Some people all over wikiHow enjoy welcoming people. If you enjoy welcoming new people or are a Welcomer want-to-be you may want advice. This is where we come in! You just leave questions about welcoming new users, and us welcomers will answer your welcoming questions and give you advice. If you need help on your welcome message, just post an example of your welcome message and we will coach you to make it better if needed!
Why not just link to the article on how to welcome new users? I’m confused on why this thread is necessary when that article covers it.
I guess it’s for the things that the article does not cover. I don’t know.
Caeiia
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I guess the part of feedback would not be included in the article, and giving advice is good. Maybe we could just use this thread for that?
And I read your first two sentences as meaning “some people enjoy welcoming, except for Welcomers”!
I usually use this personal “template” that I have copy and pasted on a Google search page (bookmarked):
Hi there!
I see that you are a new wikiHow member. How are you enjoying our community so far?
Have you got any article ideas? It’s alright if you have none; in the meantime, you can continue to contribute in the [ wikihow.com/Special:CommunityDashboard
Community Dashboard].
Don’t worry about any mistake you might make on wikiHow for now; in time, you’ll learn what to do. 
If you have any more questions, you can ask me or SarahB.
I routinely change it. If they didn’t contribute in the Community Dashboard, I take out the “continue to.” I change “SarahB” to the first welcomer, and if there are many others, I add in “any of the other wikiHow members who have reached out to you.” If there is nobody, I take it out without replacing it.
The thing is that I’m not an actual welcomer. You know, almost all welcomers use the same welcome (or very similar welcomes). It’s like a template that isn’t really a template.
That’s not really ideal for welcoming, though - the purpose of welcoming is to give a personalized welcome message to the user, not a template. Since they already get basics and such via the WelcomeBot, a template or copied message feels pretty stiff in comparison to the personalized notes.
Caeiia
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I try not to be too boring or similar with mine. And I am just wondering about the putting in of a random Welcomer name (like SarahB). I am not sure a newcomer would know who this SarahB is, and I think it’s more general to say “you can ask me or another community member”.
Also, Welcomers are strongly encouraged to personalize, such as commenting on an edit the person made. So I do hope no one is copying off of each others’ welcomes to the point of where it looks like the same thing!
Yeah, I routinely change around my welcome to fit well with the new user. If they’ve done a lot of work in the Community Dashboard or edited a lot of articles, I would compliment on that.
The name is the name of the previous welcomer, and I take it out if there is nobody who welcomed. When there are two are more people, I do what @Caeiia
said.
We should start being more creative with our welcomes. Everyone does the same thing: thanks the new user for joining, mentions the Topic Greenhouse, and says that the user can ask questions on the talk page. Seriously, I look at almost every new user, and most are very similar, if not exactly the same.
This doesn’t mean that all welcomes are similar. I’ve seen several that are personalized.
Caeiia
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I agree. But some are just passing by and saying hi, so I am not sure how that will be solved.
Out of plain curiosity, why do you put the name of the recent Welcomer?
Usually, when I welcome others, there is already a welcome. It just makes things seem “fair.”
