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2 User User talk 3
4 Mickopedia Mickopedia talk 5
6 File File talk 7
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10 Template Template talk 11
12 Help Help talk 13
14 Category Category talk 15
100 Portal Portal talk 101
118 Draft Draft talk 119
710 TimedText TimedText talk 711
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442 Course Course talk 443
444 Institution Institution talk 445
446 Education Program 447
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User pages are pages for organizin' the work users do on Mickopedia, as well as speakin' to other users. Sure this is it. User pages are mainly for interpersonal discussion, notices, testin' and drafts (see: Sandboxes), and, if desired, limited autobiographical and personal content, that's fierce now what? Pages in the feckin' User and User talk namespaces are considered to be user pages.

User pages are available to Mickopedia users personally for purposes compatible with the Mickopedia project and acceptable to the community; Mickopedia is not a holy blog, webspace provider, or social networkin' site. Mickopedia policies concernin' the feckin' content of pages can and generally do apply to user pages, and users must observe these policies, be the hokey! Users believed to be in violation of these policies should first be advised on their talk page usin' {{subst:uw-userpage}} when immediate action is not otherwise necessary.

Terminology and page locations

Your in this context means associated with you, not belongin' to you.

User page
Your user page has a name like this: User:Example. (This link is to yours.) Its normal use is to give basic information, if you wish, about yourself or your Wikimedia-related activities. G'wan now. If you prefer to put nothin' here, then you can redirect it to your user talk page for the feckin' convenience of other editors. You may also wish to create a global user page that will display on all Wikimedia projects where you have not created a holy local user page.
User talk page
Your user talk page (sometimes abbreviated to "your talk page" or "your user talk") has a feckin' name like this: User talk:Example, be the hokey! (This link is to yours.) Its normal use is for messages from, and discussion with, other editors. Bejaysus. The only editin' tool you can use with user talk pages is Source Editor, and not Visual Editor. For more information see Help:Usin' talk pages.
Subpages
Subpages in user space can be used to store sandboxes, essays about Mickopedia, and drafts of Mickopedia articles, among other things. You can create these subpages yourself.
User pages or user space
All of these pages are your user pages or user space. While you do not "own" them, by custom you may manage them as you wish, so long as you do so reasonably and within these guidelines.
You also have subpages endin' in .js and .css to store any user scripts and skin customizations that you may wish to have when you edit Mickopedia. Only you and interface administrators can edit such pages, although anyone can view them.

Creatin' an oul' subpage

Video tutorial on creatin' a feckin' user page sandbox

You can create subpages of your User page and your Talk page. To create a subpage write the feckin' followin' text into any editable text area:

User:Your_Mickopedia_Name/subpage_name

then copy and paste this text into the oul' Mickopedia search box and press ENTER. Stop the lights! This will brin' you to a page with the oul' title User:Your_Mickopedia_Name/subpage_name. Would ye believe this shite?Now click the oul' CREATE-button next to the oul' Mickopedia search box and your new subpage will be created for you. Click on EDIT, enter a holy few test words and save the feckin' new page. Bejaysus. You will notice that different from your User page a holy subpage contains a holy backlink to your User page lookin' like this:

<User:Your_Mickopedia_Name

Clickin' on the oul' backlink will brin' you to your User page. C'mere til I tell yiz. But, contrary to what you might expect, no new tab has been created for "subpages", for example, containin' a bleedin' list of all of your subpages; everythin' on your User page is unchanged. So how do you navigate to your subpage? As a holy method of last resort, you can always go back to your subpage by addin' the oul' title of your subpage to the bleedin' url of your User page:

If your home page url is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Your_Mickopedia_Name
just add the bleedin' name of your subpage:

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Your_Mickopedia_Name/subpage_name

There is, of course, an easier method, but it has to be done manually. Copy and modify the followin' text and put it on your User page:

[[Special:Prefixindex/User:Your_Mickopedia_Name]]

After savin' your User page, clickin' on this link will provide you with a bleedin' list of all pages, containin' the strin' "User:Your_Mickopedia_Name", which in our test case includes the bleedin' sandbox, the feckin' User page and, of course, the bleedin' newly created subpage.

User talk notification

The message notification as it would appear for registered users

You will be notified when someone else edits your user talk page. Arra' would ye listen to this shite? Since 30 April 2013, registered users receive an oul' notification through the oul' new Mickopedia:Notifications system (see image right); unregistered users still receive notifications with the feckin' old-style Orange Bar. Soft oul' day. Registered users wishin' to add back the feckin' functionality of the oul' Orange Bar notification may do so through this script.

For users not editin' with an account (unregistered users), the feckin' alert below is automatically displayed on all pages until you view your user talk page. Would ye believe this shite?If you click "new message" it will direct you to the oul' bottom of your talk page, so it is. If you click "last change" it will show you the oul' last edit done to your talk page. Creatin' an oul' fake message banner that misleads readers into thinkin' they have new messages is prohibited.

