View source for Help:Sign your posts on talk pages

When adding information to discussion pages, it is common practice to "sign" your entry so that others easily know who posted the comment or thought.   Signing your entry is very easy.  At the end of the last line, add four tildes, <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>.  When you save the page, the four tildes will be turned into a date and time stamp with a link to your user page.   

It is also common practice to indent each subsequent response.  Indents are created with a colons. One colon at the beginning of the line will indent the line five spaces. Two colons, 10 spaces, etc.  

==Templates==
* There is an {{tl|unsigned}} template that can be added to the end of any discussion post that was not signed.  An example of its use is shown below.

==Example Discussion Thread ==
===As you'd see it in the edit window===
Hi, I think this page should be merged with XYZ because they largely contain the same information.  <nowiki>[[User:Tom|Tom]]</nowiki> 19:17, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
:I disagree with this view.  The two pages, while seemingly similar, serve different purposes <nowiki>{{unsigned|Gloria}}</nowiki>
::Couldn't we just have separate sections on a single page that capture the slightly different uses?  <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>

===As you'd see it in display mode===
Hi, I think this page should be merged with XYZ because they largely contain the same information.  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 19:17, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
:I disagree with this view.  The two pages, while seemingly similar, serve different purposes {{unsigned|Gloria}}
::Couldn't we just have separate sections on a single page that capture the slightly different uses?  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 19:19, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
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