Template talk:Welcome-anon

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This is a new template for welcoming anons. I hacked it together out of other templates such as {{welcome}}, {{welcomeip}}, and {{anon}}.

There didn't seem to be a template that really did the trick, in my opinion. I wanted it to be largely based on {{welcome}}, but to make some reference to the issue of getting an account while not being dominated by it. And {{welcomeip}} is (at time of writing) frankly pretty close to biting the newcomers in my opinion.

To use it, just do:

{{welcome-anon}} or {{subst:welcome-anon}}

There is also a variant which takes your user name as argument, which makes the "my talk page" into a link. For that, do:

{{welcome-anon-from|your_username}} or {{subst:welcome-anon-from|your_username}}

And don't forget to sign!

TerraGreen 21:58, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


Ignore my edits, I reverted them. I thought I was editing my own copy of this!!!--Konstable 02:05, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Is there any reason not to merge this with Template:Createaccount, and redirect one of them to the other (doesn't matter which)? — CharlotteWebb 16:53, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I'm confused about these two templates...

welcome-anon-from used to work like it was supposed to, but I just tried to use it a few minutes ago, and I got extra brackets and words around the "my talk page" link. Then I figured out that welcome-anon has apparently been modified to work the way welcome-anon-from is supposed to work. The code for welcome-anon makes sense to me, with that "if" thing... but what about welcome-anon-from? What's with all the nested brackets? Since welcome-anon does everything welcome-anon-from should do, can we just redirect welcome-anon-from to welcome-anon? (I don't know much about redirecting templates.) --Allen 01:01, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit link on template

There is an edit link on this template (in reality it is a section edit, which redirects if not subst:'d), which I accidently hit because the page was not substituted... Should there be an error if this template is not substituted, to avoid edits to this template accidently. Ansell 05:21, 17 October 2006 (UTC)