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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.
Welcome-unregistered → standard, 4 button message: Create acct, Learn editing, Tea house, Task Center (alias: {{Welcome-anon}}). Welcome-unregistered-retro → a classic version , with 4 bulletized policy links (incl. C), and 4 benefits of registering.
If the new user responds to the welcome message on your talk page, follow up with more help. You may wish to suggest adoption. Most welcome templates instruct users to place a {} request on their talk page if they need assistance, so it may be beneficial to check Category:Wikipedians looking for help frequently.
<noinclude>[[Category:Welcome templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character. If you want to use your own custom welcome templates, categorize them as:
This is a welcome template intended for users who have created a draft article (and/or submitted one to Articles for creation) in good faith. The message links to resources that newer users who already have some experience in editing drafts would find helpful.
The challenge that I can imagine is that I could see some editors wanting all templates to autosign because it allows signatures within the box/other formatting things (see, for instance, {}, one of my favorite welcome templates) whereas others not wanting autosign to align with user warnings. That could lead to a lack of consensus.
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The standard template to welcome new editors. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status heading heading Suppresses the automatic heading Unknown optional Heading text headtext Changes the contents of the heading Default Welcome! String optional border border Adds a border around the message in a specified color or hex triplet Example DarkViolet, #9400D3 String ...