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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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Note: This method is a hack which does not work with all Wikipedia skins. For example, users of the Classic skin will have the links at the top of the page covered up by the title. Alternate title headers are headers that cover up the default header at the top of a page. The default title header has the name of the page in big bold letters.
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 ...
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
Note: Do not edit this page with your about you details. Go to Special:MyPage, which redirects to your own "About you" page, to add this information. One of the most important functions of your user page is to enable you to introduce yourself to the Wikipedia community.
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 ...