User:P.B. Pilhet/My Templates/WelcomeHTG

 Welcome to Wikipedia !

Hey there, , and welcome to our great encyclopedia, which currently has more than articles! Even with this large number, all of your contributions are important (including the small ones), and I hope you like the place and decide to stay! Here's a few starting tips for you:


 * You might want to check out the welcome page.
 * Then you can have a look at our guidelines.
 * After that, you can see here for a cheatsheet on editing pages (for a bigger list, see here).

After reading all this (or even just glimpsing at it), I can understand that you might feel apprehensive about editing and contributing articles, for fear of making a mistake. But don't worry too much about mistakes; after all, you're new. Instead, everyone here encourages you to be bold! If you need help with anything, feel free to [ leave me a message], or you can put  on your talk page, and someone will show up shortly to give you a hand.

One last thing: when leaving a message on someone's talk page, don't forget to put four "tildes" (~) to automatically sign your name.

Happy Editing! --

P.S. -- Wikipedia is not a how-to-guide, so please don't create articles like .

NOTE: This template is not formated for users other than myself (P.B. Pilhet). The "leave me a message" link automatically connects to my talk page, and not anyone else's, so please do not attempt to use this template.