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== What can I have on my user talk page? == | == What can I have on my user talk page? == |
Revision as of 02:49, 17 January 2005
The Homestar Runner Wiki provides user pages to facilitate communication among participants in the project. If your username is JohnDoe:
- Your user page is the page at "User:JohnDoe"
- Your user talk page is the page at "User talk:JohnDoe"
- Your user space is the collection of all the above.
Details about yourself shouldn't go in the main namespace, which is reserved for Homestar Runner content.
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What can I have on my user talk page?
Your user talk page is for other users to discuss matters related to the Wiki with you. As your user talk page becomes larger, you may choose to delete or summarise old discussion, as you feel appropriate. Please avoid deleting discussion merely because it is critical of your actions - doing so will only make people repeat the same criticism, and will make you seem like you are ignoring criticism.
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.
What about user subpages?
Subpages are never allowed.
What should I avoid?
Generally, you should avoid any substantial content that is unrelated to the Homestar Runner Wiki. Examples include:
- A weblog relating your non-Homestar Runner Wiki activities
- Discussion not related to the Homestar Runner Wiki
- Excessive personal information
- Opinion pieces not related to the Homestar Runner Wiki or other non-encyclopedic material
- Communications with people uninvolved with the project
Free and low-cost web hosting, email, and weblog services are widely available, and are a good alternative for content unrelated to the Wiki.
Particularly, 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.
Ownership and editing of pages in the user space
As a tradition, the Homestar Runner Wiki offers wide latitude to users to manage their user space as they see fit. However, pages in user space still do belong to the community:
- Contributions should always respect the copyrights of The Brothers Chaps.
- Other users may edit pages in your user space.
- Community policies apply to your user space just as they do elsewhere.
- In some cases, material that does not somehow further the goals of the project may be removed (see below).
In general, if you have material that you do not wish for others to edit, or that is otherwise inappropriate for the Homestar Runner Wiki, it should be placed on a personal web site. Many free and low-cost web hosting services are available to serve such needs.
What other information is accessible to others from my user page?
In addition to the usual information accessible from an article page such as page history, "Discussion" and the like, other users at the Homestar Runner 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 "E-mail this user" if you have opted in your preferences to be able to send and receive email.