You have an oul' new message from another user. Here's a quare one for ye. (last change).

The links Special:MyPage and Special:MyTalk are shortcuts that take any user to their own user and user talk pages. If someone is to visit your (or someone else's) user or user talk pages a bleedin' proper page link will be needed (e.g., [[User talk:Example]]). Jaykers! In practice, user and user talk pages are mostly visited by clickin' on user signatures in discussions, and links shown in page histories and diffs.

Options available from user pages

In addition to the bleedin' usual information accessible from an article page such as page history, "Discuss this page" and the like, users visitin' user and user talk pages can also click "User contributions" (in the feckin' sidebar or at the oul' bottom of the bleedin' page) to see what contributions you have made at Mickopedia over time, and "Logs" to see records of other events related to your editorship, done by yourself and by others. Listen up now to this fierce wan. (Note that havin' your user page deleted does not delete any list of your wider contributions.)

Visitors to your user page can also click "Email this user" if you have opted in your user preferences to be able to send and receive email. Here's a quare one. Your email address will remain private unless you reveal it yourself, select the option to reveal it (in preferences), or reply usin' an email system outside Mickopedia.

What may I have in my user pages?

There is no fixed use for user pages, except that usually one's user page has somethin' about oneself, and one's talk page is used for messagin', would ye swally that? Provided other users can quickly and easily find the bleedin' pages they need, users may, within reason, freely organize their user pages as they choose.

Users may include a bleedin' user page notice on their own user pages, user talk pages, or both. Holy blatherin' Joseph, listen to this. Placin' the feckin' template {{User page}} at the bleedin' start of a feckin' user page clearly identifies the nature of the feckin' page for readers, and also helps if people find the bleedin' labeled page in copies of Mickopedia elsewhere (more about this below) and want to locate the oul' original.

Contributions can also be given a bleedin' wider license – for example releasin' them into the public domain or multi-licensin' them – by puttin' an oul' notice to this effect on one's user page, or on a holy subpage linked from it. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. Note that it is not possible to give them narrower licensin': all edits on Mickopedia, includin' all userspace edits, are licensed for use under the bleedin' Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License and in most cases the GNU Free Documentation License as part of Mickopedia.

User pages may be mirrored by other sites. If there is material you do not want copied, reposted, or reused, do not post it on the feckin' site.

Certain kinds of material must not linger indefinitely in user space; see below for details.

Besides communication, other legitimate uses of user space include (but are not limited to):

  • Significant editin' disclosures (voluntary but recommended)
    • Things other editors may find helpful to understand, such as alternative accounts (if publicly disclosed)
    • If you are editin' for or on behalf of a feckin' company, organization, group, product, or person (etc.) which you wish to be open about in order to gain an oul' good workin' relationship with the editin' community.

      (Editin' must always be neutral and within encyclopedia norms. Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. Editors tend to distrust concealed conflicts of interest and agendas, enda story. Openly disclosin' such interests increases respect, invites others to help, and shows a bleedin' desire to edit appropriately.)

  • Notes related to your Mickopedia work and activities
    • Current or planned articles, topic areas, to-do lists, reminders, articles worked on, accolades and other successes, collaborative works, draft proposals, (constructive) thoughts on Mickopedia articles or policies and how they should be changed, etc.
    • Expansion and detailed backup for points bein' made (or which you may make) in discussions elsewhere on the wiki.
  • Work in progress or material that you may come back to in future (usually on subpages)
    • Drafts, especially where you want discussion or other users' opinions first, for example because of conflict of interest or major proposed changes
    • Drafts bein' written in your own user space because the feckin' target page itself is protected, and notes and workin' material for articles (Some content may not be kept indefinitely).
  • Useful links, tools, and scripts
  • User space archives
    • Old talk page threads, etc. (Some content may not be kept indefinitely in userspace if unused.)
  • Matters that are long enough, or active enough, to allocate them a bleedin' page of their own
  • Personal writings suitable within the Mickopedia community
    • Non-article Mickopedia material such as reasonable Mickopedia humor, essays and perspectives, personal philosophy, comments on Mickopedia matters
    • Disclosures of important matters such as absences or self-corrections that you would like other editors to know about, etc.
    • Statements of congratulations or condolence for major events, especially if related to Mickopedia editorship or major life-events.

      (Make sure the oul' user wants these to be publicly mentioned on the wiki, they may wish it to be private.)

  • Experimentation (usually on subpages)
  • Limited autobiographical content
    • For example, languages you know (see Mickopedia:Babel) or fields you have knowledge in.
  • A small and proportionate amount of suitable unrelated material
    • A number of users have Mickopedia and sister project content such as (free use) pictures from Wikimedia Commons, favorite Mickopedia articles, or quotations that they like.

      Pages used for blatant promotion or as a bleedin' soapbox or battleground for unrelated matters are usually considered outside this criterion. For example: a feckin' five-page résumé and advertisin' for your band will probably be too much, an oul' brief three-sentence summary that you work in field X and have a band named Y will be fine.

      Editors may not use their userspace to solicit compensation for their Mickopedia contributions.

You are also welcome to include an oul' simple link to your personal home page, although you should not surround it with any promotional language. However, if an oul' link to your home page is the only thin' on your userpage, this may be seen as an attempt at self-promotion.

User pages are also used for administrative purposes, to make users aware of blocks, warnings, or other sanctions if they happen, and to notify of matters that may affect articles you have worked on or editorial issues you have been involved with. Stop the lights! Others may also edit your user pages, for instance awardin' you a feckin' barnstar or leavin' notes and images for you, or addin' comments and questions, begorrah. Although you have wide leeway to edit your user pages, a holy few of these matters should not be removed (see below).

Userspace and mainspace

Details about yourself should not normally go in the oul' main encyclopedia namespace (reserved for encyclopedia articles only), and encyclopedia articles should never link to or transclude any userspace pages.

In the feckin' rare case that you or somethin' closely connected to you may have an article in the feckin' encyclopedia, that is always treated as completely separate from you as an editor. You should very carefully read the bleedin' guidance on conflict of interest and generally avoid editin' about yourself or matters closely related to you in any article.

If you would like to draft a feckin' new article, Help:Userspace draft provides a bleedin' standard template and useful guidance to help you create an oul' draft in your userspace, and the bleedin' Article Wizard can walk you through all stages of creatin' an article with the option to save as a feckin' userspace draft too. C'mere til I tell ya. You can use the bleedin' template {{userspace draft}} to tag a feckin' userspace draft if it is not automatically done for you.

Personal and privacy-breachin' material

Some people add personal information such as contact details (email, instant messagin', etc.), an oul' photograph, their real name, their location, information about their areas of expertise and interest, likes and dislikes, etc. I hope yiz are all ears now. Once added, this information is unlikely to ever become private again, you know yerself. It could be copied elsewhere or even used to harass you in the feckin' future. Chrisht Almighty. You are cautioned to think carefully before addin' non-public information to your user page because you are unlikely to be able to retract it later, even if you change your mind.

Privacy-breachin' non-public material, whether added by yourself or others, may be removed from any page upon request, either by administrators or (unless impractical) by purgin' from the bleedin' page history and any logs by oversighters (see requests for oversight).

Userboxes

Userboxes are fun little boxes you can put in your user page to express yourself. Here's a quare one. They are rectangular and usually contain a feckin' picture and text, the hoor. Here is an example:

Crystal kthememgr.svgA userbox is a bleedin' small rectangular box that looks like this.

What may I not have in my user pages?

Generally, you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Mickopedia. Mickopedia is not a bleedin' general hostin' service, so your user page is not a feckin' personal website. Be the hokey here's a quare wan. Your user page is about you as a holy Mickopedian, and pages in your user space should be used as part of your efforts to contribute to the oul' project.

In addition, there is broad agreement that you may not include in your user space material that is likely to brin' the oul' project into disrepute, or which is likely to give widespread offense (e.g. pro-pedophilia advocacy). Whether serious or trollin', "Mickopedia is not a holy soapbox" is usually interpreted as applyin' to user space as well as the encyclopedia itself, and "Mickopedia is not censored" relates to article pages and images; in other namespaces there are restrictions aimed at ensurin' relevance, value, and non-disruption to the bleedin' community. Be the hokey here's a quare wan. You do have more latitude in user space than elsewhere, but don't be inconsiderate, so it is. Extremely offensive material may be removed on sight by any editor.

The Mickopedia community is generally tolerant and offers fairly wide latitude in applyin' these guidelines to regular participants. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan. Particularly, community-buildin' activities that are not strictly "on topic" may be allowed, especially when initiated by committed Mickopedians with good edit histories. At their best, such activities help us to build the community, and this helps to build the oul' encyclopedia. But at the bleedin' same time, if user page activity becomes disruptive to the community or gets in the way of the task of buildin' an encyclopedia, it must be modified to prevent disruption.

Excessive unrelated content

Unrelated content includes, but is not limited to:

