Template:W-basic
Welcome...
Hello, W-basic, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:
- Introduction
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Tutorials and editing suggestions
- Help
- How to write a great article
- Simplified Manual of Style
Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or . Again, welcome! ~~~~
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Usage
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-basic}}Instructions
- To add a message in an additional paragraph before the last sentence, use:
{{subst:W-basic|message}}- Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Again, welcome!"
- To add an additional message specific to anonymous users which recommends creating an account, use:
{{subst:W-basic|anon=true}}- To add an additional message about Wikipedia's NPOV policy, use:
{{subst:W-basic|npov=true}}- To link to a specific article in regards to the NPOV problem, use:
{{subst:W-basic|npov=true|article=article}}- To add a border, use:
{{subst:W-basic|border=color}}- Replace color with the name or code of the color you'd like to use. This can be in either named (e.g.,
DarkOrchid) or hexadecimal (e.g.,#9932CC) format. For a list of colors, see web colors.
- To add a picture of a plate of cookies, use:
{{subst:W-basic|cookies=true}}- To add icons next to each of the bulleted links, use:
{{subst:W-basic|icons=true}}- To add a heading to the greeting (changes "Welcome..." to a level-2 heading), use:
{{subst:W-basic|heading=true}}- To change the wording of the heading, use:
{{subst:W-basic|headtext=your text}}- Replace your text with type in the text you want to replace "Welcome..." with.
- To follow this template with another message, use:
{{subst:W-basic|nosig=true}}- This option takes out "Again, welcome!" and your signature.
- The above options can be combined:
{{subst:W-basic|Wikipedia is cool.|border=DarkOrchid|heading=true|headtext=Bienvenido}}See also
Notes
Find subst count and examples of this template on User talk pages using this advanced search.[2026; 2025; 2024] (Patience; this may take a while.)