MediaWiki talk:Welcome-user

Reasons for @disabled
It's better to have the subst: prefix for things like welcome messages, but the MediaWiki page won't keep it as, so if the welcome message gets changed, it won't affect this. Also, it won't show signatures. 21:35, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * A better reason is that the auto-welcome is signed with the signature of whichever admin was last active, hence gives the illusion that said admin personally welcomed the newbie and approves of their edit. — RobertATfm (talk) 17:50, April 10, 2017 (UTC)