Wowpedia:Welcoming

All new members of Wowpedia should be Welcomed to make sure they know what to do and where to go when they join. If you are new, please look away if you do not want the magic to be ruined, as welcomes are not generally personal.

What a Welcome consists of
A welcome consists of placing the welcome template on a talk page.

produces:

To welcome a user, simply put  on a new user's  page.

Deciding Who to Welcome
It would be simple just to welcome every new user, but some of the new users are vandals or spam bots, so we want to be a little bit careful about screening who we welcome.


 * Basic criteria for who to welcome:
 * More than one contribution with at least one significant contribution (a few lines of text).
 * More than just adding stat numbers, a few external links (sometimes these are self-serving to get traffic to their sites), or spelling and minor editing corrections.
 * Contributions to shared articles and not just player, guild or server pages.
 * No vandals or spammers.
 * You might want to take a quick scan of the known vandals list and their recent contributions to make sure you're not welcoming vandals.
 * Welcoming a user can also be a flag for more experienced users to not watch the welcomed user's contributions as closely, so use discretion.