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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 ...
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).
If you click edit on any existing page or page section and then change the title of the page shown in the URL of your browser's address bar to the name of a non-existent page, and then hit return/enter, the resulting page shown will be the same as if you clicked on a red link, allowing you to create a page by the title entered. For example ...
Once you have made the template—for example Template:foo—you can add {{foo}} to the pages that you want to use it on. Every page using this template uses the same boilerplate text each time that a user visits it. When the template is updated, all pages containing the template tag are automatically updated.
You can use one of the following templates to generate these links: {} – generates a "Further information" link {} – generates a "See also" link; For example, to generate a "See also" link to the article on Wikipedia:How to edit a page, type {{See also|Wikipedia:How to edit a page}}, which will generate:
If you get into a nasty quarrel, online or otherwise, that might find its way onto Wikipedia. If you are implicated in a sexual harassment scandal, it may find its way onto Wikipedia. If your company goes bankrupt, that might find its way onto Wikipedia. If you have a controversial publication panned by critics, that might find its way onto ...
Page history & reverting – as an editor you're likely to want to see what other editors do to articles you've edited. Monitoring changes – experienced editors monitor articles they've edited. Vandalism & spam – explains in detail what you, a Wikipedia editor, can do in terms of spotting and fixing vandalism and spam.
There is the Help Menu and Help Directory for a listing of help related pages. Wikipedia:Directory: a descriptive list of Wikipedia's directories and indexes. Wikipedia:FAQ: a list of Frequently Asked Questions. Wikipedia:Questions: discusses how to ask questions on Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Tips: how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels.