User:Matty.007/template/Welcome templates

 Hello, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction. Please bear in mind that everyone on Wikipedia is a person, except for the bots, who should be clearly identified; even I am a person! As such, please treat us all with respect.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page – I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page, or ask at the the Teahouse, a collection of experienced editors.

--- Here are some more resources to help you as you explore and contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia...

Finding your way around:


 * Table of contents


 * Department directory

Need help?


 * Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
 * Cheatsheet – quick reference on Wikipedia's mark-up codes
 * Wikipedia's 5 pillars – an overview of Wikipedia's foundations
 * The Teahouse - a good place to ask questions, your queries will be answered by an experienced editor
 * Adopt-a-user - consider getting adopted, that is, getting an experienced editor to help you around


 * Article wizard – a guide to help you create articles
 * The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
 * Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia
 * The step by step way to edit - a guide on how to edit, starting with the very basics
 * Develop an article - help an article go from a stub class article to something more

How you can help:


 * Contributing to Wikipedia – a guide on how you can help


 * Community portal – Wikipedia's hub of activity

Getting started:


 * Requested articles - a list of articles requested by other users
 * FAQs - a list of questions that many new editors have before they start to edit
 * The perfect article - a list of things which the perfect Wikipedia article contains


 * Tips - a list of links to important pages about starting editing
 * A tutorial - another guide on how to edit

Additional tips...


 * Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes ( ~ ). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The [[File:Button sig.png]] or [[File:Insert-signature.png]] button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.


 * The Sandbox is useful if you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills. You have your own, personal one, located here, where you can create article drafts





, good luck, and have fun. –