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Signature

Any chance you could make your signature more simple and less eye-jarring/distracting? — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 09:06, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Please communicate with me. Also please read through this: Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing_your_signature and change your signature accordingly. I think the "The editor who likes cosplay" line is distracting and unnecessary, the yellow color is too bright to see (at least for me and there's nothing particularly special about my screen or eyesight) and the rest of it is too confusing and distracting too. If you're unsure then please ask for third opinions from other people. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 17:50, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

@Jeraphine Gryphon: Testing signature... -- The editor who likes cosplay Pikachu (pika!) #2568 ( Please {{re}} ) @ 00:10, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

I can't really see it. It is bright yellow on white. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:52, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

@Anna Frodesiak: Testing... -- The editor who likes cosplay Pikachu (pika!) #2568 ( Please {{re}} ) @ 10:40, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Worse. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:51, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

@Anna Frodesiak and Jeraphine Gryphon: Test -- Pikachu (pika!) #2568 @ 14:40, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Slightly better. You might like this. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:43, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

It's shorter now, that's better. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 15:16, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

@Jeraphine Gryphon and Anna Frodesiak: I think this signature should be more interesting.
— Pikachu ^pika!2568 @ 06:55, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

In my browser, that signature is unreadable. There is virtually no contrast between the background and the text. And you should consider making your signature less distracting in a talk thread, unless your goal is to be very irritating to other editors. ―Mandruss ☎ 08:26, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

@Mandruss: My signature is short already. ^{Please do not call me irritating}— Pikachu ^pika!2568 @ 10:36, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I didn't say anything about the length of your signature. It will be distracting in talk threads, which are for discussing things with other editors, not for showing off what a cool signature you made. The reason it will be distracting is because it is very bright. There are many experienced editors who have fought against the option to customize your signature because so many people create distracting signatures. Don't be one of them. Tone it down. That's my advice as someone just trying to help you, take it or leave it. Also, it's against the rules to alter the comments of other editors, as you have done by striking through part of my previous comment. Please fix that. ―Mandruss ☎ 10:51, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I have a suggestion, Pikachu2568. Don't worry to much about it. Pick something and move on. We need you back. There is work to be done. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:30, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

@Mandruss: Is this readable? — Pikachu ^pika!2568 @ 09:44, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it's readable. Is it a very good choice for a signature? In my opinion, no. I think a good signature stands out just enough that it can easily be found in a mass of text when someone is looking for it, but no more. The idea is not to distract the reader's eye when they are reading, or to make your comments stand out more than all the others. Note the first entry in the example signatures. It was my first attempt, which I changed after about a week because it stood out too much. While we're at it, some additional points.

• It's helpful to show your whole username, unbroken, so that others don't have to spend extra time figuring out what your username is if they need to know it.
• Some users link to their contributions page, but that page isn't needed much and it can be reached with just a little more effort anyway. In my opinion, including that link isn't worth the additional space in the wikitext.
• I've never seen anyone link to their sandbox in their signature.

As I said, these are just my opinions, largely a matter of personal taste, and a quick scan of the example signatures shows that many editors disagree with me. I offer my opinions only because you specifically asked what I thought (although I gave you more opinions than you asked for, I know). I would consider this a big improvement:
―Pikachu2568 ^pika!
―Mandruss ☎ 10:53, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Signature forgery

Hi Pikachu2568. Please do not sign edits made by other editors, like you have done here, here and here. If they have forgotten to sign, you should just let them be. I know you mean well, but t's not cool for you to forge signatures. Widr (talk) 14:42, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Per Wikipedia:Signatures#Dealing_with_unsigned_comments, you can use {{unsigned}} and {{unsigned IP}} templates, or their variants, to identify unsigned comments. I consider that quite "cool" and do it myself sometimes. However, you are using the templates incorrectly, failing to match the username exactly in one case and in another case it looks like no signature was necessary there. You also added a blocking template, normally an admin duty. For best results, I'd suggest avoiding anything having to do with admins, as they generally know what they are doing, and you might avoid unsigned templates until you have more experience. There are many other things you can do. ―Mandruss ☎ 14:51, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

@Mandruss: Correct, thanks. Obviously I haven't done all of my homework, having never come across those templates before. The third example was indeed a bit different thing, like you pointed out. Widr (talk) 15:43, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Yeahhh, if someone forgets to sign on a talk page, and when SineBot doesn't catch it, then it's always cool to use the unsigned template to sign it yourself, just be sure to get the correct username (by checking the page history). I do it all the time. It's important that talk page posts are signed. (I usually can't be bothered though to find the timestamp and then do the math to put it to UTC time, so I just sign it with their name. That's acceptable too, though timestamps may be important sometimes.) Casing is important though, you have to use the lowercase and UPPERCASE letters exactly as they are. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 16:06, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

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