Wikibooks talk:Please do not bite the newcomers

Initial text adapted from en:Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers --mav 00:19, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)~

Welcome committee
Do we have a wikibooks-specific Welcoming committee something like w:Wikipedia:Welcoming_committee set up at Wikibooks already? Is there a better place to discuss adapting the (w:Wikipedia:Standard_user_greeting) for Wikibooks? I see we already have a standardized welcome message: and. (See welcome and anon for details).

(copied from w:Wikipedia:Welcoming_committee)

For quick welcomes, you can use welcome, or your own version of that template. If you do, use, not just. Remember that doing this is less personal; it's a bit like handing someone a brochure instead of talking to them. As an alternative, you can use a cut-and-paste greeting, like this one. That way you can avoid retyping generic text, but you can easily add a sentence or two that personalize it for the specific user you're greeting.

The greetings messages should be placed on the user's talk page, not their user page, so that they will get the "You have new messages" box.

For anonymous IPs that you would like to suggest they get a user name, you can use either welcomeip (which requires your user name as a parameter) or anon.

--DavidCary 03:20, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


 * While this is an old messege, in the interst of future readers: No, we don't. A good number of regulars welcome newcomers, though. We have the assistance reading room and it's relatives that serve to aid newcomers as well as others with most issues. --Swift (talk) 20:25, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Major copyedit
I've just made a considerable edit to the contents. I think I've preserved the spirit of the guideline, but figured I'd leave a note on this here. --Swift (talk) 20:27, 27 April 2009 (UTC)