Help:User pages

This help page outlines how to make a user page.

The main page of a userspace, generally referred to as someone's user page or main user page, is commonly used to give people information about themselves. User pages are almost always in the "user" namespace, and their titles are the user's username.

User pages often provide information about themselves, such as their location/time zone.

Often, it is left at the contact information and time zone. It is not recommended to include personal information about the user, since this is the Internet and is public to the whole world, although it is not disallowed.

Contact information usually includes a user's Discord username and how else to contact said user. Such as, "if you ping me or leave a message on my talk page, I'll usually see it within 24 hours". Also, people might say what their Mojira username is, Minecraft username is, etc.

Time zone information is usually just the time zone plus UTC offset, or location. UTC offset is useful to have on a page, because time zone names are often not well-known.

A lot of the time, however, there is some information, such as username (somewhat unnecessarily), birthday, wiki achievements, and quick references.

The username part of it might look something like this: "Hi, I'm (username),...". The former username, if any, is usually also included.

The birthday part of it is somewhat simple. It is usually just a row in an infobox.

The infobox usually contains username (as title), birthday, time zone, and some contact information. Sometimes, an isometric render of the user's Minecraft skin is included.

Wiki achievements may include edit count milestones, thanked by, first article, had autopatrol/patroller since (number of days), etc.

The quick references can come in many different names, such as "quicklinks". This is for the user to use to get to certain pages quickly.

Another section is "existing subpages". This is to list the subpages of one's user page. This may come in the form of a custom navbox, part of the quick references section, or its own section.

There is often a section or infobox row for userboxes, which tell other people about themselves in a fun way. A list of them can be found here.

There is often content on user pages that does not fit into the above categories. After all, people are generally allowed to put anything they want on their user pages/userspaces.

User pages must comply with a few specific rules. For example, users should not harass, threaten, stalk, or insult anyone, and are not allowed to put illegal or copyrighted content on their page.