User:Willscrlt/Welcome
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[edit] Welcome template
This is my personal welcome message to new Wikipedians:
Welcome, Willscrlt!Български | Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano | Lietuvių | 한국어 | Magyar | Nederlands | Polski | Português Русский | Suomi | Svenska | Türkçe | 简体中文 | The main embassy page
Hello, Willscrlt, and welcome to Wikipedia!
I am [[User:{{{name}}}|{{{name}}}]], one of the many editors here at Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions, and I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links you might find helpful:
 The five pillars of Wikipedia |
 Tutorial |
 How to edit a page |
 How to write a great article |
 Help pages |
 Manual of Style |
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Some other hints and tips:
- If you haven't already, you might want to log in to access all the benefits of a free Wikipedia account, like the watchlist.
- Talk pages, such as yours, which you are viewing now, are the way that Wikipedians communicate and leave messages or feedback for one another. All information placed on a talk page is publicly viewable, permanently archived, and usable by anyone for any purpose. It is a very bad idea to publish secure information or anything you wish to keep private on a talk page, or anywhere else in Wikipedia, because of the openness of the system.
- When using talk pages, please sign your name at the end of your messages by typing four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically produce your username and the date.
If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my [[User talk:{{{name}}}|talk page]], or type {{helpme}} here on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Another option is to visit the Wikipedia Boot Camp or the Adopt-a-User center, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any questions you have.
I'm looking forward to seeing your future contributions, Willscrlt! 
—[[User:{{{name}}}|{{{name}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{name}}}|Talk]]) 17:46, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Usage
I have designed this template for anyone to be able to use it. It's really easy.
- Go to the new user's talk page and add a new section
- Click the
+at the top of the page and enter "Welcome" or some other greeting for the subject, OR - Edit the page and start a new section like this:
== Welcome ==(replace "Welcome" with any subject line you prefer).
- Click the
- Copy the following text and paste it (or type it if that's easier) into the blank space following the subject line.
{{subst:User:Willscrlt/Welcome| name=Your Name | Your Message | type=User Type | siggy=~~~~ | user=Their Name }}
- or, even more simply:
{{subst:User:Willscrlt/Welcome| name=~~~ | type=user }}
- or, for anonymous users:
{{subst:User:Willscrlt/Welcome| name=~~~ | type=anon }}
- The first attribute (name=Your Name) is required; just enter your Wikipedia user name.
- If you do not have a registered user name, just enter three tildes ("~~~"), and your computer's Internet address will be filled in for you automatically. This serves as your temporary user name until you register for an account.
- If you have a customized signature, do not use the three tildes (it will look really weird!); instead, type your name and save the three tildes for the siggy attribute.
- If you do not include your name or Internet address, then {{{1}}} appears, and that's not what you want.
- The second attribute (Your Message) is entirely optional. It is for additional text that you want included with the message. Maybe you have your own special hints, a personal message, or even another template that you want to include, and this is where you can do it. You could use this to include a vandalism warning message, for example. If you leave it out, there's no problem, either.
- Avoid funky punctuation within a message like the pipe symbol ("|"), equals sign ("="), and repeated braces ("{{" or "}}"), unless they are part of another template, a link, or an image. Such symbols can cause many problems and may truncate text you enter or cause strange-looking errors to appear.
- The third attribute (type=User Type) indicates if the user is a new registered user ("
user"), a more experienced registered user ("userexp"), or an anonymous user ("anon"). - The fourth attribute (siggy=) is optional, but recommended. You can place three or four tildes ("~~~" or "~~~~") to have your standard Wikipedia signature appear (or signature and time stamp if you use the four tilde version). If you omit the signature, then a default one based on Your Name will be used (or Willscrlt if you also omit the Your Name, which is not a good idea).
- The fifth attribute (user=) is optional and not usually needed. If you leave it out, the template will pick of the name of the user from the talk page automagically. You can use a different name (like their real name if they have tell you what it is on their user page), if you want it to appear instead of the automatic one.
- It is always a good idea to select show preview before saving to be sure nothing went wrong.
This template borrows ideas and code from several other templates, most notably those created by Anas Salloum, Booksworm, and Audacity.
