Template:Welcome SLR
Hello Welcome SLR, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our Introduction contains a lot of helpful material for new users - please check it out! If you need general help, check out Wikipedia:Questions or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.
I noticed that you showed an interest in Sri Lanka related articles. Please take a look at WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation, a bipartisan effort to improve collaboration on and coverage of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Among other things, we collected a number of recommendations for getting your point across while keeping out of trouble. We're here to help! In any event, we invite you to leave us a message on our talk page.
Happy editing!
About this template[edit]
This template has been created as part of WP:SLR.
Usage[edit]
Use one of the following:
| What to type | What it makes |
|---|---|
| {{subst:Welcome SLR}} | writes message as it appears on this page |
| {{subst:Welcome SLR|~~~~}} | Recommended - adds your signature. (Special case of next row.) |
| {{subst:Welcome SLR|text=more text}} | Replaces the default greeting "Happy editing!" with the indicated text. Don't forget to add your signature! |
| {{subst:Welcome SLR|~~~~|name=new user's first name}} | allows a more personal message when the new user has a signature like "JohnDoe123" |
| {{subst:Welcome SLR|text=more text|name=new user's first name}} | same as above with alternative text |
| {{subst:Welcome SLR|~~~|name=-}} | writes message without a name (useful for IP accounts when you don't wan't to call a person "123.234.56.78") |
| {{subst:Welcome SLR|~~~~|intro=-}} | Leaves out the first paragraph. This way, the template can be used for established editors, as well. |
Other combinations of the parameters should work, but have not been tested. (There is also a parameter forcelink which I use in the project page itself so it doesn't do the automatic bolding.)