User talk:130.58/sig

Just curious about your sig. To get it to post the date correctly, do you simply type   instead of clicking the button "Your signature with timestamp" in the editing toolbar? I originally had a small datestamp much like yours, but took it out since I kept using the sig button out of habit, which resulted in a datestamp from my sig plus the default one. --- Barek (talk &bull; contribs) - 11:46, 23 April 2006 (CDT)
 * I don't post the date. To link my sig, I type in . In the sig, there's a nowiki tag around the , but calling subst on that evaluates the field anyway, so the date appears on a page. Being way too used to editing things without a GUI, I never realized there was a sig button until now! (I was just typing --~ before I made this page.) &mdash; 130.58 (talk) ( 11:53, 23 April 2006 (CDT) )
 * You may be interested to know that ~ s hidden in &lt;nowiki&gt; expanding when ed is considered (by some) to be a bug.  12:00, 23 April 2006 (CDT)
 * I thought it was weird, too. Wikipedia's pages about templates and signatures totally told me that that was the way to do it, though. I'll be sure to change styles if they ever fix it. &mdash; 130.58 (talk) ( 12:08, 23 April 2006 (CDT) )
 * The only problem is it looks like they plan to fix that "bug" by breaking the alternate functionality used by 130.58 (which they appear to acknowledge as being used in the posts about the bug). --- Barek (talk &bull; contribs) - 12:11, 23 April 2006 (CDT)


 * That's roughly what I guessed, although typing out seems the long way around.  For me, I've gone into "preferences", and filled in the field "Nickname" as "  ", then selected the "Raw signatures" box.  To get my signature to show, I can just type   , or to get the signature plus timestamp, I just type  --~  (same as my usual route of clicking the sig button). --- Barek (talk &bull; contribs) - 12:11, 23 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Nickname trick noted and yoinked. &mdash; 130.58 (talk)
 * Gah! It doesn't seem to like the date sub then. Bugtacular indeed! &mdash; 130.58 (talk) ( 12:15, 23 April 2006 (CDT) )
 * Odd, to get the Nickname trick to work, you need to remove the "nowiki" tags. Now, I just need to remember to type three tildes instead of the sig button. &mdash; Barek (talk &bull; contribs) - 12:18, 23 April 2006 (CDT)
 * I'm slow today - just realized the problem with that solution ... &mdash; Barek (talk &bull; contribs) - 12:18, 23 April 2006 (CDT)

While we're talking about signatures, what do y'all think: should I add a tiny pirate thing to it? I rather like the &#9760; Unicode character. &mdash; 130.58 (talk) ( 12:23, 23 April 2006 (CDT) )
 * My vote: &#x2611; &#x2638; &#x2610; &#x2620; &#x2610; &#x2693; 12:50, 23 April 2006 (CDT)