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Advanced Signatures Signatures in Wikipedia are what you put after writing a comment on a talk page. This can be done by writing ~. Maybe you have seen signatures on talk pages with lots of colors and links. Here is how to do that: First (optional), you have to get an external editor. Open your favourite editor, such as Frontpage or Nvu and put in some text and color; format it and put links in it by adding brackets. Then select it and go to the source code (typically by seleciting the HTML or Source tab) and copy the code of your text into a User_page. Be sure not to copy the tags at the beginning and end of the code that say  , if they exist. Then go to your preferences and put this: into the Nickname field. Check the box that says "Raw signature" and save your preferences. Now you're done! Just type four tildes ~ in a talk page and your new signature will appear

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