Help:Custom signatures

This is an official WikiBound policy. In a nutshell: Make sure your signature is readable and use images sparingly. Make sure the signature identifies who you are Please follow any guidelines provided on this page.

Users can customize their signatures in their respective Special:Preferences page by filling in the "signature" field. Remember to make sure your signature reflects your username, to avoid confusion with other users.

To use a more advanced signature (for instance, including your own Wiki markup and HTML markup), you can choose the "Treat signature as wikitext (without automatic link)" checkbox in your Preferences.

For help on designing a signature, you may wish to read Help:Editing to understand how to create some basic wiki formatting.

Customizing your signature

Let's say a user named User:Example wants to use a custom signature, just use the example below:

Wikimarkup	Resulting code	Resulting display
~~~~	[[User:Example|<span style="color: gold;">'''Custom Example'''</span>]] [[User talk:Example|''<span style="color: blue;">talk</span>'']] 04:33, July 5 2024 (UTC)	Custom Example talk 04:33, July 5 2024 (UTC)

Icons

You can add in image into your signature to use it as an icon. Simply use the image coding [[File:Example image.jpg]] while substituting "Example image.jpg" for the name of the image you would like to use.

Signature guidelines

• Signature must reflect the user's username in part or whole.

This is basicly common sense: the purpose of your signature is to identify who you are in a talk page. If people can't identify who you are in a talk page, then your signature is not doing its job. Simply put, if your username is "Steve" then your signature being "Awesome-Ness" is not going to work. Unless your actual username is in a foreign language, use foreign letters sparingly as well. Finally avoid changing your signature too frequently, as this will cause confusion.

• Signatures must link to the user's user page and/or talk page.

Make sure to include a link to your user page and/or talk page in your signature, so that other users can find you and contact you easily.

• Images must be static and not too large.

Apply consideration when using an image in your signature. If an image is too large or a signature contains too many images, it can disrupt normal text spacings and slow loading times. To avoid this, the images must not be animated and no larger than 50 pixels wide, and 25 pixels high. It is recommended to name your image something like [[File:Example image.jpg|20px]]. Additionally, avoid using too many images in your signature as this can further slow loading times.

• Do not use colors that are too bright for text.

Colors that are too bright will cause the text to blend in with the white background and become difficult for others to read. Specifically the colors cyan, yellow, lime, and (obviously) white should be avoided.

• No line breaks.

Using <br>tags or line breaks within the signature will cause it to take up multiple lines of text on a page and so should not be used.

• The font size of the signature must be no larger than the normal text.

Do not use <big> or <span> tags to increase the text size of the signature, as this can disrupt line spacing as well as be distracting for readers.

• Do not include external links in signatures.

Do not link your signature to external websites as this will be viewed as linkspamming or a form of advertising. If the link uses [single brackets] or no brackets at all, it's an external link, so do not use them.