Writings, information, discussions, and activities not closely related to Mickopedia's goals
  • A weblog recordin' your non-Mickopedia activities.
  • Extensive discussion not related to Mickopedia.
  • Extensive personal opinions on matters unrelated to Mickopedia, wiki philosophy, collaboration, free content, the Creative Commons, etc.
  • Extensive writings and material on topics havin' virtually no chance whatsoever of bein' directly useful to the feckin' project, its community, or an encyclopedia article, like. (For example, in the feckin' latter case, because it is pure original research, is in complete disregard of reliable sources, or is clearly unencyclopedic for other clear reasons.)
  • Communications unrelated to Mickopedia, with people uninvolved with the feckin' project or its related work.
  • Games, roleplayin' sessions, secret pages and other things pertainin' to "entertainment" rather than "writin' an encyclopedia". Bejaysus. Such activities are generally frowned upon by the bleedin' community. Games of no educational value relevant to the feckin' project are routinely deleted at MfD, game ball! (Compare Category:Mickopedia games and Category:Mickopedia Word Association.)
Promotional and advocacy material and links
  • Advertisin' or promotion of an individual, business, organization, group, or viewpoint unrelated to Mickopedia (such as commercial sites or referral links).
  • Extensive self-promotional material, especially when not directly relevant to Mickopedia.
Very divisive or offensive material not related to encyclopedia editin'
  • Polemical statements unrelated to Mickopedia, or statements attackin' or vilifyin' groups of editors, persons, or other entities (these are generally considered divisive and removed, and reintroducin' them is often considered disruptive).
  • Material that can be viewed as attackin' other editors, includin' the recordin' of perceived flaws. The compilation of factual evidence (diffs) in user subpages, for purposes such as preparin' for a holy dispute resolution process, is permitted provided it will be used in a timely manner.
  • Users should generally not maintain in public view negative information related to others without very good reason. G'wan now and listen to this wan. Negative evidence, laundry lists of wrongs, collations of diffs and criticisms related to problems, etc., should be removed, blanked, or kept privately (i.e., not on the wiki) if they will not be imminently used, and the feckin' same once no longer needed.
Personal information
  • Personal information of other persons without their consent.
  • Inappropriate or excessive personal information unrelated to Mickopedia.
Mickopedia content not suited to userspace
  • Images which you are not free to use (usually fair use images; see below).
  • Categories and templates intended for other usage, in particular those for articles and guidelines.

In general, if you have material that you do not wish others to edit, or that is otherwise inappropriate for Mickopedia, it should be placed on a bleedin' personal web site. Whisht now and listen to this wan. Many free and low-cost web hostin', email, and weblog services are widely available, and are a feckin' proper place for content unrelated to Mickopedia. Here's a quare one. For wiki-style community collaboration, you can download the feckin' MediaWiki software and install it on your own server if you want full control, or use one of many online wiki farms.

Advocacy or support of grossly improper behaviors with no project benefit

Statements or pages that seem to advocate, encourage, or condone these behaviors:[1] vandalism, copyright violation, edit warrin', harassment, privacy breach, defamation, and acts of violence, what? ("Acts of violence" includes all forms of violence but does not include mere statements of support for controversial groups or regimes that some may interpret as an encouragement of violence.)

These may be removed, redacted or collapsed by any user to avoid the oul' appearance of acceptability for Mickopedia, and existin' speedy deletion criteria may apply. Story? To preserve traditional leeway over userspace, other kinds of material should be handled as described below unless otherwise agreed by consensus.

Categories, templates that add categories, and redirects

Do not put your userpage or subpages, includin' draft articles, into content categories. Would ye swally this in a minute now?Userpages and subpages may be placed in appropriate administrative categories, such as Category:User essays.

Especially note that templates often add categories themselves. Whisht now and eist liom. You can prevent this while the bleedin' article is bein' drafted, by puttin' tlx| between the feckin' {{ and the bleedin' template name, like this: {{tlx|stub|any parameters}}.

You can also force a bleedin' portion of text to be ignored by addin' <!-- in front of it and --> after it, or by addin' a colon before "Category", like this: [[:Category:Bridges]] to force a bleedin' category link to act like a feckin' plain wikilink.

User talk pages should not redirect to anythin' other than the oul' talk page of another account controlled by the feckin' same user. However, redirects from userspace subpages to mainspace are common and acceptable. Soft redirects are allowed on userpages.

User pages that look like project pages

Userspace is also not a substitute for project space (Mickopedia:...), nor should a feckin' userspace page be used as primary documentation for any Mickopedia policy, guideline, practice, or established concept. If your user page related to the bleedin' project becomes widely used or linked in project space, or has functional use similar to a bleedin' project page, consider movin' it into project space or mergin' it with other similar pages already existin' there.

Content copied from mainspace

Old copies of mainspace articles should be deleted. Listen up now to this fierce wan. Mainspace material may be copied to userspace for short-term, active draftin' or experimental purposes (the template {{userspace draft}} can be added to the top of the oul' page to identify these), like. Note the requirements of Mickopedia:Copyin' within Mickopedia, grand so. Satisfactory edits should be promptly incorporated into the mainspace article and the userspace copy deleted (use {{db-u1}}), as content forkin' represents an attribution hazard.

User pages that look like articles

Userspace is not a free web host and should not be used to indefinitely host pages that look like articles, old revisions, or deleted content, or your preferred version of disputed content. Pages that look like articles outside of mainspace should not be indexed for search engines.

When a bleedin' userspace page reaches an oul' point where it can be included as an article, consider movin' it into mainspace or usin' its content appropriately in other relevant articles. Bejaysus here's a quare one right here now. {{Userpage blanked}} may be added to such pages that have not been edited for an oul' considerable amount of time.

