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{{nutshell|Discussion pages are about discussion. Do not highlight your signature to draw attention away from discussion to focus on your name.}}
It is standard practice on Wikipedia to sign talk page comments, adding information about who wrote it and when it was written. Registered users can customize their signatures through their preferences, affecting how their signatures appear to other users. Some users change their signatures for functional reasons, and others customize it for stylistic reasons, as a means of expression.
A signature should not, however, distract from the discussion itself. When you use text highlighting or other CSS to turn your username into a [[billboard]], you pull editors' concentration away from the substance of the talk page to instead focus on your name. A better place to use extensive highlighting, colors, and other styles is on your userpage to which your signature links, not every instance of your signature.
==What the guideline says==
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