Template:Welcome award
Welcome!
Hello, Welcome award, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I am pleased to present you with your very first service award, in recognition of becoming a Wikipedia contributor.
I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that may help you to get up to speed:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page
- How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
- Simplified Manual of Style
- The Signpost, our newspaper.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or .
Again, welcome!
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Usage
Add {{subst:Welcome award}} ~~~~ to the user's talk page.
Parameters (not required):
- First parameter = your name:
{{subst:Welcome award|Myname}} - Parameter 'art' = Article the user positively contributed to:
{{subst:Welcome award|art=Radar detector}}
Be sure to remember to add your signature ( ~~~~ ) after the template, as the text refers to 'my talk page'.
Historical notes
Originally this template used {{User other}} to identify users (not template pages or other listings) to add the welcomed Wikipedian to Category:Wikipedia Signators.
A 2011 deletion discussion of all ranked user categories suggested grouping Wikipedians by arbitrary "ranks" was unproductive; hence the category was deleted.
It has been removed for now with the understanding that consensus can change and this can be added back in.