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Below is a selection of welcome messages. A complete list, with most being slight variations of these, can be found at Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates. For cut-and-paste welcome messages, see Wikipedia:Standard user greeting. For more about the Welcoming Committee and how you can help, see Wikipedia:Welcoming committee .
Shortcuts. WP:WT. WP:WC/WT. This is a list of templates available for greeting new users. Anyone may use these templates for greeting a new user on their Talk page. For a display of the various basic designs, see Wikipedia:Welcome template table .
You can go to Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates for a full list of welcome templates, or to Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates/Table for a visual gallery of welcome messages. There is no standard template, but the most commonly used are { { subst:Welcome }}, { { subst:W-basic }} and { { subst:W-graphical }}.
Numerous welcome templates have long had a link to Help:Your first article, namely these 17 templates. It's pretty much acknowledged that writing an article is an advanced task for experienced editors (per Wikipedia:Task Center, and frequent comments at the WP:Reference desk WP:Help desk, or WP:Tea house ).
To use this template, add {{subst:Welcome-m|message}} ~~~~ to the user's talk page. The message can be whatever you like. The message can be whatever you like. Use this template for a personalized welcome message, or a friendly way to make wiki warnings while welcoming someone at the same time.
An extra message can be appended to the header message. If desired, include your message as the first parameter, using a pipe (|) separator following the template name. If your added message includes any equal signs (=), each one must be wrapped in doubled braces, as in {{=}}.
Hello, Welcome cookie, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages you might find helpful. For a user-friendly interactive help forum see the Wikipedia Teahouse. and check out the Task Center, for ideas about what to work on. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!
Hello, Non-English welcome messages, and welcome to Wikipedia! While efforts to improve Wikipedia are always welcome, unfortunately your contributions are not written in English that is good enough to be useful. You appear to be more familiar with Japanese; did you know there is a Japanese Wikipedia? You may prefer to contribute there instead.