On 6/5/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/5/06, Guettarda guettarda@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