Actual fake articles should be deleted as incompatible with the bleedin' purpose of the oul' project. Pages that egregiously present false information may be tagged with {{db-hoax}}. C'mere til I tell ya. Blatant promotional content may qualify for {{db-g11}} taggin'. Holy blatherin' Joseph, listen to this. Clearly inappropriate content created by non-genuine contributors should be tagged with {{db-u5}}, the hoor. Pages that preserve material previously deleted, without an active attempt to address the reasons for deletion, if left live, may be deleted by taggin' with {{db-g4}}. Less blatant cases are routinely deleted at WP:MfD.

Old unfinished draft articles

Unfinished userspace drafts may be ignored, moved to draft namespace or listed at Mickopedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts for adoption by other editors if the feckin' original author no longer wants them or appears to have stopped editin'.

Old draftin' pages in the feckin' userspace of inactive users:

  1. If suitable for mainspace, move to mainspace;[2]
  2. if the feckin' draft is not problematic (e.g. no BLP, reliability, promotional issues) but not ready for mainspace, let it be;[3]
  3. if of some potential but problematic, then blank durin' periods of inactivity usin' {{Userpage blanked}};[3]
  4. if the oul' draft meets the oul' deletion criteria under WP:CSD#U5 or is an old copy from mainspace, consider nominatin' it for deletion;
  5. if an actual draft version of a copy-pasted article, redirect if it was copied by the sole contributor, otherwise request a history merge; and finally,
  6. if the oul' draft has no potential and is problematic even if blanked, seek deletion.

Note: Redirects from userspace subpages to mainspace are common and acceptable. C'mere til I tell ya. Mickopedia:Soft redirect is an alternative considered preferable by some.

User space drafts have no expiration date and thus, cannot and should not be deleted on the grounds of their age alone.[4] Furthermore:[5]

  • GNG does not apply to drafts.
  • User space drafts prevented from bein' moved to the feckin' main space only because of the GNG are not to be kept indefinitely.[6]
  • Drafts deemed fit to be articles can be moved across namespaces or submitted for AfC without the feckin' author's explicit permission if and only if the feckin' draft creator is reasonably inactive.
  • Userspace drafts which do not meet article content standards should not be moved to mainspace in order to seek deletion.
  • In case a bleedin' userspace draft was moved to mainspace but is found not fit to be in mainspace, it must be returned to the feckin' previous location in userspace.
  • Any editor who intends to improve old userspace drafts can move them provided the bleedin' creator of said draft is "reasonably" inactive.

Non-free files

Do not include non-free files (copyrighted files lackin' a bleedin' free content license) on your user page or on any subpage thereof, per the feckin' non-free content policy. Chrisht Almighty. Non-free files found on user or user talk pages will be removed without warnin' and, if unused in a Mickopedia article, will be deleted entirely. Links to non-free files are acceptable—place a colon before the feckin' word "File" as in [[:File:Example.jpg]].

Images that would brin' the bleedin' project into disrepute

There is broad consensus that you should not have any image in your userspace that would brin' the feckin' project into disrepute and you may be asked to remove such images, so it is. Content clearly intended as sexually provocative (images and in some cases text) or to cause distress and shock that appears to have little or no project benefit or usin' Mickopedia only as a web host or personal pages or for advocacy, may be removed by any user (or deleted), subject to appeal at deletion review.[7] Context should be taken into account, like. Simple personal disclosures of an oul' non-provocative nature (such as userboxes or statements about sexuality and relationship status) are unaffected.

Copyright violations

The same rules for copyright apply on userpages as in article space. Jaysis. Text must be either freely licensed or out of copyright; otherwise only an oul' short quote can be used, the cute hoor. If you use text from another source on your userpage, it should still be credited to the bleedin' author, whether or not it is currently copyrighted.

Simulation and disruption of the feckin' MediaWiki interface

The Mickopedia community strongly discourages simulatin' the feckin' MediaWiki interface, except on the rare occasion when it is necessary for testin' purposes. Fake user talk notification banners that mislead readers into thinkin' they have new messages are also prohibited.[8]

CSS and other formattin' codes that disrupt the MediaWiki interface, for example by preventin' important links or controls from bein' easily seen or used, makin' text on the page hard to read or unreadable (other than by way of commentin' out), or replacin' the oul' expected interface with a bleedin' disruptive simulation, may be removed or remedied by any user. In fairness now. Inappropriate internal or external links that unexpectedly direct the feckin' reader to unreasonable locations or violate prohibitions on linkin' may also be removed or remedied by any user. Sufferin' Jaysus listen to this. Text, images, and non-disruptive formattin' should be left as intact as possible. C'mere til I tell ya. Users of such code should consider possible disruption to other skins, diffs, and old revisions.

Ownership and editin' of user pages

This section applies to all pages within your user space.

