User blog:Penguin-Pal/Template Signatures

Hi everyone,

I've just read [ this notice] in the Community Corner. It makes sence, as many of you use templates for storing your signature. and some of those signatures templates have a very short name, or a name that might be needed for a guture template.

If you still want to have a signature as a template, add a sub page for this template. It can be done by going to, in the most quick way, by going to Special:MyPage/sign, and add your signature content there.

If you already have a signature in a template, you can rename it by going the down arrow in the edit navigation bar, select Move, and rename your template (make sure to change the nasmespace to User).

Whenever you want to sign, add (replace USERNAME by your user name): For posting the entire content of your template, add insteade: But if you're using a signature based on classes and ids, or any other wiki code (like this one), i highly recommend not doing this. This is as classes and ids are sometimes changed, and if you do use signature with them that uses, at some point in the future, your signature would just be stuck in many pages, messing up the content. You may have noticed many old pages of users, like Ratonbat, that have a line saying "You need to leave me new messages (last change)" that lead to a prank page. This may not look like a good prank at all, but a few years ago, wikia had styling for the class usermessage, on which those messages work (with background and border and everything). Now it's just a plain text, so if you do choose to use templates based on this, please keep that in your mind.

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  05:27, February 22, 2013 (UTC)