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Hello, W-graphical-anon, and Welcome to Wikipedia!
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Instructions
[edit]- 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-graphical-anon}}
- To add a message in an additional paragraph before the last sentence, use:
{{subst:W-graphical-anon|message}}
- Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Happy editing!"
- To add a (level-2) heading above the greeting, use:
{{subst:W-graphical-anon|heading=heading text}}
- The heading will be the text you replace your text with.
- To change the color of the entire message, use:
{{subst:W-graphical-anon|color=color}}
- Replace color with one of the following choices (the default is navy blue and orange, shown above):
cyanpink
- The above options can be combined:
{{subst:W-graphical-anon|Wikipedia is amazing.|heading=true|headtext=Welcome to Wikipedia}}
See also
[edit]- {{Thanks}}
- {{Welcome-anon}} – encourages getting a username
- {{Welcome-anon-constructive}} – have helped in vandal fighting and have made constructive edits
- {{Welcome-anon-npov}}
- {{Welcome-anon-suboptimal}} – have made edits that were clearly intended to be constructive, but had to be reverted for some reason
- {{welcome-anon-summary}} – have made constructive edits, but forgot to use an edit summary
- {{Welcome-anon-test}} – seem to have made a test edit
- {{Welcome-anon-unconstructive}} – have vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted
- {{Welcome-anon-unsourced}}
- {{Welcome-anon-vandalism-fighter}}
- {{Welcome-t-anon}} – like {{Welcome-anon}} with a link to the Teahouse
- {{Welcome-anon-t}} – alternate version of {{welcome-t-anon}}
- {{W-graphical-anon}} – encourages getting a username, based on graphical welcome template
- Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates