User:Zedmelon/sigex
custom signatures
[edit]This page contains many examples of the custom signature. I copied this archive in two main sections--the first from NikoSilver's signature shop and the second from Athaenara--endeavoring to customize my own. NikoSilver designed for multiple other users, and Athaenara has assembled a massive and beautiful gallery.
My initial impression was that Athaenara believes the custom signature is an oft-abused feature, but I now am uncertain, as she used some rather complimentary adjectives on a separate page. I hoarded these to ensure that good ideas don't get lost in the interim should she decide to discontinue her page. Likewise, my original plan to erase this page gave way to the notion of keeping it as the example it serves.
To reduce confusion I've removed links from here to the other galleries--except the above, to give due credit. Speaking of such, did I spy Athaenara's signature tailing the Boxing it up section?
In chasing the artistic and expressive, I tried to remain mindful of the distractive. I like ideas like Bibilomaniac's random article link, Astrohurricane001's editor review link, and Control-alt-delete's favo(u)rites link.
Wikipedia didn't auto-generate a table of contents, the explicit TOC declaration below precluding it. I built this one manually, so it's crude; if you know of a template or something for a subordinate TOC, please let me know.
1. NikoSilver/Signature_shop
2. Athaenara/Gallery
2.1. Just ... out there
2.2. Flying the flags
2.3. Playing out the line
2.4. Boxing it up
2.5. Wingdings & Dingbats
2.6. u.op .p!sdn - This link broke somewhere when I edited with a browser lacking the proper character set...oops
2.7. Infinite variety
2.8. Gallery Guest Book (with even more sigs)
I've made some formatting modifications to better organize this amalgamation page. By no means are all the sigs worthy of emulation, but some exhibit creativity that belies their counter-aesthetic tendencies. ASCII face, anyone?
This subpage is dedicated to the signatures that I [NikoSilver] have created (or have significantly assisted in creating) for myself and other users. The included signatures below are only those that have been actually used by the users concerned, for some time.
Signatures created, gifted, and used
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User:Athaenara/Gallery/Beyond
[edit]Just ... out there
[edit]This section of A Wikipedian Signature Gallery was called by various names such as
Subtleties, Extreme, Out of Hand, Over the top, Monsters, and Irredeemably monstrous.
I moved it here for display in this out of the way location. — Athaenara 08:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
The Geography Expert--Glad to serve you • Chat or discuss something with me • What I give
The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily.
—Sincerely, Sockpuppet First Class, Jack Merridew
An Apple a day keeps -The Doctor- Away.. Or does it! (talk)(contribs)
SWJS: The All Knowing Destroy All Humans! Nerd (Cortex Scan)
bibliomaniac15 Hey you! Stop lazing around and help fix this article instead!
Great Tennis Players UBXen Gallery Tennisuser123Talk • Contribs
Ryan PostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter
AstroHurricane001(Talk+Contribs+Ubx) (+sign here+How's my editing?)
SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Count Contribs Logs
Control-alt-delete ★ user◾talk◾contrib◾favs
Set Sail For The Seven Seas 351° 29' 45" NET
Ṣ₡ЯՄ♏ʂɧ♆☭ ♲ recycle kids! omg i'm ur biggest fan...➤
Osarius That's me! : Naggin' again? : What did I do?!
GangstaEasterBunny-Wikilove to you all!
editor review me!-TeckWizTalkContribs# of Edits
INFORMATION CENTER© Talk Contribs
nathanrdotcom (Talk • Contribs)
Powerfulmind pleasetalktome! lookatallofmyedits!
ṜέđṃάяķvюĨїήīṣŢ Drop me a lineReview Me!
NRS (talk to me,mail me or award me a barnstar)
♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ ―Œ ♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk
*** Эɱ®εč¡κ *** ...and his friends
♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!)
(no lie) Iamagenius! So bow (t)(c)
User:Athaenara/Gallery
[edit]The last main section.
