`  == User templates ==  I saw your talk page comment. FYI the way to put the plain welcome on a user's talk is to edit the talk page (creating it) and put the following text on it with no heading: {{subst:welcome}} ~~~~ You can try that here (on your talk) by editing the whole page, select all text in the edit window and delete it, then paste in the above, then preview the result. Close the edit window to cancel. The ``subst:`` means that the text displayed in the preview is substituted into the page—if the subst: were omitted, editing the talk page would show ``{{welcome}}`` and if that template were ever changed, the text displayed on the talk page would change. Most templates designed to be substituted include the name of the template in a hidden comment. There are lots of welcome templates, some of them extremely intrusive IMHO. You can see these at the ``See also`` link at the bottom of the documentation shown at .   `