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Well, what I and a few others do is put your sig as a template (e.g. {{User:Fallacy/sig}}) on a second subpage in your userspace called User:Fallacy/sigsubt, and paste that (as {{User:Fallacy/sigsubst}}) in the "Signature" box under your Preferences, instead. That way, your signature always appears as a template every time you sign. (This also means you could make your signature as big as you want.)

But, Nx isn't a big fan of that approach, given it burdens the server with a ton more templates to process. But I prefer it anyways, because I happen to like my massive sigs.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.09:06, 26 December 2011

Doesn't SAFESUBST make that redundant?

Fartertalk to me :D|see my shit09:08, 26 December 2011

No idea. But what I said above is how someone (Human, I think) told me to do it ages ago. They complained my sig was "vomiting code all over the place." :-)

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.09:11, 26 December 2011

Give me a second to explain already before confusing poor newbie

-- Nx / talk09:14, 26 December 2011

Sorry about that...

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.09:15, 26 December 2011
 
 

The method Stabby suggested is not necessary any more, as you can just put {{User:Fallacy/sig}} into your preferences. With this, every time you sign, {{User:Fallacy/sig}} is inserted into the page, so it won't dump all the code into the talk page, and if you change your sig it will be updated everywhere. However, this is a huge burden on the server, especially on large talk pages like the saloon bar.

Putting {{subst:User:Fallacy/sig}} into your preferences will instead dump the whole code when you sign. The only problem with this is that normally, that means dumping the whole choose part as it is. Now, you can't just put subst in front of choose as well, because then when you click save on your sig subpage, it'll be substed. So instead you have to use safesubst (with the includeonly around it).

-- Nx / talk09:17, 26 December 2011

So, SAFESUBST seems to functioning exactly the same as just — (talk to) [æn əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈnaiːɪlɪst], then. Even if it does strain the server, I like it, because then the talk pages aren't filled with a bunch of garbage that makes it hard to read the source. But do whatever you think is best.

Flitzertalk to me :D|see my shit09:23, 26 December 2011

Not exactly, if someone substs a page with safesubst, the safesubst part will be substituted, that's the point.

See here, you didn't have safesubst in the choose part, and it dumped the whole thing. Then I added safesubst here, and the result is this - the whole choose part was replaced by litzer, which is what you want.

The includeonly tag around it is only necessary to make {{User:Fallacy/sig}} work as well.

-- Nx / talk09:30, 26 December 2011

Hm... I think I'm beginning to understand.

Flitzertalk to me :D|see my shit09:38, 26 December 2011