My Lego Network Wiki:Signature Policy

Policy

To identify oneself in a talk page, users are encouraged to sign their comments with ~~~~. It is a very simple process of going to Special:Preferences to change one's signature.

Signatures are purely wikimarkup, allowing the user to add extremely large images, line breaks, and other irritating and obtrusive content (some of which could be inappropriate.) It is important that users realize what they are doing to talk pages when they sign with such content.

You can use the templates EZsig, ‎‎EZsig2 and EZsig3 to skip coding.

Inserting any of the following types of content within signatures could lead to a block:

• Content that violates other MLNWiki policies.
• Images larger than 30 pixels in height.
• Line breaks or block elements.
• External non-Wikia links, with the exception of {{mlnlink}}.
• Elements with absolute or fixed positions.
• Elements with relative positions with extreme locations.
• Elements that cover up other parts of the page.
• Elements that expand the height of the line on which they appear.
• <blink>, <marquee>, and equivalent CSS or any other code displaying that element.
• Content that takes up any more than one line, unless there is no room for the signature to fit.
• Markup that categorizes pages.
• Unclosed HTML tags or other wiki markup.

Creating a signature

Below is the cleanest and preferred way of creating a signature.

1. Create your signature code and place it in User:(your username)/sig.
2. Go to Preferences and make sure the "custom signature" box is checked.
3. Type {{nosubst|User:(your username)/sig}} into the Signature box.
4. Press Save.
5. You can now edit User:(your username)/sig and it will be updated throughout the wiki for each change.

Signing

Many users are confused with the ~~~~ mark, believing that it is a decoration or a separator of some sort. It is not. In fact, all you need to type is ~~~~, and you do not type ~~~~Example or ~~~~Example~~~~.

Do

Code	Gives
--Example	--Example
{{Sig|Example}}	Example (talk | contribs)
~~~	Example
~~~~	Example 00:00, 1 January 1970 (UTC)
~~~~~	00:00, 1 January 1970 (UTC)

Do not

Code	Gives
~~~~Example~~~~	Example 00:00, 1 January 1970 (UTC)ExampleExample 00:00, 1 January 1970 (UTC)
~~~~Example	Example 00:00, 1 January 1970 (UTC)Example
Example~~~~	ExampleExample 00:00, 1 January 1970 (UTC)