Template:Welcome-anon2

Hello Welcome-anon2, and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia! Thank you for your changes. You are welcome to continue changing articles without logging in, but you may wish to create an account. Doing so is free, requires no personal information, and has several benefits, such as a username of your choice and your own user page. If you edit without a username, your IP address (Welcome-anon2) will be used.

Either way, I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will show your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the change summary. Below are some pages to help you get started.

Happy editing! ~~~~

Getting started
Introduction The five pillars of Wikipedia Rules Links to useful pages How to write Simple English articles Manual of Style

Getting help
Help How to copy from another Wikipedia Requested pages Simple Talk - a place to talk to other Wikipedians Administrators' noticeboard - a place to get help from our admins. ...and last, be bold when making changes!

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This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Welcome-anon2}}).

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This template employs intricate features of template syntax.

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.

Instructions

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:anon2}}

To add a message in an additional paragraph before the last sentence, use:

{{subst:anon2|message}}

Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Happy editing!"

To add a (level-2) heading above the greeting, use:

{{subst:anon2|heading=heading text}}

The heading will be the text you replace your text with.

To change the color of the entire message, use:

{{subst:anon2|color=color}}

Replace color with one of the following choices (the default is navy blue and orange, shown above):

cyan
pink

The above options can be combined:

{{subst:anon2|Wikipedia is amazing.|heading=true|headtext=Welcome to Wikipedia}}

Related pages

{{Anon}} -- plain-text version.

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