User talk:Gil Dawson
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Angela. 00:58, Feb 5, 2004 (UTC)
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Signing edit summaries
Hi Gil Dawson, I just want to let you know that there's no reason to type four tildes (~~~~) in an edit summary, as they are not shorthand for a signature in that context (nor is a signature generally used in an edit summary). Signing with tildes is only used in talk pages, such as the one you're reading right now. If you look at your contributions, you'll see that there are a lot of tildes in there! Ibadibam (talk) 20:26, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarifying that, Ibadibam. --Gil
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