Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Standard user greeting

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Below are some sample greetings that you can cut-and-paste onto new users' talk pages. Replace any $VARIABLES with the correct text. Be sure to place greetings on each user's talk page, and not the user's user page, so that the user will get the "You have new messages" alert notice.

One can also use templates for the same purpose.

Standard welcome
To use this standard message

Copy and paste the text below:

The former allows you to tailor the message before saving it, but if all you want is the standard message then you can use template:welcome by cut and pasting:

Text without a section heading:

Text with a section heading:

Request for introduction
Request for introduction:

Copy and paste the text below:

Anonymous users
Anonymous users:

Copy and paste the text below:

See also (the standard welcome with an extra paragraph for anon users):

Images
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Text
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Tips
This is a list of suggested tips that can be added to any of the above messages:


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 * Remember to use the Show preview button before you save.


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