EverQuest 2 Wiki:Sign your posts on talk pages

              == Customizing your signature ==

Registered users can customize their signature by going to [[Special:Preferences]] and changing the field "Signature". 

===Appearance and color===

'''Your signature should not blink, or otherwise inconvenience or be annoying to other editors.'''

* Markup such as <code><big></code> tags (which produce <big>big</big> text), or line breaks (<code><br /></code> tags) are to be avoided, since they disrupt the way that surrounding text displays
* Be sparing with superscript or subscript.  In some cases, this type of script can also affect the way that surrounding text is displayed
* Avoid making your signature so small that it is difficult to read

=== RAW Signature ===
If you put a check in the box for '''Raw signature''' on your [[Special:Preferences]] page you can further customize your signature with special links. For RAW mode you need to use Wiki markup, including links. Some examples are below:
{| class="prettytable" cellpadding="5" border="1"
! What you type for your NAME !! Resulting display
|-
|<center><code><nowiki>[[User:Example|Example]]</nowiki></code></center>
|[[User:Example|Example]]
|}
<br>
{| class="prettytable" cellpadding="5" border="1"
! What you type for your DISCUSSION page !! Resulting display
|-
|<center><code><nowiki>[[User_talk:Example|talk]]</nowiki></code></center>
|[[User_talk:Example|talk]]
|}
<br>
{| class="prettytable" cellpadding="5" border="1"
! What you type for your CONTRIBUTIONS page !! Resulting display
|-
|<center><code><nowiki>[[Special:Contributions/Example|contribs]]</nowiki></code></center>
|[[Special:Contributions/Example|contribs]]
|}<br>
By using the three examples above for your signature, plus formatting:<br>
 <code><nowiki> [[User:Example|Example]]</nowiki></code> '''('''<code><nowiki>[[User_talk:Example|talk]]</nowiki></code>'''/'''<code><nowiki>[[Special:Contributions/Example|contribs]]</nowiki></code>''')'''
you will end up with a signature that looks something like this:<br>
 -- [[User:Example|Example]] ([[User_talk:Example|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Example|contribs]]) 01:19, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

=== Length ===

'''Keep signatures short, both in display and markup.'''

Long signatures with a lot of HTML/wiki markup make page editing more difficult.  A 200 character signature, for instance, is likely to be larger than many of the comments to which it is appended, making discussion more difficult: 

* signatures that take up more than two or three lines in the edit window clutter the page and make it harder to distinguish posts from signatures,
* long signatures give undue prominence to a given user's contribution,
* signatures which have excessively long HTML/wiki markup and contain no spaces can cause a later editor's edit box to show an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar