Template:W-informal/sandbox

Welcome!

Hello, W-informal, and welcome to Wikipedia! This is one of the most popular websites in the world, and it's only through the contributions of editors like you. And Wikipedia is not just a collection of articles, it's an active community. The real fun here is contributing to Wikipedia, but don't feel hurt if some of your first few edits get removed, as there are some central guidelines you may not be familiar with.

Some good advice: be bold in your editing, and use the talk pages to discuss with other editors. Be kind to others, because there's a lot you can learn from them, and there's lots they can help you with.

There's lots of resources to help you become a great editor, from our basic introduction to our in-depth manual. But if you have any questions or problems, no matter what they are, leave me a message on my talk page. Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. And if you haven't done so, tell us a bit about yourself. If you need some help, visit the Teahouse Q&A board. Oh, and please sign your name on talk pages and votes by typing ~~~~; our software automatically converts it to your username and the date.

Glad you're here! ~~~~

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Custom signatures

Signatures in Wikipedia are identifying information that you put after writing a comment on a talk page. They tell other editors who wrote the comment and when. This can be done by writing ~~~~.

Signatures can optionally be spruced up with colors. To add color to your signature, go to the Preferences link at the top of the page. In the nickname box, enter [[User:MYUSERNAME|<font color="MYCOLOR">MYUSERNAME</font>]]. Replace "MYCOLOR" with a color you like, such as "red" or "green". Replace MYUSERNAME with your username. Finally, check the "raw signature" box, and save your preferences. Now, when you type four tildes ~~~~ in a talk page, your new signature will appear.

The color names that can be used in standard HTML are given in the standards document here. Using the hexadecimal RGB-style colors (such as #008000) you can choose any color you like from about sixteen million, not just the 140 colors that have names in standard HTML.

More complex signatures are possible; however, your signature as typed into the box above should not be unnecessarily long. Long signatures make pages larger and harder to edit, and are discouraged.

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Read more:

Wikipedia:Signatures  

Signature tutorial  

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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}

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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:

{{subst:W-informal/sandbox}}

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

{{subst:W-informal/sandbox|message}}

Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "We're so glad you're here!"

• To add a border, use:

{{subst:W-informal/sandbox|border=color}}

Replace color with the name or code of the color you'd like to use. This can be in either named (e.g., DarkOrchid) or hexadecimal (e.g., #9932CC) format. For a list of colors, see web colors.

• To change the opening to a (level-2) heading, use:

{{subst:W-informal/sandbox|heading=true}}

• To change the wording of the heading, use:

{{subst:W-informal/sandbox|headtext=your text}}

Replace your text with the text you want to appear in the heading.

• The above options can be combined:

{{subst:W-informal/sandbox|Wikipedia is far better than Britannica.|border=DarkOrchid|heading=true|headtext=Welcome to Wikipedia}}

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:W-informal/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
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