Welcome!
Hello JHBonarius, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay.
At Wikipedia, new Users do not automatically receive a welcome; not even a machine-generated welcome. Welcome messages come from other Users. They are personal and genuine. They contain an offer of assistance if such assistance is ever desired.
I suggest to everyone I welcome that they may find some of the following helpful — there’s nothing personal in my suggestion and you may not need any of them:
- Introduction
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- Tutorial
- How to write a great article
- Avoiding common mistakes
- Manual of Style
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Dolphin (t) 02:33, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
- Hi JHB! Thanks for your message. I see you have done a little editing since 2011 but, until yesterday, no-one had welcomed you. We try to provide a personalized welcome to all new Users who do a dozen or more edits over more than one editing session, thereby demonstrating they are not just experimenting with Wikipedia before moving on to something else. Regards. Dolphin (t) 07:37, 10 May 2017 (UTC)