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*Your '''userspace''' is the collection of all the above. | *Your '''userspace''' is the collection of all the above. | ||
Details about you shouldn't go in the main namespace, which is reserved for ''Mario'' content. | Details about you shouldn't go in the main namespace, which is reserved for ''Super Mario'' content. | ||
==What can I have on my user page?== | ==What can I have on my user page?== | ||
A good start is to add a little information about yourself, how old you are, where you're from, your favorite ''Mario'' games, your areas of expertise and interest, likes and dislikes, other homepages, and so forth. Obviously, this will depend on how comfortable you are with respect to privacy. [[MarioWiki:Userboxes|Userbox towers]] are a favorite method of communicating the basic facts about yourself, although you should be careful not to go overboard with the amount of boxes you use. Many users also include quotes, links to their favorite articles and image galleries. However, like the userboxes, be careful not to spend too much time building up these sorts of repositories. User pages are fun, but your focus should always be editing the wiki, not your userspace. | A good start is to add a little information about yourself, how old you are, where you're from, your favorite ''Super Mario'' games, your areas of expertise and interest, likes and dislikes, other homepages, and so forth. Obviously, this will depend on how comfortable you are with respect to privacy. [[MarioWiki:Userboxes|Userbox towers]] are a favorite method of communicating the basic facts about yourself, although you should be careful not to go overboard with the amount of boxes you use. Many users also include quotes, links to their favorite articles and image galleries. However, like the userboxes, be careful not to spend too much time building up these sorts of repositories. User pages are fun, but your focus should always be editing the wiki, not your userspace. | ||
If you want, you can let people know about your activities and goals on the wiki: you might include current plans, recent activities or notable accomplishments. If you're going away or won't be editing the wiki very much, you might drop a note on your user page to that effect. You can also use your userspace to help you edit the Super Mario Wiki more effectively: you can use it to list useful links or features, make a "to do" list for yourself, or even draft new pages, policies or templates. | If you want, you can let people know about your activities and goals on the wiki: you might include current plans, recent activities or notable accomplishments. If you're going away or won't be editing the wiki very much, you might drop a note on your user page to that effect. You can also use your userspace to help you edit the Super Mario Wiki more effectively: you can use it to list useful links or features, make a "to do" list for yourself, or even draft new pages, policies or templates. | ||
'''You are allowed five personal | '''You are allowed five personal files for your userspace.''' Please do not abuse this privilege. See [[MarioWiki:Personal files]] for more information. | ||
==What can I have on my user talk page?== | ==What can I have on my user talk page?== | ||
Your user talk page is for other users to discuss matters related to the | Your user talk page is for other users to discuss matters related to the wiki with you. You can also have casual conversations with your friends here, but remember to keep editing the articles as well. In general, your contributions to your user talk page should be in response to other people's comments - avoid stuff that would be better placed on your user page. You can archive your user talk page when it gets large and hard to navigate, but you cannot remove conversations or comments, unless they are acts of vandalism or trolling. | ||
The proper way to archive is by moving the entire talk page to an archive subpage (i.e. moving "User talk:JohnDoe" to "User talk:JohnDoe/Archive 1"); please note that the archive must still be a talk page, so moving to a main userspace subpage like "User:JohnDoe/Archive 1" would not be allowed. Moving the page carries over the editing history of the talk page along with the content, making it easier to go back and find specific changes made to the page. Simply cutting and pasting the text into newly created archive subpages ''is'' allowed too, as long as the archiving is done in big, periodic chunks. However, archiving too frequently or archiving individual sections immediately after every conversation ends should be avoided, as this causes unnecessary edits and seriously breaks up the page history, making it harder to find old edits. Also, once you've archived your talk page, no one, including you, should edit the archive except for occasional maintenance work or other extraneous circumstances that absolutely require modifications to be made. Some users have their archives protected, however this is dissuaded since it can prevent legitimate maintenance work from being conducted (not even by the archive's owner, unless they are an admin), and erroneous or malicious talk pages edits are infrequent and easy to revert anyway. | The proper way to archive is by moving the entire talk page to an archive subpage (i.e. moving "User talk:JohnDoe" to "User talk:JohnDoe/Archive 1"); please note that the archive must still be a talk page, so moving to a main userspace subpage like "User:JohnDoe/Archive 1" would not be allowed. Moving the page carries over the editing history of the talk page along with the content, making it easier to go back and find specific changes made to the page. Simply cutting and pasting the text into newly created archive subpages ''is'' allowed too, as long as the archiving is done in big, periodic chunks. However, archiving too frequently or archiving individual sections immediately after every conversation ends should be avoided, as this causes unnecessary edits and seriously breaks up the page history, making it harder to find old edits. Also, once you've archived your talk page, no one, including you, should edit the archive except for occasional maintenance work or other extraneous circumstances that absolutely require modifications to be made. Some users have their archives protected, however this is dissuaded since it can prevent legitimate maintenance work from being conducted (not even by the archive's owner, unless they are an admin), and erroneous or malicious talk pages edits are infrequent and easy to revert anyway. | ||
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*'''Subpages that serve the wiki''' (These can include drafts for proposals, test templates, and miscellaneous works in progress.) | *'''Subpages that serve the wiki''' (These can include drafts for proposals, test templates, and miscellaneous works in progress.) | ||
*'''A status page''' (Like the archive template, this should only be made if it's meant to be used on multiple pages; if it's only going to go on the user page ''or'' the user talk page, just build the message into the page itself.) | *'''A status page''' (Like the archive template, this should only be made if it's meant to be used on multiple pages; if it's only going to go on the user page ''or'' the user talk page, just build the message into the page itself.) | ||
