User talk:Lightninginajar

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Dicklyon, I hope you realize your error regarding the "and the date" clause of your four tildes explanation. As far as I understand Wikipedia's wiki syntax, two dashes  are required for a date-&-time stamp. Therefore a syntactically correct "date-&-time stamp" + "signature" would be  --Benjamin Richards (talk) 18:07, 6 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I believe the info in Template:Welcome is correct, that four tildes are all that's needed. Where does this idea about a pair of hyphens come from?  Dicklyon (talk) 06:30, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

From the wikipedia editor itself and I have uploaded and included a screenshot as it was rendered on a MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2012 model running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 and Safari 10.0.1 with the default "skin" for wikipedia's style.

--Benjamin Richards (talk) 21:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Also after reading a little over a dozen wikipedia help or special pages reachable through the link for Simplified Manual of Style I was able to confirm it --Benjamin Richards (talk) 21:15, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

List of effects
Please review your edits at List of effects, all of which I have reverted. If you see any that you think should have been kept, let's talk. Dicklyon (talk) 23:18, 27 November 2012 (UTC)