Template:Welcome-retro
Welcome!
Hello, Example, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
- Introduction and Getting started
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page and How to develop articles
- How to create your first article
- Simplified Manual of Style
- How to avoid a conflict of interest
You may also want to complete the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit the Teahouse to ask questions or seek help. Need some ideas about what kind of things need doing? Try the Task Center.
Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date.
Help is available: check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome!
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A text-based welcome message for new users, which presents nine links in seven bullets to help them get started with Wikipedia. This is similar to an old version of the standard welcome template, before buttons were introduced there.
Usage
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Add {{subst:Welcome-retro}} ~~~~ to the user's talk page.
Parameters
There are seven parameters, all optional:
|1=Sender– The username of the person sending the message. Used for a link to your talk page.|art=Article title– Article to which the user contributed positively:{{subst:Welcome-retro|art=Radar detector}}|heading=no– Suppress the automatic heading:{{subst:Welcome-retro|heading=no}}|headtext=Greetings!– Change the contents of the heading:{{subst:Welcome-retro|headtext=Greetings!}}|newuser=y– drops "Thanks for your contributions" from first paragraph. (alias:|nothanks=y)|customend=– Adds a custom ending to replace "Again, welcome!"|project=– adds a suggestion that they consider joining a WikiProject; e.g.,Aviation,France,Geography,Women in Red, etc.; the suggestion is placed after the words "Task center" (default: no project suggestion) find a WikiProject
Briefer
Use {{subst:Welcome}} for a briefer message with big buttons instead of policy links.
For unregistered editors
Unregistered editors may be welcomed; they receive a temporary account which identifies their contributions without disclosing their IP address. A standard, button-based welcome is at {{subst:Welcome-unregistered}}, or you can use {{subst:Welcome-temp-retro}} for a retro style template more like this one.
Notes
- Find subst count and examples of this template on User talk pages using this advanced search.[2026; 2025; 2024]
See also
- {{Welcome-temp-retro}}, like this, but for temp account (unregistered) users
- {{Welcome}}, the standard welcome template
- {{Welcome mentee}}, for users enrolled in the WP:Mentorship program
- Wikipedia:Welcome templates
- {{Register}}
- {{Introductory article}}
TemplateData
TemplateData for Welcome-retro
A generic welcome template for registered users. Must be substituted.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heading | headtext | Changes the contents of the heading above the message
| String | optional |
| Sender | 1 | Username of the person sending the message (you); used for a link to your talk page | User | optional |
| suppress heading | heading | Suppress the heading automatically generated by the template
| String | optional |
| Linked article | art | Article at which the user has made positive contributions | Page name | suggested |
| WikiProject | project | Name of a WikiProject; will add an invitation to join the WikiProject to the welcome message
| String | optional |
| Do not thank | nothanks newuser | Do not thank for edits that are not helpful (though well-intentioned)
| String | optional |
| Additional text | customend | Additional text at the end of the message that replaces the default
| String | optional |