On 6/5/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/5/06, Guettarda <guettarda(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
It's also easier to follow conversations
long conversations when you can pick out the sigs without reading them
When you're reading a talkpage via a diff, it's a lot harder to pick
out the end of a paragraph and figure out who wrote it when the author
used a fancy signature with a half-dozen links in it.
Yep. Here are some good examples:
[[User:NoSeptember|<font color =
"green">'''NoSeptember'''</font>]]
[[User talk:NoSeptember|<font color =
"green"><sup>''talk''</sup></font>]] 14:22,
5 June 2006 (UTC)
<small>Jun. 5, '06</small><tt> '''[19:23] <<u
class=plainlinks>[{{fullurl:user:freakofnurture}}
freak]|[{{fullurl:user talk:freakofnurture|action=edit§ion=new}}
talk]</u>>'''</tt>
--[[user:Celestianpower|Cel]]<font
color="green">[[User:Celestianpower/Esperanza|es]]</font>[[User:Celestianpower|tianpower]]
<sup>[[user talk:Celestianpower|háblame]]</sup> 13:09, 5 June 2006
(UTC)
--<font
size="1">[[User:GeorgeMoney|GeorgeMoney]] <sup>[[User_talk:GeorgeMoney|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/GeorgeMoney|C]]</sup></font>
03:17, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
<tt>[[User:RadioKirk|<span style="color:
#161;">Radio</span>]][[Special:Contributions/RadioKirk|<span
style="color: #161;">Kirk</span>]]</tt> <tt>[[User
talk:RadioKirk|<span style="font-size: 9px; color: #161;">talk to
me</span>]]</tt> 05:06, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
<!--Cuivienen's signature begins here-->—<span
style="font-variant:small-caps"><font
color="gray">[[Wikipedia:Concordia|C]]</font>[[User:Cuivienen|uivi]]<font
color=green>[[User:Cuivienen/Esperanza|é]]</font>[[User:Cuivienen|nen]]<sup>[[User
talk:Cuivienen|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Cuivienen|C]]|[[Special:Emailuser/Cuivienen|@]]</font></sup></span><span
style="font-size:85%;"> on [[Tuesday]], [[30 May]] [[2006]] at 20:54
[[UTC]]</span>'''<!--Cuivienen's signature ends here-->
(yes, the comments are actually part of the signature)
[[User:NSLE|NSL]][[WP:EA|<font color="green">E]]</font>
<sub>([[User_talk:NSLE|T]]+[[Special:Contributions/NSLE|C]])</sub> at
01:19 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]
<small>([[2006-06-04]])</small>
'''[[User:Nobleeagle|<font
color="darkblue">Noble</font><font
color="darkorange">eagle</font>]]'''
[[User_talk:Nobleeagle|<font
color="darkred"><font size="0.5">
(Talk)</font></font>]] 07:50, 9
April 2006 (UTC)
--'''[[User:Fbv65edel|Fbv]]'''<font
color="red">[[User:Fbv65edel|65]]</font>''[[User:Fbv65edel|edel]]''
<sup>([[User_talk:Fbv65edel|discuss]] |
[[Special:Contributions/Fbv65edel|contribs]])</sup> 23:59, 10 April
2006 (UTC)
--<font style="background:gold">[[WP:EA|<font
color="green">S</font>]][[User:Siva1979|iva1979]]</font><sup><font
style="background:yellow">[[User talk:Siva1979|Talk to
me]]</font></sup> 15:32, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
[[User:Titoxd|Tito]][[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span
style="color:#008000;">xd</span>]]<sup>([[User_talk:Titoxd|?!?]]
-
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters/Flcelloguy's Tool|help
us]])</sup> 05:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
That should offer some food for thought. And for anyone who made it
through all that, puzzle for the day: is [[User:Richard Branson]] for
real?
Steve