Template talk:Welcome-anon

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1 new
2 I'm confused about these two templates...
3 Edit link on template
4 Changed the following
5 "art" parameter
6 Autosignature
7 The new big border
8 I created Template:Welcomeanon2
9 Proposed wording change

[edit] new

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!

Terra Green 21:58, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

At some point they must have been merged, because this does take parameter 1 as a user name. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:58, 1 February 2007 (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)

[edit] Changed the following

From:

I would recommend that you get a username. You don't have to log in to read or edit articles on Wikipedia, but creating an account is quick, free and non-intrusive, requires no personal information, and there are many benefits of having a username. (If you edit without a username, your IP address is used to identify you instead.)

To:

Here are some other hints and tips:

I would recommend that you get a username, because:

You don't have to log in to read or edit articles on Wikipedia
Creating an account is quick, free and non-intrusive, requires no personal information, and there are many benefits of having a username.
Your privacy is better protected with a username. If you edit without a username, your IP address is used to identify you instead.
Veteran wikieditors take your edits more seriously, and are less likely to revert your work.

Best wishes, Travb (talk) 20:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "art" parameter

I find myself using this template the most when I see a GOOD edit by an IP, so I just added the "art" parameter to it (since "1" was taken): {{subst:welcome-anon|art=Radar detector}} — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:57, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Autosignature

Yuser31415 removed it saying, "I fail to understand why that was added.[1]" Well, it allowed an editor to subst the template and it would automatically sign and all. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 15:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)