Template:W-cust

Welcome...

Hello, W-cust, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• Introduction
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• 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 place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! ~~~~

P.S.: Some pages you might like to check out are:

• Help:Getting started – main welcome page.
• Wikipedia:Introduction – Wikipedia introduction page.
• Wikipedia:Tutorial – Wikipedia editing tutorial.
• Wikipedia:Questions – the "where to ask questions" directory.
• Wikipedia:FAQ – quick answers to the most common questions.
• Wikipedia:Questions – a place for new users to post questions and get answers by volunteers who monitor or frequent the page.
• Wikipedia:Help desk – where volunteers answer questions on how to use Wikipedia. Many new users go there for help too.
• Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user – where a new user can be adopted by an experienced user who will be their mentor.
• Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual – Thorough and intuitive guide to Wikipedia.

Tip of the day...

How to search Wikipedia with Google/Bing

To limit Google or Bing searches to the English Wikipedia, include this in your search string: site:en.wikipedia.org.

You can even do a Google search of Wikipedia from Wikipedia's own search box! For example, to use Google to search for pages with "geology" in the title, type this into WP's search box: google:geology+site:en.wikipedia.org

This link does the same thing: google:geology+site:en.wikipedia.org.

Another way is to use Google's or Bing's advanced settings. (To get there from Google's or Bing's search page, click on the gear icon).

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Read more:

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Become a Wikipedia tipster

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}

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Usage

Parameters

• |border Adds a small border around main message. Default is blue, but other colors can be specified.
• |noheading Default: a heading is added. Suppress with |noheading=y
  • |headtext Default: "Welcome..."
• |cookies Adds an image of a plate of cookies to the right
• |contribs Off by default. Thanks the user for their contribs (linked)
  • |art If you want to say especially to this article
• |npov Off by default. If the user has violated NPOV, gently tell them why.
  • |article Article on which NPOV has been transgressed.
• |icons Make the first few links icons
• |anon Suggest (for anons) getting an account
• |1 An extra message to appear after your signature and before the post-script message
• |nosig Suppress automatic signature

Notes

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