Template:W-short

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Hello, W-short, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page provides helpful information for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Happy editing! ~~~~

This template employs intricate features of template syntax. You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages. Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.

[edit] Instructions

• To greet a user with this template just as it appears above (your signature will automatically replace the ~~~~), place the following wikicode on the user's talk page:

{{subst:w-short}}

• To add a message before the last sentence, use:

{{subst:w-short|message}}

Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Happy editing!"

• To add an additional message specific to anonymous users which recommends creating an account, use:

{{subst:w-short|anon=true}}

• To add a border, use:

{{subst:w-short|border=color}}

Replace color with the name or code of the color you'd like to use. This can be in either named (e.g., DarkOrchid) or hexadecimal (e.g., #9932CC) format. For a list of colors, see web colors.

• To add a heading to the greeting (changes "Welcome..." to a level-2 heading), use:

{{subst:w-short|heading=true}}

• To change the wording of the heading, use:

{{subst:w-short|headtext=your text}}

Replace your text with type in the text you want to replace "Welcome..." with.

• The above options can be combined:

{{subst:w-short|One more thing:|border=DarkOrchid|heading=true|headtext=Welcome to Wikipedia}}