Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages

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Signing your posts on talk pages and other Wikipedia discourse (but not on articles) is not only good etiquette; it also facilitates discussion by helping other users to identify the author of a particular comment, to navigate talk pages, and to address specific comments to the relevant user(s), among other things. Discussion is an important part of collaborative editing as it helps other users to understand the progress and evolution of a work.

[edit] How does it work?

At the end of your comments, simply type four tildes (~), like this: ~~~~. The Mediawiki software automatically converts this as shown in the table below.

Wikimarkup Resulting code Resulting display
~~~~
[[User:Example|Example]] 12:43, December 23 2006 (UTC) Example 12:43, December 23 2006 (UTC)