Template:Welcome-suboptimal
Welcome!
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!
Thank you for contributing edits that were made in good faith, but have been deemed to not contribute positively to the article, and thus been reverted. You are welcome to discuss it in the article talk page. Also, you can experiment with your edits in the sandbox or seek advice (see below).
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Purpose
[edit]This template is similar to Template:Welcome-unconstructive, in that it's there to welcome users whose (non-vandalism) edits have been reverted. However, this template is oriented towards contributions that were clearly intended to be constructive, but were removed.
Examples:
- A user adds information to an article, but the same information is already present (in different wording) elsewhere in the article.
- A user makes a contribution that violates policy or convention in a minor way, and is clearly just a flawed attempt to improve the article.
Usage
[edit]To use this template, add {{subst:Welcome-suboptimal}} to the user's talk page.
Parameters:
- The relevant page:
{{subst:Welcome-suboptimal|Article}}identifies the article where the suboptimal contribution occurred. - Your user name:
{{subst:Welcome-suboptimal|Article|Username}}adds a link to your talk page in the welcome message. - If notitle is set, for example notitle=yes, then the "Welcome" title is not displayed.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]Find subst count and examples of this template on User talk pages using this advanced search.[2026; 2025; 2024] (Note: only finds placements after July 2026.)