ଛାଞ୍ଚ:W-basic/doc

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This ଛାଞ୍ଚ employs intricate features of template syntax.

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either , the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here.

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Usage

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-basic}}

Instructions

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

{{subst:W-basic|message}}

Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Again, welcome!"

To add an additional message specific to anonymous users which recommends creating an account, use:

{{subst:W-basic|anon=true}}

To add an additional message about Wikipedia's NPOV policy, use:

{{subst:W-basic|npov=true}}

To link to a specific article in regards to the NPOV problem, use:

{{subst:W-basic|npov=true|article=article}}

To add a border, use:

{{subst:W-basic|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 add a picture of a plate of cookies, use:

{{subst:W-basic|cookies=true}}

To add icons next to each of the bulleted links, use:

{{subst:W-basic|icons=true}}

To add a heading to the greeting (changes "Welcome..." to a level-2 heading), use:

{{subst:W-basic|heading=true}}

To change the wording of the heading, use:

{{subst:W-basic|headtext=your text}}

Replace your text with type in the text you want to replace "Welcome..." with.

To follow this template with another message, use:

{{subst:W-basic|nosig=true}}

This option takes out "Again, welcome!" and your signature.

The above options can be combined:

{{subst:W-basic|Wikipedia is cool.|border=DarkOrchid|heading=true|headtext=Bienvenido}}

Usage

Instructions

See also