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Shortcuts. WP:WT. WP:WC/WT. This is a list of templates available for greeting new users. Anyone may use these templates for greeting a new user on their Talk page. For a display of the various basic designs, see Wikipedia:Welcome template table .
This template is subject to page protection.It is a highly visible template in use by a very large number of pages, or is substituted very frequently. Because vandalism or mistakes would affect many pages, and even trivial editing might cause substantial load on the servers, it is protected from editing.
WP:TEMPLATEINDEX. This page provides an index of templates used within Wikipedia, many of which convey messages; they are grouped into topic-specific headings. For information on what templates are, and how the template namespace is intended to be used, see WP:Template namespace. For information on template use and development, see Help:Template.
Below is a selection of welcome messages. A complete list, with most being slight variations of these, can be found at Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates. For cut-and-paste welcome messages, see Wikipedia:Standard user greeting. For more about the Welcoming Committee and how you can help, see Wikipedia:Welcoming committee .
Your user pages and your sandbox. How to experiment and edit in your user space. Mentoring program. Request help in your first steps of editing. How to start a page. Help on creating your first article. Things to avoid. How to avoid common errors and mistakes. Style Guide. How to write in an acceptable style. Main policies of Wikipedia.
Numerous welcome templates have long had a link to Help:Your first article, namely these 17 templates. It's pretty much acknowledged that writing an article is an advanced task for experienced editors (per Wikipedia:Task Center, and frequent comments at the WP:Reference desk WP:Help desk, or WP:Tea house ).
This category contains pages in the template namespace. It should not be used to categorize articles or pages in other namespaces. To add a template to this category: If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template: template name /doc"), add. [[Category:Welcome templates]]
It will be inserted into the greeting before "Good luck, and have fun." To add a (level-2) heading above the box, use: {{subst:Welcome screen|heading= text }} The heading will be titled as what you replace text with. To make the template transparent, for use on custom-designed talk pages with built-in formatting, use: {{subst:Welcome screen ...