipedia:Username#Non-Latin
Users with non-Latin usernames are welcome to edit in Wikipedia. However, non-Latin scripts (such as Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Indic scripts, Japanese, Korean, Thai and others) are illegible to most other contributors of the English Wikipedia. As a courtesy to the rest of the contributors, users with such usernames are encouraged to sign their posts (at least in part) with Latin characters.
For example, see User:Παράδειγμα who signs as Παράδειγμα/Paradigma.
A signature consisting of or ending with characters from a right-to-left script will appear as “--DD ,HH:MM (NAME) Month YYYY” when viewing pages, and as “--[[User:Example|DD ,HH:MM [[(NAME) Month YYYY” in the edit box. Adding a left-to-right marker symbol at the end of the sig (code: ‎ only works with raw sigs) will resolve this. Or, if you include both Latin and a right-to-left (Hebrew, Arabic) script in your signature, consider putting Latin second, where it will be directly next to the timestamp.
Dealing with unsigned comments
The templates {{unsigned}} and {{unsignedIP}} can be used at the end of an unsigned comment to attach the username or IP to the comment. None of these templates automatically populate (fill in) the name or IP of the poster and the time of the post. That information is best copied from the history page and pasted into the following templates. Note: All of the unsigned templates must be substituted.
| Wikimarkup | Resulting code | Resulting display |
|---|---|---|
| {{subst:unsigned|user name or IP}} | {{subst:unsigned|Example}} | —Preceding unsigned comment added by Example (talk • contribs) |
| {{subst:unsigned|user name or IP|date}} | {{subst:unsigned|Example|23:59, 1 April, 2006 (UTC)}} | —Preceding unsigned comment added by Example (talk • contribs) 23:59, 1 April, 2006 (UTC) |
| {{subst:unsignedIP|IP address}} | {{subst:unsignedIP|127.0.0.1}} | —Preceding unsigned comment added by 127.0.0.1 (talk) |
| {{subst:unsignedIP|IP address|date}} | {{subst:unsignedIP|127.0.0.1|23:59, 1 April, 2006 (UTC)}} | —Preceding unsigned comment added by 127.0.0.1 (talk) 23:59, 1 April, 2006 (UTC) |
The templates {{unsigned2}} and {{unsignedIP2}} do almost the same as {{unsigned}} and {{unsignedIP}} when used with two parameters, but the ordering of the parameters is reversed. This is useful for copying and pasting from the edit history, where the timestamp appears before the username. {{unsigned2}} and {{unsignedIP2}} also automatically add "(UTC)" at the end.
| Wikimarkup | Resulting code | Resulting display |
|---|---|---|
| {{subst:unsigned2|date|user name or ip}} | {{subst:unsigned2|23:59, 1 April, 2006|Example}} | —Preceding unsigned comment added by Example (talk • contribs) 23:59, 1 April, 2006 |
| {{subst:unsignedIP2|date|user name or ip}} | {{subst:unsignedIP2|23:59, 1 April, 2006|127.0.0.1}} | —Preceding unsigned comment added by 127.0.0.1 (talk) 23:59, 1 April, 2006 |
It is also a good idea to notify users, especially new users, that they should sign their comments. You may use the template {{tilde}} on the user's talk page or one of the welcome messages for new users.
More about talk pages
See Wikipedia:Talk page for accepted conventions and guidelines regarding the use of talk pages.
Notes
- ^ If the browser's settings don't allow JavaScript, the icons appear only if the settings are changed. If the browser is set not to show pictures the icon can be found on "Your signature with timestamp".
See also
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