Template:Welcome-joke

Hello, Welcome-joke! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits. Readers looking for serious articles will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write (almost) whatever you want. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! ~~~~ Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image •The missing manual Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost, our newspaper • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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Instructions

• Usage: {{subst:welcome-joke}}

Parameters

• |name=<Your username> will customise links pointing to the talk page of the user inserting the template.

• e.g. {{subst:welcome-joke|User}} or {{subst:welcome-joke|name=User}} will point talk links to User.

About this template

Created by ElectricEye and tweaked by Kingturtle.

This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopaedic content.