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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).
a space where they can create pages for their own use. This page explains how to use these things. For all the gritty details, see the user page guidelines. To have a user space, you must be a logged-in user, always. log in or create an account first, if you are not a logged in user. For a listing of special pages related to your individual ...
Users may include a user page notice on their own user pages, user talk pages, or both. Placing the template {{ User page }} at the start of a user page clearly identifies the nature of the page for readers, and also helps if people find the labeled page in copies of Wikipedia elsewhere (more about this below) and want to locate the original.
To use one of these, press edit above, and copy the name of the menu you want to use (but without the curly brackets) and paste it into the search box to the left and press "Go". Then press edit again and select and copy the whole page (using ctrl-C). Then create a new page called User:USERNAME/Menu, and paste what you copied to there. Edit it ...
This department is a how-to guide to help you develop your user page. This page was last edited on 17 September 2024, at 03:18 (UTC). Text ...
A list of existing subpages can be seen using Special:Prefixindex (for example, Special:Prefixindex/User talk:Example/). You can usually have anything on a subpage that you might have on a user or user talk page, except for a few items (see below) that must be visible to other users if posted. Hierarchies of subpages are also possible.
For a real-life example of how the above method is applied upon a user page, see the page User:Tom.Reding. Of course, you are not limited to dots. This method can be employed using icons, emoticons, etc.
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.