Traditionally, Mickopedia offers wide latitude to users to manage their user space as they see fit. Be the hokey here's a quare wan. However, pages in user space belong to the oul' wider community, the shitehawk. They are not a holy personal homepage, and do not belong to the feckin' user, to be sure. They are part of Mickopedia, and exist to make collaboration among editors easier.

You can alter your user page with either Source editor or Visual Editor, but you can only edit user talk pages with Source Editor or the reply tool.

Bots and other users may edit pages in your user space or leave messages for you, though by convention others will not usually edit your user page itself, other than (rarely) to address significant concerns or place project-related tags, enda story. Material that clearly does not somehow further the goals of the oul' project may be removed (see below), as may edits from banned users. Stop the lights! Most community policies includin' No personal attacks and Biographies of livin' persons will apply to your user space, just as elsewhere, fair play. (Purely content policies such as original research and neutral point of view generally do not apply unless the oul' material is moved into mainspace.)

As with all other edits, user space contributions are irrevocably licensed for copyin' and reuse under the oul' Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License and GNU Free Documentation License.

Finally, an oul' few specific notices and tags, if placed, may not be moved to a less visible subpage or deleted without discussion.

Removal of comments, notices, and warnings

Policy does not prohibit users, whether registered or unregistered, from removin' comments from their own talk pages, although archivin' is preferred. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. If a user removes material from their talk page, it is normally taken to mean that the user has read and is aware of its contents. There is no need to keep them on display, and usually users should not be forced to do so, the hoor. It is often best to simply let the feckin' matter rest if the oul' issues stop. Jaysis. If they do not, or they recur, then any record of past warnings and discussions can be found in the oul' page history if ever needed, and these diffs are just as good evidence of previous matters.

A number of important matters may not be removed by the user—they are part of the bleedin' wider community's processes:

  • Declined unblock requests regardin' a currently active sitewide block.
  • Miscellany for deletion tags (while the feckin' discussion is in progress).
  • Speedy deletion tags and requests for uninvolved administrator help (an administrator will quickly determine if these are valid or not; use the link embedded in the feckin' notice to object and post an oul' comment, do not just remove the tag).
  • For IP editors, templates and notes left to indicate other users share the bleedin' same IP address. G'wan now and listen to this wan. This includes schools, military installations, WiFi hotspots, and other shared IP addresses, but not dynamic IP addresses. Soft oul' day. Very old content on these pages may be removed.

Note: Restorin' talk page notices, even if they should not be removed, is not a holy listed exception to the oul' three-revert rule.[9]

Editin' of other editors' user and user talk pages

In general, one should avoid substantially editin' another's user and user talk pages, except when it is likely edits are expected and/or will be helpful. If unsure, ask. I hope yiz are all ears now. If an editor asks you not to edit their user pages, such requests should, within reason, be respected, bejaysus. However, editors should not make such requests lightly, especially concernin' their talk pages, as doin' so can impede the feckin' ordinary communication which is important for the oul' improvement and smooth runnin' of the oul' project, you know yerself. Also, a bleedin' user cannot avoid administrator attention or notices and communications that policies or guidelines require to be posted merely by demandin' their talk page not be posted to. Sufferin' Jaysus. Still, repeatedly postin' on an oul' user's page after bein' asked not to, without good reason, may be seen as harassment or similar kind of disruptive behavior. C'mere til I tell ya now. When in doubt, ask for help from another experienced editor or uninvolved administrator. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. See also Mickopedia:Dispute resolution for tips on resolvin' disputes.

Handlin' inappropriate content

On your user pages

If the oul' community lets you know that they would rather you delete some content from your user space, you should consider doin' so—such content is only permitted with the feckin' consent of the bleedin' community. Here's a quare one. Alternatively, you could move the feckin' content to another site, and link to it.

Although other editors will aim to respect your user space, if corrective action is needed and not undertaken, the inappropriate content will eventually be removed, either by editin' the oul' page (if only part is inappropriate), by redirectin' the bleedin' page to your main user page (if entirely inappropriate), by community discussion at Mickopedia:Miscellany for deletion, or possibly by the oul' application of WP:CSD#U5, that's fierce now what? Blatant misuse of Mickopedia as an oul' web host. G'wan now and listen to this wan. Inappropriate content may be removed from any page in your user space, includin' your user talk page.

On others' user pages

The best option if there is a feckin' concern with a holy user's page is to draw their attention to the feckin' matter via their talk page and let them edit it themselves, if they are agreeable, the cute hoor. In some cases a bleedin' more experienced editor may make substantive edits to another user's user space, in which case that editor should leave a note explainin' why this was done. Would ye swally this in a minute now?This should not be done for trivial reasons. If the oul' user does not agree, or does not effectively remedy the oul' concerns, or the bleedin' matter is unsure or controversial, then other steps in this section can be taken includin' uninvolved user opinions or proposin' the bleedin' page for deletion.

