Template:W-graphical-anon

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Instructions

• To greet a user with this template just as it appears above (your signature will automatically replace the ~~~~), place the following wikicode on the user's talk page:

• To add a message in an additional paragraph before the last sentence, use:

Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Happy editing!"

• To add a (level-2) heading above the greeting, use:

The heading will be the text you replace your text with.

• To change the color of the entire message, use:

Replace color with one of the following choices (the default is navy blue and orange, shown above):

1. cyan
2. pink

• The above options can be combined:

See also

• {{Thanks}}
• {{Welcome-anon}} – encourages getting a username
• {{Welcome-anon-constructive}} – have helped in vandal fighting and have made constructive edits
• {{Welcome-anon-npov}}
• {{Welcome-anon-suboptimal}} – have made edits that were clearly intended to be constructive, but had to be reverted for some reason
• {{welcome-anon-summary}} – have made constructive edits, but forgot to use an edit summary
• {{Welcome-anon-test}} – seem to have made a test edit
• {{Welcome-anon-unconstructive}} – have vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted
• {{Welcome-anon-unsourced}}
• {{Welcome-anon-vandalism-fighter}}
• {{Welcome-t-anon}} – like {{Welcome-anon}} with a link to the Teahouse
• {{Welcome-anon-t}} – alternate version of {{welcome-t-anon}}
• {{W-graphical-anon}} – encourages getting a username, based on graphical welcome template
• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates