User talk:HellLord

Your signature's timestamp format
Hi HellLord,

First, thank you for signing your talk page, user talk page, and noticeboard posts with four tildes. This is crucial for helping to identify you.

Nevertheless, as our noticeboards and some talk pages are automatically archived by a bot, the bot requires certain formatting conventions to user signatures, or it will prevent the thread from being archived. In the case of your most recent thread, replied to you in his patrolling and clerking of stewards' noticeboard, so the thread will be still archived as his signature and timestamp meets the guidelines. Had CircleyDoesExtracter not replied, though, and your post received no replies, it wouldn't have been archived.

Thus, we require that signature timestamps follow the standard requirements, which include formatting your timestamp as in this example:

If you'll go into the main preferences tab of your preferences here on Meta, you can easily update your timestamp format to comply with Autoarchive.

In addition, while not required now, the forthcoming DiscussionTools extension and MediaWiki 1.35 will require that users link to either (a) their user page or (b) their user talk page, so you may want to get ahead of that and also provide a link to either (or both). Simply check the option to "treat signature as wikitext." You can also use as a transcluded signature (like CircleyDoesExtracter does), if you wish.

Cheers,

Dmehus (talk) 14:56, 31 August 2020 (UTC)