A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalism. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia!
{{subst:Thank You IP|Article}} – references a specific article
{{subst:Thank You IP|Article|Additional text}} – adds text onto the end of the message
1. A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalism. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia!
2. A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalismin the Page name article. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia!
3. A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalismin the Page name article. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia! (Your Personal Message Appears Here)
If you would like to leave a general note without citing an article, and you want to add your own personal message, just double-pipe and leave the Pagename parameter blank, like this...
A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalism. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia! (Your Personal Message Appears Here)
A Welcome template can also be embedded in the "Additional text" section.
{{subst:Thank You IP|Pagename|{{subst:Welcome to Wikipedia}}}} will yield:
A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalismin the Pagename article. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia!
Welcome USER'S NAME!
Now that you've joined Wikipedia, there are 48,220,285 registered users!
Hello, USER'S NAME. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions! I'm WELCOMER, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge. IP ADVISED TO CREATE ACCOUNT.
Some pages of helpful information to get you started:
Remember to always sign your posts on talk pages. You can do this either by clicking on the button on the edit toolbar or by typing four tildes(~~~~) at the end of your post. This will automatically insert your EITHER "signature" OR "IP address", a link to this (your talk) page, and a timestamp.
The best way to learn about something is to experience it. Explore, learn, contribute, and don't forget to have some fun! To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can REGISTERED USERS CAN CREATE OWN SANDBOX for use any time. Perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you can put a link to it on your user page. REGISTERED USERS WITH NO USER PAGE ENCOURAGED TO CREATE IT.
The default "float" value is "right". You can use the first parameter to float this userbox either left or center, with the following addition to the above code...
{{Thank You IP/User box|left}}
which will float the user box to the left...
Thank you, IP!
This user believes that vandal-reverting IP addressesshould be thanked for their efforts!
{{Thank You IP/User box|center}}
which will float the user box to the center of your page...
Thank you, IP!
This user believes that vandal-reverting IP addressesshould be thanked for their efforts!
Any of the following inline, comment-level templates can be converted into {{Resolved}}-style hatnotes by using {{Resbox}} to put a box around the icon and text.
Template:Resolved/See also, the smaller family of thread-level hatnote templates, similar to the above but with a box around them; any template above can be converted to one of those with {{Resbox}}