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Once you save a red link there, and create the page, the link will turn blue and will be accessible anytime you visit it. Go to your user or user talk page (both permanently linked at the top of any Wikipedia page); Surround the page title you want to create in doubled brackets, e.g., [[Proposed Title]]; Click the Publish changes button;
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. As people get to know each other better, it (usually) becomes easier for ...
So is a Wikipedia article about yourself good for a résumé? Probably not. On a resumé, you want to tell all the best about yourself. Even if one day the article looks great, it may tell something very different the next. The nature of a wiki is such that information can change at any time. So beware – your boss, your boyfriend/girlfriend ...
This template must be substituted, so use the code {{subst:About you}}.You can include a link to the user's Wikipedia article by using an unnamed parameter, such as {{subst:About you|Jimmy Wales}} (replacing Jimmy Wales with the name of the user's article), which will produce the following first line: "As there is a Wikipedia article about you, at Jimmy Wales, I would like to invite you to:".
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).
This template automatically populates the relevant category with the user page. If and when the user account gets blocked, or approximately eight weeks pass with no further action, that categorization is automatically removed. This standardized template conforms to guidelines by the user warnings project.
Placing the template {} 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 ...