Signing comments

Try out all these techniques below in the playground.

This is not for all edits. In any case you can see who made which edit on the “Old revisions” button, and you can see who last edited the page at the bottom right: that is put there automatically. Equally, if there is a reasonable consensus between curators, there is no point to claiming individual authorship.

The one vital exception to this is in the “Commentary” section, which is explained in the annotated template for topic pages. The point here is to encourage individual curators to put their own personal perspective, in cases where their personal position is not the same as the consensus of other curators. Individual curators may also use that space to add any helpful comments, where they are not sure about the consensus and they haven't talked it over.

In these cases, put your signature after your comment, leaving comments from individuals in separate paragraphs.

This is the recommended method of inserting your signature. In the toolbar you will see the icon which if you hover over it is called “Insert Signature”. If you click on that, it will insert, at your cursor position, the code:

--- //[[user:asimong|Simon Grant]] 2026/04/13 13:39//

giving

— Simon Grant 2026/04/13 13:39

This simply takes longer, so you are encouraged to use the toolbar, as above.

In Wikipedia and other MediaWiki installations, you can sign using ~~~~, producing something similar to what is given above using the toolbar. This does not work here:

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