Template:W-cust/sandbox

Welcome...

Hello, W-cust, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• Introduction
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help
• How to write a great article
• Simplified Manual of Style

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! ~~~~

P.S.: Some pages you might like to check out are:

• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia – main welcome page.
• Wikipedia:Introduction – Wikipedia introduction page.
• Wikipedia:Tutorial – Wikipedia editing tutorial.
• Wikipedia:Questions – the "where to ask questions" directory.
• Wikipedia:FAQ – quick answers to the most common questions.
• Wikipedia:Questions – a place for new users to post questions and get answers by volunteers who monitor or frequent the page.
• Wikipedia:Help desk – where volunteers answer questions on how to use Wikipedia. Many new users go there for help too.
• Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user – where a new user can be adopted by an experienced user who will be their mentor.
• Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual – Thorough and intuitive guide to Wikipedia.

Tip of the day...

Advanced signatures

It is good Wikiquette to sign your messages on talk pages. This is done by typing ~~~~ (four tildes). Do not sign article pages.

Some users have fancy signatures with lots of colors and links. Here are 3 different ways to do that:

1. Edit directly in the signature box
   1. Go to your Preferences and type some wiki-markup code (and/or HTML markup code) into the signature box to augment your stock signature
   2. Check the box that says "Treat the above as Wiki markup"
   3. Press the "Save" button. Or...
2. Use an HTML editor
   1. Open an HTML editor (e.g. Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web)
   2. Design how you want your signature to look, putting links in it by adding brackets [[ ]]
   3. Select it and click the HTML tab and copy the code of your text into the signature box mentioned above.
   4. Be sure not to copy the tags at the beginning and end of the code that say <p> </p>. Or...
3. Adapt someone else's signature
   1. Find a signature you like
   2. Click edit this page
   3. Copy and paste the signature into your signature box (see #1 above), but change all the links to your links: you do not want your signature leading to someone else's user page!

Do not use images, templates, or external links in your signature. Please ensure your custom signature complies with the relevant guideline. Use special code for displayed pipe character.

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Read more:

Wikipedia:Signatures  

Signature tutorial  

Become a Wikipedia tipster

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Usage

Parameters

• |border Adds a small border around main message. Default is blue, but other colors can be specified.
• |noheading Default: a heading is added. Suppress with |noheading=y
  • |headtext Default: "Welcome..."
• |cookies Adds an image of a plate of cookies to the right
• |contribs Off by default. Thanks the user for their contribs (linked)
  • |art If you want to say especially to this article
• |npov Off by default. If the user has violated NPOV, gently tell them why.
  • |article Article on which NPOV has been transgressed.
• |icons Make the first few links icons
• |anon Suggest (for anons) getting an account
• |1 An extra message to appear after your signature and before the post-script message
• |nosig Suppress automatic signature

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:W-cust/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
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