User:Audacity/Velcome
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Hello {{SUBST:PAGENAME}}, and Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed your edit(s) to $ARTICLE, and thought I'd officially welcome you. My name is Dan, a.k.a. Audacity. I hope you like our encyclopedia project and decide to stay.
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;Anon
Hello {{SUBST:PAGENAME}}, and Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed your edit(s) to $ARTICLE, and thought I'd officially welcome you. My name is Dan, a.k.a. Audacity. I hope you like our encyclopedia project and decide to stay.
Here are a few good links for newcomers:
- Introduction
- Getting started
- How to edit a page
- Tutorial
- Help pages
- Developing an article
- The Manual of Style
- Wikipedia's Missing Manual
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First, Welcome to Wikipedia, {{SUBST:PAGENAME}}! I noticed your edit(s) to [$ARTICLE]], and thought I'd officially welcome you. My name is Dan, a.k.a. Audacity. I hope you like our encyclopedia project and decide to stay.
Here are a few good links for newcomers:
- Introduction
- Getting started
- How to edit a page
- Tutorial
- Help pages
- Developing an article
- The Manual of Style
- Wikipedia's Missing Manual
Some other hints and tips:
- Since you have created a username, you have the privilege of customizing your own user page, which is here. You can also tell us more about yourself at Wikipedia:New user log.
- When using talk pages, please sign your name at the end of your messages by typing four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically produce your username and the date.
- Always fill in the edit summary field, unless you are making a minor edit, in which case you should mark it as such.
- If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place
{{helpme}}
on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.
Second, ...
Thanks for contributing, and I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedian. ~~~~
;Advanced user
Dear {{SUBST:PAGENAME}},
Look like you have not yet been officially welcomed to Wikipedia, so let me be the first to say Welcome!
Dear {{SUBST:PAGENAME}},
Look like you have not yet been officially welcomed, so let me be the first to say Welcome to Wikipedia!
You may or may not have already come across these pages, which are worth reading:
- Introduction
- Developing an article
- The Manual of Style
- Etiquette
- Wikipedia's Missing Manual
- Wikipedian slang glossary
Please feel free to ask me any questions whatsoever. And have fun! ~~~~
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- Always fill in the edit summary field, unless you are making a minor edit, in which case you should mark it as such.