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Welcome!
Hello, Welcome!, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- Introduction
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- How to write a great article
- Simplified Manual of Style
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ~~~~, which will automatically produce your name and the date.
If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or . Again, welcome!
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Instructions
[edit]To send this greeting to a new user, simply place {{subst:Welcome!}} on the new user's talk page. Nothing else is needed, as the template itself includes your signature. If the new user made good contributions to one article in particular, you can use {{subst:Welcome!|article=Banana}}.
You can link the phrase "my talk page" to your talk page by passing in a from parameter. For example, {{subst:Welcome!|from=MY_USER_NAME}} causes "my talk page" to become a link to User_talk:MY_USER_NAME.