Warcraft Wiki:Welcoming

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This page is considered a guideline on Warcraft Wiki. It illustrates standards of conduct, which many editors agree with in principle. However, it is not policy. Feel free to update the page as needed, but please use the voting process and put the vote on the discussion page to propose any major changes. See the Guidelines home page for an overview of Warcraft Wiki guidelines. See Category:Guidelines for a list of proposed and accepted guideline articles.

All new members of Warcraft Wiki should be Welcomed to make sure they know what to do and where to go when they join. If you are new, please look away if you do not want the magic to be ruined, as welcomes are not generally personal.

What a Welcome consists of

A welcome consists of placing the welcome template on a talk page.

{{welcome}} produces:

Welcome to Warcraft Wiki!

Hello, {{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to Warcraft Wiki! Thank you for your contributions, and we heartily encourage you to continue contributing!

Some links you may find useful:

• The things to do category has lots of things to keep you busy!
• Check out the Community portal for some useful editors' links.
• Finally, please check out the site guidelines and policies!

I hope you enjoy editing here and being an editor! Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~) as this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, or need help, just ask on the relevant talk page, or visit the site forums. Again, welcome! --~~~~

To welcome a user, simply put {{subst:welcome}} on a new user's Discussion page.

Deciding Who to Welcome

It would be simple just to welcome every new user, but some of the new users are vandals or spam bots, so we want to be a little bit careful about screening who we welcome.

Basic criteria for who to welcome

• More than one contribution with at least one significant contribution (a few lines of text).
  • More than just adding stat numbers, a few external links (sometimes these are self-serving to get traffic to their sites), or spelling and minor editing corrections.
  • Contributions to shared articles and not just player, guild or server pages.
• No vandals or spammers.
  • You might want to take a quick scan of the known vandals list and their recent contributions to make sure you're not welcoming vandals.
• Welcoming a user can also be a flag for more experienced users to not watch the welcomed user's contributions as closely, so use discretion.