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I’ve been on a long wikiHow break. I have returned and discovered that I am welcoming people without my knowledge. The way I discovered this is that I kept receiving mysterious messages from new contributors thanking me for the welcome message. I went to the talk pages in question and discovered that I had mysteriously welcomed them to wikiHow. My question: Are automatic welcome messages now generated? Just curious, MA

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Mary, I had the same question when I returned from my hiatus. Check out the following forum thread which describes how to the new welcoming tool works: http://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/comment/36100

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Also, you can opt-out of it in your preferences if you like.:slight_smile:

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Hey MA! Not a dumb question at all! Lots of people have wondered if perhaps their account got hacked:slight_smile:You can find more details on how this welcoming tool came to be here: http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Welcoming-Tool

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That is actually incredibly perceptive - they are indeed. The welcoming tool will continue to use your name at random (not entirely random, though) if you don’t do anything. If you aren’t okay with that…

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Thanks Eric for solving the mystery. MA