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:I've 'subst'ed the <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> variable, as I noticed that even when using [[:Template:Welcome|<nowiki>{{subst:welcome}}</nowiki>]], they still showed up as the confusing <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki>, which also made it clear they were being 'templated'. If this causes any obvious problems, revert it, and let me know. [[User:Gruenberg2|<font color="green">Gruen</font>]][[User_talk:Gruenberg2|<font color="red">2alk</font>]] 02:08, 3 December 2005 (GMT) | :I've 'subst'ed the <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> variable, as I noticed that even when using [[:Template:Welcome|<nowiki>{{subst:welcome}}</nowiki>]], they still showed up as the confusing <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki>, which also made it clear they were being 'templated'. If this causes any obvious problems, revert it, and let me know. [[User:Gruenberg2|<font color="green">Gruen</font>]][[User_talk:Gruenberg2|<font color="red">2alk</font>]] 02:08, 3 December 2005 (GMT) | ||
| + | ::Yeah that didn't work. Sorry. [[User:Gruenberg2|<font color="green">Gruen</font>]][[User_talk:Gruenberg2|<font color="red">2alk</font>]] 02:12, 3 December 2005 (GMT) | ||
| + | :::I was browsing the MediaWiki site, and found something to help this. All I had to do was stick a <nowiki>subst:</nowiki> inside includeonly tags. [[User:Ceorana|''C''eoran]]<sub>[[User talk:Ceorana|'''''<span style="color:red">t</span>''''']]</sub>[[User:Ceorana|a]] 05:09, 5 August 2006 (GMT) | ||
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The welcome message is designed as a quick reference quide for newly registered NSwiki users. For editors identified only by their IP address, it is usually better to use {{subst:anon}} or one of the other Template messages.
A quick way to identify a new user is that both their User page and Talk page show up as red links. If you want to volunteer to help out new users, feel free to add {{subst:welcome}} ~~~~ to their talk page. You should always sign the Welcome message with ~~~~, so that new users have an obvious place for questions. You might also want to customise your sig to give quick and easy access to your own Talk page.
Technical: When you use {{subst:welcome}} instead of just {{welcome}}, it will copy the wikicode of current version of the template to the user page like you had typed it in directly - thus the source is hidden and less confusing. -- Frisbeeteria Θtalk
- I've 'subst'ed the {{PAGENAME}} variable, as I noticed that even when using {{subst:welcome}}, they still showed up as the confusing {{PAGENAME}}, which also made it clear they were being 'templated'. If this causes any obvious problems, revert it, and let me know. Gruen2alk 02:08, 3 December 2005 (GMT)
