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Welcome to the Dwarf Fortress Wiki, {{{user|{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>PAGENAME}}}}}! Here are some helpful links to get you started:
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Welcome to this wiki! Dwarf Fortress rapidly becomes more complicated, and we're always glad to have new writers.<br>
* If you're new to editing wikis, the [[Help:Contents|Help]] page has some useful technical information.
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Since you should try to follow wiki standards, and you probably don't know ours yet, we've made a list of basic guidelines. Note that this is a template, not a customized message for you.
* The [[DF:Community portal|Community portal]] has a collection of rules, many of them unique to this wiki. {{Rule|G}}, {{Rule|N}}, and {{Rule|Z}} are three of the more important ones to keep in mind.
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* To tell us who you are when you talk, please sign your posts on discussion pages by typing <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code> after your posts. This can also be inserted with the [[Image:Button sig756222.png]] button if JavaScript is enabled.
* The [[DF:announcements|announcements]] (usually) contain current, important information&mdash;be sure to check them periodically.
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* Don't put a question mark in the title of a page. Question marks mess things up, and your page will be moved to a different name.
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* When making comments on a talk page, use one more colon before each line in your comment than was used in the comment you reply to. In general, put exactly one empty line between comments by different users but do not use blank lines inside of a comment.
* See [[DF:Versions]] for an explanation of namespaces (e.g. "{{DF:Current}}") and redirects on this wiki.
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* Avoid making many small edits to a page. Instead, try to make one large edit. This makes the history of the page a lot easier to read.
* [[Help:Useful templates]] lists some commonly-used templates available on this wiki.
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* Don't edit the user page of another user. If you want to tell them something, add the comment to their talk page.
 
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* If you put a comment at the bottom of a talk page with section headers, you've probably put it in a section. Putting things in the wrong sections is confusing. You can create a section!
<div align=center><div style="width: 28em; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; border: 1px solid #ccc; background: #eee; text-align: center">''"You have been processed! Go forth, now, and edit!" --Savok''</div></div>
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* Generally, [[Dwarf_Fortress_Wiki:Community_Portal#We_are_doing_this.21_Let_us_do_it_right.|read and follow the rules.]] They're like a little constitution, except not boring! Really, read them.
<small>This message is a template - the original can be found at {{tl|welcome user}}. This message was left <includeonly>by {{user|{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}}}</includeonly> at ~~<noinclude/>~~<noinclude/>~.</small>
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* Read the [[df:Announcements|site announcements]] regularly, they contain important info.
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* Check up on the [[df:Manual of Style|manual of style]] occasionally, it's still being written, but will contain important style info soon.
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* Some pages have version-specific articles, (ie: 40d, 23a...) when creating a redirect from the mainspace to a version specific article, use cv: instead of the version namespace.
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<div align=center><div style="width: 28em; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; border: 1px solid #ccc; background: #eee; text-align: center">''"You have been processed! Go forth, now, and edit!" --[[User:Savok|Savok]]''</div></div>

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