User:Zedmelon/sigex

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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?

User:NikoSilver/Signature_shop[edit]

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[edit]

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 youChat or discuss something with meWhat I give 

The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily.

Sincerely, Sockpuppet First Class, Jack Merridewthis user is a sock puppet

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 Tennisuser123TalkContribs

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 ★ usertalkcontribfavs

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?!

GangstaKentuckyEasterUnited StatesBunny-Wikilove to you all!

editor review me!-TeckWizTalkContribs# of Edits

 INFORMATION CENTER©   Talk   Contribs 

nathanrdotcom (TalkContribs)

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

iGUItARH3R0KHR!ZT0PH3R!_-=

*** Эɱ®εč¡κ *** ...and his friends

>HeWhoComesWithTheDawn!!<

TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!)

╟─TreasuryTagcontribs─╢

(no lie) Iamagenius! So bow (t)(c)

♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ Walkie-talkie

E9 | ROCKAB00M | TALK | ROCKER!!


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S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s

ALLST☆R echo

MITH


User:Athaenara/Gallery[edit]

The last main section.

A   Wikipedian  Signature  Art  Gallery  


Est. November 2006 –  


Flying the flags[edit]

Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C]

SWATJester Ready Aim Fire!

SonicChao talk contribs

La Pianista (TCS)

JohnnyBGood t c

 theKeith  Talk to me 

Camillus (talk)

CJ Miller [T]/[C]

Cyrus Andiron

Nightstallion

Ronline

plattopustalk

Que-Can

Xania talk

Kukini

Grunt

Mask

Playing out the line[edit]

Boxing it up[edit]

Wingdings & Dingbats[edit]

uʍop ǝp!sdn[edit]

·ʍaunus·snunɐw·

¡ǝıʞʞǝɹʇ ʇuǝıɔuɐ

uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs

uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs

ɐuɐʞsəp (ʞɿɐʇ)

ɹəəpıɔnı

Infinite variety[edit]


Gallery Guest Book[edit]

Note: this gallery is a curated collection: please do not add signatures to other sections. 
Visitor messages are very welcome here in the Guest Book and on the gallery talk page. Thank you. 


  • Absolutely beautiful! 131.247.220.9 23:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Add myself, this is great! Reywas92Talk 22:11, 14 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)
  • Signing once more. Happy editing! S.D. ¿п? § 21:59, 20 January 2007 (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)
  • 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)
  • Rather nice page. Rather long though.The New Mikemoral 23:37, 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)
  • 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)
  • Awesome sigs! --Barkjon- talk 20:51, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the help in setting my signatures up!!! Jez Arnold       12:42, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Fun to look through, thanks for doing this! the_ed17 02:09, 13 August 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)
  • Now when did that get there? Very enjoyable page! G.A.Stalk 05:39, 8 October 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 ;) ╟─TreasuryTagpresiding officer─╢ 21:41, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Nice! I enjoyed the gallery. Like my sig? :) œ 08:07, 11 January 2010 (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)
  • Very cool gallery, enjoyed looking at it. Nice job! ~SuperHamster T-C-GB 23:24, 4 May 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)
  • Very cool gallery! Some of these are a lot better than the usual, especially what I see around the highway-related projects. Imzadi 1979  08:45, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
  • Very fun page. LadyofShalott 05:54, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
  • This is great! I see my old sig up there...Good work! --E♴ (talk) 05:46, 5 March 2011 (UTC)