Help:User pages
A user page is a page about a wiki user with an account on the wiki, and who is (most probably) a contributor.
If you have registered, you can create your own user page. Your user page is linked in the top right. More importantly, others will see links to your user page from various places which assist wiki collaboration. This includes the "Recent changes" and "page history" displays (see Tracking changes). You can also link to your user page within text of a wiki page, which is mainly useful on talk pages when you sign your name.
What to put on your user page
User pages are just as flexible as any other wiki page, and it's a page all about you, so in general you can freely write your user page in whatever format you like. Think of it as a “profile” page. You might like to mention where you are from and what your job is. You can also state what your main areas of interest are in relation (or in addition) to sirens, and describe contributions you have made or areas where you are interested in contributing.
User scratchpad / development area
You can use your user page as a scratchpad. You may find subpages useful for creating additional work areas grouped under your user page. However, you should avoid expending too much effort within your "userspace". Be bold! Edit the main wiki articles!
Other people's user pages
As mentioned above, you will see links to other people's user pages in various places throughout the wiki.
User Contributions
When viewing another person's user page, an additional link "user contributions" appears in the "tools" of the sidebar. This takes you to a list of all of this user's wiki edits. Use this to get an idea of how prolific a contributor somebody is, or to track down edits made by a user who is causing trouble/making bad wiki edits.
Editing someone else's page
It's generally considered bad etiquette to rewrite or reword another person's user page. Editing is not disallowed, but you should avoid adding information (or especially opinions) which might be misinterpreted as coming from that user, in situations where this could potentially cause upset. Some types of edit are widely acceptable, and unlikely to cause upset:
- Fixing internal links, when a page has been moved or deleted
- Fixing broken external links
- Categorizing or fixing categories of user pages.
User talk pages
Every user page has an associated talk page; a "user talk page". This is a special kind of talk page, for leaving messages directed at a particular user. See User talk pages for more.
Link to a user page
To create a link to the user page of the user that clicks that link, use Special:MyPage.