If the material must be addressed urgently (for example, unambiguous copyright, attack, defamation, or BLP reasons, etc.), the feckin' user appears inactive, your edit appears unlikely to cause problems, and you are quite sure the feckin' material is inappropriate, then remove or fix the oul' problem material minimally and leave a feckin' note explainin' what you have done, why you have done so, and invitin' the feckin' user to discuss if needed. If the entire page is inappropriate, consider blankin' it, or redirectin' the feckin' subpage to the feckin' userpage, or to the oul' most relevant existin' mainspace or project space page.

Unsuitable pages, media and images in userspace may also be nominated for deletion or (if appropriate) speedy deleted, but special care should be taken, as the feckin' user may be expectin' leeway and take it personally, and there are a few exceptions, the cute hoor. Users with a holy strong editin' record and/or most of their contribution edits outside their user space should be given a bleedin' little more leeway in this regard than users whose edits consist solely or mostly of user space edits or promotional-style activity. Jaykers! See Deletin' user pages below.

User pages and leavin' Mickopedia

When a user leaves Mickopedia, their user and user talk pages are usually unaffected and may be edited again at any future time. Listen up now to this fierce wan. Some users place the feckin' {{retired}} template on their user and talk page to let others know that they are away for an extended period or permanently. A user may blank their user and user talk pages (i.e, for the craic. overwritin' with an oul' blank page) provided non-removable notices (if any) are left intact.

Courtesy vanishin'

Mickopedia's community traditionally offers a bleedin' courtesy vanishin' to users who are permanently departin' Mickopedia and will sever all ties with the site.

Summary of key points: While some help can be given, it is not possible for your edits to be removed entirely, and account deletion would potentially violate copyrights by allowin' for inaccurate attribution and authorship claims. Sure this is it. Certain important templates may need to be retained on user and user talk pages. Arra' would ye listen to this shite? Also, pages that may be of value to the wider community or whose deletion is opposed by other users might be undeleted durin' an oul' deletion discussion. Pages remain licensed for reuse even after deletion, and may occasionally be cited or deemed to contain useful content. Here's a quare one for ye. If a bleedin' "vanished" user returns, old pages associated with them may be undeleted or unblanked, and could be linked to any new account they create and disclosed at RFA; if this would be an oul' problem, consult ArbCom by email beforehand. Of course, the return of users in good standin' or reformed "problem users" is welcomed if they happen to change their mind.

Users who have left Mickopedia may be added to Mickopedia:Missin' Mickopedians after a bleedin' certain amount of time, usually one year without an edit.

Protection of user pages

As with article pages, user pages are occasionally the feckin' targets of vandalism, or, more rarely, edit wars. When edit wars or vandalism persist, the feckin' affected page should be protected from editin'.

Most user page vandalism occurs in retaliation for a bleedin' contributor's efforts to deal with vandalism. Sure this is it. Administrators may protect their own user pages when appropriate, and are permitted to edit protected pages in user space, enda story. Sometimes a non-administrator's user page may be targeted for vandalism, be the hokey! Some of this vandalism is prevented through a filter, as unregistered and unconfirmed editors are not permitted to modify other editors' primary user pages.[10]

In cases in which the filter is insufficient in preventin' vandalism to a bleedin' non-administrator's user page, an editor may create a .css suffixed sub-page containin' their user page content within their user space, transclude the bleedin' sub-page into their main user page, then request that an administrator fully protect their user page. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. (For instance, create User:Example User as {{User:Example User/userpage.css}}.) This method will completely prevent further vandalism by limitin' user page editin' to yourself, and interface administrators, since ".js" and ".css" pages in userspace can only be edited by them, to be sure. Note that the bleedin' addition of inappropriate content to your user page after lockin' other editors out is considered a feckin' serious offense.

Repeatedly insertin' copyrighted content or other inappropriate material on your own user pages after bein' notified not to do so, or misusin' user space followin' a feckin' block (e.g., for personal attacks or tendentious editin') are both considered disruptive and may lead to the bleedin' pages bein' protected to prevent further disruption. User pages may also routinely be protected in the oul' event of a ban.

Vandalism of talk pages is less common. Be the hokey here's a quare wan. Usually such vandalism should merely be reverted, what? Blocks should be used for repeated vandalism of talk pages, where policy permits, the hoor. In rare cases, protection may be used but is considered a last resort given the feckin' importance of talk page discussions to the bleedin' project.

Deletion of user pages

If you wish to delete your own page, tag the oul' top of the oul' page with {{db-u1}}, and an administrator will delete it for you, what? However, note that user talk pages are normally not deleted.

Deletin' others' user pages

In general, other users' user pages are managed by that user. Holy blatherin' Joseph, listen to this. Except for blatant or serious matters, it is preferable to try contactin' the user before deletion (see above). However, unambiguous copyright violations, attack pages, promotional text, and privacy or BLP violations can be speedy deleted usin' a suitable template, such as {{db-attack}}, {{db-copyvio}} or {{db-spamuser}}; other pages likely to require deletion (or where remedial action is not taken) may be submitted to deletion discussion.

Take special care to speak appropriately and explain the bleedin' concern; many users will take it as a holy personal affront or attack if an unknown user announces they are goin' to delete a userspace image or page, and an uncivil or heavy duty approach can discourage new users who are unaware of expectations and might enjoy contributin'. Sure this is it. Remember that a limited amount of personal information (perhaps a short biography) and an oul' freely licensed tasteful personal photograph or two are usually allowed if the oul' page reasonably complies with other requirements.

Use of a feckin' user page as a feckin' personal web page unconnected with Mickopedia's mission may be a speedy deletion criterion, as is clear advertisin' and promotional use. Sufferin' Jaysus. A user's contributions that consist solely of an oul' lone edit to their user page should not normally be speedy deleted unless it consists solely of spam or other speedy deletable material. Test edits and the re-creation of deleted material (within limits) are permitted in user space.

Deletin' your user page or subpages

You can freely blank any pages in your user space yourself (other than the oul' few items that must not be removed) and request the bleedin' deletion of your user page or subpages, by addin' {{db-user}} to the oul' top of the feckin' page. Alternatively, you might consider simply makin' the bleedin' page redirect to your user page. Jaykers! This is normally sufficient for most people's needs. Subpages tagged for deletion will be deleted if there is no overridin' reason the oul' page must be kept.

Blankin' of user subpages is not interpreted as a bleedin' deletion request, see criteria for speedy deletion G7. If you want it deleted completely then use {{db-user}}.

Your talk page, pages which were moved into your user space from somewhere else, and user talk archives created by page move, may not be deleted in this way. Be the hokey here's a quare wan. These must be listed at Articles for deletion if they originated as articles, or Miscellany for deletion for anythin' else. Listen up now to this fierce wan. To move them back where they came from, ask at Mickopedia:Requested moves.

Deletion of user talk pages

User talk pages and user talk archives created by page move are generally not deleted; they are usually needed for reference by other users. Would ye believe this shite?Individual revisions, log entries, and other user space material may be deleted or redacted for privacy reasons or because of harassment, threats, gross offensiveness, and other serious violations. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Exceptions to this can be and are made on occasion for good reason. In addition, nonpublic personal information and potentially libelous information posted to your talk page may be removed as described above.

User special pages

The Special namespace contains many personal pages generated by software on demand. The virtual content of some special pages depends on preferences that have been set by the feckin' user, e.g. Jaykers! classic or enhanced Recent Changes, the feckin' number of titles in Recent Changes and the watchlist, etc.

User page search

By default, Mickopedia's search engine is restricted to the oul' Article namespace. Typin' the oul' project page prefix User: (User followed by an oul' colon) will provide search results for the "User namespace". Sure this is it. You can also use the bleedin' Special:Search box below to locate User pages, like. See Help:Searchin' for more information.

Notes

  1. ^ Treatment such as excusin', trivializin', or normalizin' these issues as tolerable or of little importance (for example, by explainin' support of vandalism as bein' 'humor' or edit warrin' as bein' valid for resolvin' content issues) will generally be seen as havin' the oul' same effect as condonin' the oul' behavior, and may also be removed.
  2. ^ Userspace drafts which do not meet article content standards should not be moved to mainspace in order to seek deletion. Whisht now. In case, an oul' userspace draft was moved to mainspace but is found not fit to be in mainspace, it must be returned to the parent location.
  3. ^ a b January 2020 RfC
  4. ^ March 2016 RfC
  5. ^ April 2016 RFC
  6. ^ There is no consensus holdin' time.
  7. ^ The community has taken many nude and sexual galleries to MFD. As an oul' guide:
    • Those created by known and respected long-standin' contributors, whose aim is clearly more to showcase our work and WP:NOT#CENSORED and that are not designed for self-amusement or for sexual provocation may be kept but even so have at times been MFD'ed multiple times or closed as "no consensus".
    • Those which use Mickopedia as personal webspace, are excessively focused upon sexual material, aim at "pushin' the feckin' edge" on freedom to use userspace, or make an oul' point, rather than project benefit, especially by editors with an oul' lesser record of positive contribution and cases where non-free imagery is a holy problem (1), tend to be deleted (2, 3).
  8. ^ February 2012 RFC. The RfC covered only banners that closely resemble the oul' one listed at § User talk notification in both wordin' and color. Bejaysus. As of 2013, the feckin' notification system has replaced user talk notification banners for registered users. It is still used for unregistered users and for registered users who have manually enabled it.
  9. ^ In such cases it may be appropriate to request revocation of talkpage access
  10. ^ Please refer to Mickopedia:Requests for comment/Protect user pages by default and its talk page for community discussion related to a feckin' preventative measure for user pages.

See also

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