Template:Welcome-retro/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Welcome-retro.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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This template is substituted very frequently, so changes to it will be widely noticed. Please test any changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Please consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This is the old version of the standard welcome template, as it existed before a new version was adopted in April 2020 following a discussion at the village pump.

Usage

Add {{subst:Welcome-retro}} ~~~~ to the user's talk page.

Parameters:

|1=Sender – The username of the person sending the message. Used for a link to your talk page.
|art=Article title – Article to which the user contributed positively: {{subst:Welcome-retro|art=Radar detector}}
|heading=no – Suppress the automatic heading: {{subst:Welcome-retro|heading=no}}
|headtext=Greetings! – Change the contents of the heading: {{subst:Welcome-retro|headtext=Greetings!}}
|newuser=y – drops "Thanks for your contributions" from first paragraph. (alias: |nothanks=y)

Briefer

Use {{subst:Welcome}} for a briefer message with big buttons instead of policy links.

For anonymous editors

For anonymous (IP) editors, use Use {{subst:Welcome-anon}} for the standard message, or Use {{subst:Welcome-anon-retro}} for a retro style like this one.

Usage

Briefer

For anonymous editors

See also