Welcome!
Hello Example! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.
You are welcome to edit without logging in; however, creating an account is free and has several benefits (for example, the ability to create pages and upload media).
As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:
If you have any questions, ; a volunteer will visit you here shortly!
Happy editing!
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 | This template should always be substituted – use {{subst:Welcome-unregistered}}. Any accidental transclusions will be automatically substituted by a bot. |
To use this template, add
{{subst:Welcome-unregistered}}~~~~
to the user's talk page.
Redirects
Alternative names for this template (redirects) include {{Anon}}, {{Anonymous}} and (many variants of) {{Create an account}}, {{Welcome-ip}}, etc.
For related templates, see #See also below.
Parameters
All of these parameters are optional:
|cookie=y– adds an image of cookies:{{subst:Welcome|cookie=y}}|heading=no– Suppress the automatic heading:{{subst:Welcome|heading=no}}|headtext=Greetings!– Change the contents of the heading:{{subst:Welcome|headtext=Greetings!}}|1=for a custom additional message to replace "Happy editing!":{{subst:Welcome-unregistered|1=I enjoy your work. Keep it up!}}~~~~
|art=name an article to which the anon user contributed in a positive way:{{subst:Welcome-unregistered|art=Radar detector}}~~~~
TemplateData
TemplateData for Welcome-unregistered
A generic welcome template for anonymous users (temporary accounts). Must be substituted.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Additional message | 1 | Additional message that replaces the default test
| String | optional |
| Name of temporary account user | ipname | The name of the person/audience behind the temporary account, if known. | String | optional |
| Linked article | art | Article at which the user has made positive contributions | Page name | suggested |
| Do not thank | nothanks | Do not thank for edits that are not helpful (though well-intentioned)
| Boolean | deprecated |
| Do not link to poster's talk | notalk | Do not link back to poster's talk page
| Boolean | deprecated |
| heading | heading | Suppresses the automatic heading | Unknown | optional |
| heading text | headtext | Changes the contents of the heading
| String | optional |
| cookie | cookie | Adds a picture of cookies
| Unknown | optional |
| new user | newuser | Uses alternate text not linking to the editor's contributions
| Unknown | optional |
Notes
- Find subst count and examples of this template on User talk pages using this advanced search.[2026; 2025; 2024] (Patience; this may take a while.)
See also
- {{Thanks}}
- {{Welcome-unregistered-constructive}} – have helped in vandal fighting and have made constructive edits
- {{Welcome-temp-npov}}
- {{Welcome-temp-suboptimal}} – have made edits that were clearly intended to be constructive, but had to be reverted for some reason
- {{welcome-temp-summary}} – have made constructive edits, but forgot to use an edit summary
- {{Welcome-unregistered-test}} – seem to have made a test edit
- {{Welcome-unregistered-unconstructive}} – have vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted
- {{Welcome-unregistered-unsourced}}
- {{Welcome-temp-vandalism-fighter}}
- {{Welcome-belated}}, have been around for a while, but haven't received a welcome
- {{W-graphical-temp}} – encourages getting a username, based on graphical welcome template
- Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates