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If you are new to Wikipedia, you might consider using the standard article format for your userpage initially. That should suffice while you're learning the ropes. If you don't have a user page yet and don't know how to create a page, then click on your user name at the top of the screen and follow the instructions (if the page already exists, your username will be blue instead of red).
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That makes your user page one of the most easily accessible pages to you on Wikipedia, making it a powerful tool. One of the things you can use your user page for is navigation. It is the perfect place for bookmarks and navbars/navboxes, to get you where you need to go on Wikipedia and related destinations fast.
To link to it, type [[User:Example User/Subpage]] To transclude it (like a template) type {{User:Example User/Subpage}} The reason you would want to transclude it is if you want to put a header on every page, all you would need to put is {{User:Example User/Header}}, and you wouldn't need to put the code on each time. Also see Wikipedia:Subpages
As of 2018, the Portals Project has made some astounding advancements in portal design, making portals a breeze to create and modify. One possible application of the new portal design is as a user page. For an example of a user page set up as a portal, see User:The Transhumanist.
Here are some actual user pages as examples. If you come across a user page that's exceptionally artistically creative, or is representative of a design style or element type not yet included here, or that is interesting for how its content is presented, or has content that is especially useful, uplifting, or enlightening, please consider adding it to this list, so that we may all benefit from ...
If an article overall has so many images that they lengthen the page beyond the length of the text itself, you can use a gallery; or you can create a page or category combining all of them at Wikimedia Commons and use a relevant template ({}, {{Commons category}}, {{Commons-inline}} or {{Commons category-inline}}) to link to it instead, so that ...
Something like "html { border-left: thick solid green; }" in the CSS stylesheet for this page, for example. --Carey Evans What I'd love to see is for the people who'd like to see something specifically different in the interface to take a page from the wiki, save the HTML, modify it to their heart's content, and post it for everyone to see.