Template:W-shout
Welcome!(We can't say that loudly enough!)
Hello, W-shout, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:
- Be Bold!
- Learn from others
- Be kind to others
- Contribute, Contribute, Contribute!
- Tell us a bit about yourself
- Our great guide to Wikipedia
- Tutorials and editing suggestions
If you have any questions or problems, no matter what they are, leave me a message on my talk page. Or, please come to the Help desk, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{Help me}} on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.
Please sign your name on talk pages and votes by typing four tildes (~~~~); our software automatically converts it to your username and the date. We're so glad you're here! ~~~~
Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]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:W-shout}}
- To add a message in an additional paragraph before the last sentence, use:
{{subst:W-shout|message}}
- Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "We're so glad you're here!"
- To add a border, use:
{{subst:W-shout|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 change the opening to a (level-2) heading, use:
{{subst:W-shout|heading=true}}
- To change the wording of the heading, use:
{{subst:W-shout|headtext=your text}}
- Replace your text with the text you want to appear in the heading.
- The above options can be combined:
{{subst:W-shout|Wikipedia is far better than Britannica.|border=DarkOrchid|heading=true|headtext=Welcome to Wikipedia}}