User talk:Trecord

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• Hi Trecord, and welcome to Heroes Wiki! Your sig is cool, but it was messing up some talk pages cause it was missing a couple closing span tags. I fixed that, but you should also set your preferences to insert your template instead of substitute it, as multi-line signatures like yours can quickly spam a talk page, making it difficult to edit.--MiamiVolts (talk) 00:16, 10 November 2007 (EST)
• Thanks Miami, what's the best way for me to fix it? Like, step by step? (I'm a wiki noob, if you can't tell!:) --TRECORD-- Talk/Contrib 00:42, 10 November 2007 (EST)
  • Click on "My preferences", then in your "User profile" under where it says "Nickname" put {{User:Trecord/sig}} and click "Save" to save your preferences. Then, the next time you save a comment, only the template should be included. Make sure you don't have a substitution (anything with "subst:") in your nickname field.--MiamiVolts (talk) 00:58, 10 November 2007 (EST)
  • Well, let's see if it worked -----> --TRECORD-- Talk/Contrib 01:11, 10 November 2007 (EST)
  • Hmm, I updated my preferences, but it's still giving all the tags and stuff in the signature. I did remove the "subst:" from it, however. --TRECORD-- Talk/Contrib 01:12, 10 November 2007 (EST)
  • What you can do is make a second page, like User:Trecord/autosig, and the content on it is simply {{User:Trecord/sig}}. Then in preferences, use the autosig as the template instead of the sig page. That will fix it. The reason is mediawiki automatically uses a subst: in front of templates. For a reference, look at User:Baldbobbo/sig versus User:Baldbobbo/autosig. Hope that helps.--Bob (talk) 01:48, 10 November 2007 (EST)
  • Well, here's a first shot. Let's hope it works! --{{SUBST:{User:Trecord/autosig}} 01:58, 10 November 2007 (EST)
  • Hmm, no dice. Am I doing something incorrect? --TRECORD-- Talk/Contrib 02:00, 10 November 2007 (EST)
  • Hmm, for some odd reason it worked the second time. Oh well! --TRECORD-- Talk/Contrib 02:00, 10 November 2007 (EST)
    • Close. Just in your preferences, type verbatim {{User:Trecord/autosig}}. It'll automatically add the subst in and do the hard stuff.--Bob (talk) 02:00, 10 November 2007 (EST)