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It includes links to relevant pages. The -- Verbarson part links to here, my User page; the talk links to my User talk page; and the edits links to my Contributions page. The whole is wrapped in a template that keeps it from being split over two lines.
Here is the code that creates it (as entered on my Preferences page under the User profile tab):
For this to work, I must also tick Treat the above as wiki markup
Breakdown of the code
Here is a explanation of each part of the signature code.
{{ start template
SUBST: 'magic word' SUBST before template name[a]
nowrap the actual template name[b]
| start template parameter (everything else)
[[ start wikilink
User:Verbarson link target: my user page
|-- Verbarson text to display for user page link
]] end wikilink
extra space for readability
<sup> start superscript
[[ start wikilink
User talk:Verbarson link target: my user talk page
|talk text to display for talk page link
]] end wikilink
</sup> end superscript
<sub> start subscript
[[ start wikilink
Special:Contributions/Verbarson link target: my contributions
|edits text to display for my contributions link
]] end wikilink
</sub> end subscript
}} end template
Notes
^SUBST causes the template to be evaluated once, and the result to be inserted in the text. This means that if I change my signature in the future, the existing copies will not change. It also makes the page load slightly faster (a benefit on history pages, which may have hundreds of signatures).
^{{nowrap}} ensures the signature will not be split over two lines
But there is another aspect to my signature that is invisible to everyone except me.
In my common.css page is the code
/* Highlight sig for my use only - bold black text on green */
#bodyContent a[title="User:Verbarson"] { background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; }
The effect of this is that when I am signed in (which causes my common.css to be active on every wiki page) and the browser finds an anchor titled "User:Verbarson" (which includes my signature, and a few other items), it will display it in bold black text on a green background, like this: -- Verbarson talkedits. This makes occurrences of my signature stand out to me, which is useful on Talk and History pages, without it being unduly distracting for any other reader.
NOTE: although I created these pages, and am chuffed to have done so, they are in no sense "my" pages, and many other editors have enlarged and improved them.
This is really why I started editing Wikipedia. I wanted to be able to compare the various Churchward standard classes by the standard parts they shared, and I realised that the wikitable sort mechanism made that easy. So I have created this page to do it, and let everyone share.
A redirect page to Queen's Pier Tramway. It should be the other way round, with the tramway being a section within the pier's article, but the tramway article existed, and the only "Queen's Pier" article referred to Hong Kong, so I put this in for those who might search for it.
This has now been switched round, so that Tramway redirects to a section of the Pier article.
The list of renumbered oil-burners was found to be too much for the GWR numbering page, so I've started this page for that list and any other relevant info I can dig up.
This brings together PoIgb templates for all the passenger-carrying lines on the Isle of Man, and also makes them individually available for transclusion on other pages.
Three of the five cliff railways have no specific article; this will fill that gap. The very limited articles for the other two have been redirected to this one, which has more information, and better citations.
The oldest self-powered passenger vehicle still in working order. I discovered its existence by accident while searching Commons for images about Churchward.
A template that adds clickable links to the underlying image. When I first saw this diagram I tried to click on the various parts and was disappointed when it didn't work; now it does.
I had always felt that the GWR numbering system was best laid out in two dimensions, so I started to build a table to do it. It turned out more complex than I was expecting, but I am fairly satisfied with the outcome. I'm glad the data is static; I wouldn't want to keep a table like this updated if the information changed regularly!
The article was small and almost entirely unreferenced. Even now, it is almost entirely locomotive oriented. Collett did much other work with coaches and other aspects of railway engineering.