Editing Forum:How do I create and edit my sig?!

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I don't know haw can someone help me? Last Onion

:How I was showed how to do it was to first create a subpage of your userpage to put your fancy signature on, which would be called [[User:Last Onion/sig]]. You can see mine at [[User:Jimbo Jambo/sig]], and you can also take a look at other people's signature pages to get an idea of what to put there. Next, create another subpage called [[User:Last Onion/sig 2]], and simply put the text <nowiki>{{User:Last Onion/sig}}</nowiki>. Lastly, go to ''My Preferences'' and in the ''Nickname'' box put <nowiki>{{User:Last Onion/sig2}}. It'll automatically change it to {{SUBST:user:Last Onion/sig2}}, so don't worry about that. Then make a post and sigh it with some tildes. What this all does is substitutes the tildes with the text on your sig2 page, which is {{User:Last Onion/sig}}</nowiki>. This allows you to display your signature without all the jumble and bumble of the raw text your signature is composed of. {{user:Jimbo Jambo/sig}}

Sorry if im wasting your time but, whats a sub page? Last Onion 03:49, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

As he just said, it's when you add a / to an article. As another example, a subpage of ''Red Bulborb'' could be called ''Red Bulborb/Habits''. You should ignore the ''sig 2'' thing for now, that was rather a repair of Jimbo's sig. An alternate explanation to this is [[Help:Editing#Signatures|here]]. That explanation is a bit more detailed (Not that yours was bad, though).--{{User:Prezintenden/sig}}10:36, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

:I thought you needed a second signature page because the Nickname field automatically substitutes text from whatever template you used in it. ...Or does mine just do that because I'm using a template within a template? {{User:Jimbo Jambo/sig2}}

::Substituion only occurs when you add <nowiki>{{subst:[...]}}</nowiki>. Without that, it always inserts an entire page, but not in form of coding. And now, I'll use <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>, which will form the code itself.--[[User:Prezintenden|<b><span style="color:Orange">Prez</span></b>]]<b>[[User talk:Prezintenden|<span style="color:Gray">intenden</span>]]</b> 17:12, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

:::I had thought that it substituted my sig2 page because I used a template within a template, but apparently it just automatically does it when you put a template in the Nickname field. Anyway, my point is that if you put a sig2 page in the Nickname field, the substituted text it adds to pages in the text on the sig2 page, which is <nowiki>{{User:User/sig}}</nowiki>, rather than the raw signature text, so you can sign pages quickly with tildes without adding too much text. {{user:Jimbo Jambo/sig}}

::::''Now'' I get what I misunderstood. Yeah, I can see how this would save me time. I shall now test thee.--{{User:Prezintenden/sig}} 17:47, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks it took me 5 hours to get it right!Last Onion 22:12, 13 April 2008 (UTC)