Wikipedia:User page

This page is a guideline on the Simple English Wikipedia. Many editors agree with the ideas on this page. It is a good idea to follow it, but it is not policy. You can change the page as needed, but please use the talk page to make sure that other editors agree with any big changes.

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For usernames in general, see Wikipedia:Username (WP:USERNAME).

Wikipedia provides user pages for easier communication between people in its project to build an encyclopedia.

If your username is Example:

• Your user page is the page at User:Example (or Special:Mypage)
• Your user talk page is the page at User talk:Example (or Special:Mytalk)
• Your user subpages are pages of the form User:Example/Lipsum (Special:Mypage/Lipsum) or User talk:Example/Lipsum (Special:Mytalk/Lipsum).
• Your user space is the collection of all the above.

The Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk special pages will take each user to her or his own user and user talk pages. Others will not be able to find your user page using Special:Mypage, they will be able to visit it only by going to User:Example (for the example user).

Details about you generally should not go in the main namespace (where the articles are), which is only for content suitable for an encyclopedia.

If you do not want to have a user page, then you should redirect it to your user talk page to make it easier for other editors.