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This is a draft of a template that was developed via the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Harassment/Archive 10#A process at account registration. There has been further discussion at the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey and Phabricator T157848. If the proposed process is implemented, then this template is to be used as part of that process. It is intended to be placed automatically on the user talk pages of new accounts that answer "yes" to the question "Do you expect to edit Wikipedia for business or promotional purposes?".
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- Wikipedia:Welcome templates
- {{Welcome-COI}}
- {{Welcome-COI-acc}}
- {{Uw-coi}}