Template talk:Welcomespam

message: Hi, I've moved the documentation from this Talk page to the Template:Welcomespam/doc subpage, as recommended in Wikipedia:Template doc page pattern. Please edit the template to:
Welcome
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia.  We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes.  Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles.  For more information on this, see
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Thanks. +mwtoews 04:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --CBD 12:11, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved documentation

message: ::Shouldn't the transcluded documentation go in the <noinclude> block?  Right now, it is being transcluded onto user's pages.  Best, Egfrank (talk) 11:32, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like it's there now.  --Thinboy00 @829, i.e. 18:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template usage documentation is being transcluded onto user pages 

message: The template doesn't work as expected if there is no 2nd parameter (user name). That could be fixed with #if magic. It might be interesting to have more parameters for other spamvertized articles instead of a user parameter, writing  --~~~~ instead of  should be simple. As this template is typically used on new talk pages it could start with ==Welcome== helping new users to keep their talk page in shape: the template is designed for WP:AGF. --217.184.142.47 (talk) 04:25, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second parameter 

message: The template says "Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles", but the "in articles" implies that advertising is permitted in other namespaces, so should probably be removed. —Snigbrook 13:18, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: . BencherliteTalk 18:19, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Advertising in other namespaces

message: Hi, I'd like to pipe the words "promotional purposes" to WP:PROMOTION, since that policy is not referenced anywhere within this template. I don't think this is a controversial change or would require any discussion, since it is pretty straightforward. ThemFromSpace 17:17, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Makes sense.  — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:46, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested edit 

message: We get a lot of advertisements on user pages; for clarity, I propose to go further than the change two above this, and amend the template to read "Wikipedia does not allow advertising, in articles or in user pages." Any objections? JohnCD (talk) 11:31, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  User pages