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Happy editing! GeneralNotability (talk) 01:25, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks.

Sorry about the unsigned posts - I didn't realise that this system doesn't sign automatically FloweringOctopus (talk) 07:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC). FloweringOctopus (talk) 07:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

1. Add four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment, or
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This is a general notice of signing posts, why you always sign your post for more than one times? Lemonaka (talk) 17:08, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

@Lemonaka and @GeneralNotabilityI am not signing my posts twice, at least, not deliberately. The talk page posts look from my end as if they sign automatically. But GeneralNotability told me talk page posts needed signing manually. Being hopelessly absent minded, I have managed to put comments up since without remembering to sign them, so I have gone back and edited them with the signature tildes, whereupon they, puzzlingly, look to me too as if they have been signed twice. However, I assumed that this was an artifact of looking at your own work, and that other people could only see the signature added manually.FloweringOctopus (talk) 10:39, 2 January 2023 (UTC)