User:Ingoolemo/Threads/05/11/15a

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[edit] your .sig

G'day Ingoolemo,

I've just been going through my watchlist, and I note that a lot of the pages on the Wikipedia: namespace are bright blue. This is because you have commented on those pages. Could you please take a look at your .sig preferences, and try to close all the tags you've opened therein? Give me a bell if you need any help with the HTML. Cheers, fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 04:15, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I recently eliminated the font colour from my signature. The problem you're having is most likely with your browser, because I don't think most people are having those problems: the old sig was [[User:Ingoolemo|<font color=blue>Ingoolemo</font]] [[User talk:Ingoolemo|<font color=blue><sup>talk</sup></font]], so as you can see, all html tags are closed. Ingoolemo ^talk 04:49, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Um, I refer you to this: [[User:Ingoolemo|<font color=blue>Ingoolemo</font]] – because of a typo, you don't close the first FONT tag. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 04:58, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. Actually, the script above has the same typo (</font]]) in both the User page as well as the User talk page links. However, I don't think this was the problem. If you scroll up Ingelmoo's talk page, you find on Nov 8th an instance of the old sig. The text is:

[[User:Ingoolemo|<font color=blue>Ingoolemo</font>]] [[User_talk:Ingoolemo|<font color=blue><sup>talk</font></sup>]] 04:19, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Note that there is no typo in the sig. However, the HTML tags in the User talk link are not nested properly. The </sup> should precede the </font>. I think that's why, when HTML Tidy went down, all the pages with that signature turned blue. encephalon 05:58, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Encephalon's explanation is the most likely, since the sig example I gave above was typed from memory, not copied from elsewhere. Ingoolemo ^talk 05:02, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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