Flying the flags
[edit]Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C]
La Pianista (T•C•S)
Playing out the line
[edit]Boxing it up
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Outlines Groggy Dice T | C Daniel 123 ► ► · Asics<span style="font-size:smaller;"Talk
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Solids Shrieking Harpy......
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Wingdings & Dingbats
[edit]uʍop ǝp!sdn
[edit]Infinite variety
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Gallery Guest Book
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- Nice page! 131.247.220.9 22:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Absolutely beautiful! 131.247.220.9 23:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- I see you have one of my old sigs up there! I think this is a fascinating thing to see. ElaragirlTalk|Count 18:30, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
- Nice page! —sd31415 (sign here) 16:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- I love this page! Also feel so honoured you included my flag signature, but alas, I had to change it... « Keith t/e» 17:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- I like this page also — tennisman sign here! 13:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Wow! There are lots of interesting signatures here. AxG (talk) (sign here) 16:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- This only encourages people to create even more garish and obnoxious signatures—something we could do without. —Doug Bell talk 22:35, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- I caught sight of your sig gallery and I must say that with the formatting and layout it is a pleasure to look at. Take it easy. (→Netscott) 00:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for pointing me to the right direction! Sentinel 19:22, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- What an ingenious idea. I have just spent the whole day browsing Wikipedia, searching for the best it has to offer. I have found nothing better than your wonderful gallery. It's well edited and curated, creative, and has that something special required by but lacking from everything that is "good, but not great." This is really great. I just wish I could've been part of something as wonderful as this. Thank you, for brightening up my day, and enriching my life. Goldfritter 13:15, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
- Hi A, just wanted to say your curated signature collection inspired me to try being creative with my own. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
- Nice. (→zelzany - is one angry user) 02:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
- I mentioned your signature gallery [diff] to Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ), who enjoys creating signatures (he did mine). He enjoyed your collection [diff]. -- Jreferee (Talk) 23:39, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
- One of the neatest I've seen is Deskana's old one (not sure why he changed it): ɐuɐʞsəp (ʞɿɐʇ). Λυδαcιτγ 20:59, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
- There are some great ones here, very inspiring but also a cautionary tale! --scorpion 451 rant 16:59, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
- Very nice; and to think I had worried at times that my sig might be over the top. AUTiger » talk 07:14, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
- Surprising page, much enjoyed - even if some were a little over the top! ¶ 22:47, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- Lovely. Bardofcornish (talk) 23:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
- Cheers! The Steve 06:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
- LOVE the sig gallery -- and my sig is in it, how cool is that :) --Bookgrrl holler/lookee here 02:33, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the help in setting my signatures up!!! Jez Arnold ☎ ✉ ✍ 12:42, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
- Wow! I knew there were a lot of different signatures on Wikipedia, but that's a lot! Some of them are beautiful, some of them are ridiculous, and some of them are just plain... how did you DO that?! Thanks for the enjoyable time I had browsing! --Alinnisawest,Dalek Empress (extermination requests here) 02:11, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
- Huzzah! Nice page, feel free to add my old sig to it... ;) —Dinoguy1000 02:35, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
- Wow! Bit of a shock to see one of mine there! pablohablo. 00:18, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
- Nice to spot my old sig here ;) ╟─TreasuryTag►presiding officer─╢ 21:41, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
- Testing, testing II... A l a i n R 3 4 5
Techno-Wiki-Geek 00:07, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
- Kudos to this gallery. I found it after several clicks. I am stealing various elements from the signatures available to make my own Frankensignature. Adds a bit of life. TheSoundAndTheFury (talk) 15:53, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
- We just crossed paths, so I thought I'd take a stroll around your pages, and I found this incredibly beautiful, almost pristine Pantheon of signatures. What a delight to look at, and what an extreme surprise to find a version of my signature recently added as well! I'm absolutely honored, thank you so much! Your Beyond page is hilarious, btw. – Kerαunoςcopia◁[User_talk:Keraunoscopia|[galaxies]] 08:05, 9 June 2010 (UTC)