*''' | *'''Custom CSS/JavaScript pages''' (Only the subpages linked from [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering|Special:Preferences]] are allowed.) | ||
The following uses are '''NOT''' allowed, and will be deleted if created: | The following uses are '''NOT''' allowed, and will be deleted if created: | ||
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*Custom formatting that interferes with the basic appearance of the wiki (i.e. you can change the background colour, but you can't hide the sidebar or editing tabs) | *Custom formatting that interferes with the basic appearance of the wiki (i.e. you can change the background colour, but you can't hide the sidebar or editing tabs) | ||
*Mainspace templates (while you can't post actual templates, you can copy the codes of things like infoboxes and repurpose them for your page; warning templates may not be copied, however) | *Mainspace templates (while you can't post actual templates, you can copy the codes of things like infoboxes and repurpose them for your page; warning templates may not be copied, however) | ||
*Fake "New Messages" boxes ([[MarioWiki:Proposals/ | *Fake "New Messages" boxes ([[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/22#Remove the fake "New Messages" boxes.|see proposal]]) or other unnecessary distractions (use your discretion) | ||
*Fake Warnings. Issuing a {{tem|reminder}}, {{tem|warning}}, or any other official notice template to someone as a joke is considered an abuse of warning privileges and can get you in ''actual'' trouble. As mentioned above, even customizing the template coding into a clearly bogus warning is not allowed: it's too much of a distraction, and there is no good reason to do it. Don't give yourself fake warnings either. | *Fake Warnings. Issuing a {{tem|reminder}}, {{tem|warning}}, or any other official notice template to someone as a joke is considered an abuse of warning privileges and can get you in ''actual'' trouble. As mentioned above, even customizing the template coding into a clearly bogus warning is not allowed: it's too much of a distraction, and there is no good reason to do it. Don't give yourself fake warnings either. | ||
*Spam. Posting massive amounts of mindless text, images, or fake templates on your own or another user's talk page is unnecessarily disruptive and wastes space. Going around posting the same generic message (especially solicitations, which is itself disallowed) may also be viewed as a form of spamming, especially if you're contacting long-retired users and people you otherwise don't know. | *Spam. Posting massive amounts of mindless text, images, or fake templates on your own or another user's talk page is unnecessarily disruptive and wastes space. Going around posting the same generic message (especially solicitations, which is itself disallowed) may also be viewed as a form of spamming, especially if you're contacting long-retired users and people you otherwise don't know. | ||
*Excessive YouTube videos. There is no need to embed numerous videos on your user page, and doing so can easily crash other users' computers. You can embed a couple videos, but any more than six is getting excessive, and it would be better to just link to them. | *Excessive YouTube videos. There is no need to embed numerous videos on your user page, and doing so can easily crash other users' computers. You can embed a couple videos, but any more than six is getting excessive, and it would be better to just link to them. | ||
In general, if you have material that you do not wish for others to edit, or that is otherwise inappropriate for the Super Mario Wiki, it should be placed on a personal | In general, if you have material that you do not wish for others to edit, or that is otherwise inappropriate for the Super Mario Wiki, it should be placed on a personal website. Many free and low-cost web hosting services are available to serve such needs, and are a good alternative for content unrelated to the wiki. | ||
Community-building activities that are not strictly "on topic" may be allowed, especially when initiated by committed users with good edit histories. At their best, such activities help us to build the community, and this helps to build the encyclopedia. However, some users become addicted to the community aspect, and it is up to the good contributors to get them back on track and editing the articles once more. If a user is making too many userspace edits and not actually editing the mainspace, we have a specific {{tem|userspace}} warning template that can be issued to them. Users who ignore this gentle reminder will be subject to stronger warnings and eventually, punitive action such as having their user page protected from editing or finding themselves temporarily blocked from editing at all if talking to other users is the problem. | Community-building activities that are not strictly "on topic" may be allowed, especially when initiated by committed users with good edit histories. At their best, such activities help us to build the community, and this helps to build the encyclopedia. However, some users become addicted to the community aspect, and it is up to the good contributors to get them back on track and editing the articles once more. If a user is making too many userspace edits and not actually editing the mainspace, we have a specific {{tem|userspace}} warning template that can be issued to them. Users who ignore this gentle reminder will be subject to stronger warnings and eventually, punitive action such as having their user page protected from editing or finding themselves temporarily blocked from editing at all if talking to other users is the problem. | ||
==I just joined and I can't create my user page. Why?== | ==I just joined and I can't create my user page. Why?== | ||
A new user has to be a member of the wiki for at least | A new user has to be a member of the wiki for at least one week and make at least ten edits before they can create pages, including their own user page. After you have fulfilled both requirements, you will become autoconfirmed and will be able to create and edit your user page. More information about autoconfirmation can be found [[MarioWiki:Autoconfirmed users|here]]. | ||
==Ownership and editing of pages in the userspace== | ==Ownership and editing of pages in the userspace== | ||
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In addition to the usual information accessible from an article page such as page history, "discussion" and the like, other users of the Super Mario Wiki can also, at the bottom of the page (or in the sidebar), click "User contributions" to see what contributions you have made to the wiki over time. | In addition to the usual information accessible from an article page such as page history, "discussion" and the like, other users of the Super Mario Wiki can also, at the bottom of the page (or in the sidebar), click "User contributions" to see what contributions you have made to the wiki over time. | ||
Visitors to your user page can also click " | Visitors to your user page can also click "Email this user" if you have opted in your preferences to be able to send and receive email. | ||
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[[Category: | [[Category:Policies]] | ||