DareNET Wiki:User page

Revision as of 03:40, 6 August 2007

This document is a work-in-progress and does not necessarily at this stage represent the agreed upon policies of this wiki.

Your wiki username does not have to be the same as your IRC nickname; however, that is preferable. Remember, wiki usernames are case sensitive. If your user name is "Foo", then:

• Your wiki username will be Foo (note uppercasing)
• Your user page is the page at User:Foo
• Your user talk page is the page at User talk:Foo
• Your user subpages, are pages of the form User:Foo/bar or User talk:Foo/bar
• Your user space is the collection of all the above

The rest of this article is based heavily on Wikipedia:User page.

What can I have on my user page?

A good start is to add a little information about yourself, possibly including contact information (email, channels you can be found in, etc.), a photograph, your real name, your location, information about 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, but at a minimum you could give some information about your involvement with ChatX, which channels you frequent and so on.

You should feel free to use your user page to document any personal projects you're involved in, whether they are ChatX-related or not. You can use it to list "to do" information, work in progress, reminders, useful links, and so forth. It's also good for experimenting with markup (a personal sandbox).

Another use is to let people know about your activities and opinions about ChatX, IRC, the Internet, or pretty much anything. So you might include current plans, a journal of recent activites, and your opinions on the direction of various ChatX projects or how ChatX policies should be changed. If you won't be around ChatX for a while, drop a note on your user page to that effect.

For "flavour", you might like to add a favourite quote, some of your favourite articles or images, or something like that. In the unlikely event that your editing privileges on ChatX Wiki are revoked, a notice of this may be placed on your user page.

If you want to dual-license your contributions under an additional license or declare them all public domain, put a notice to this effect on your user page.

In general, avoid substantially editing another's user page without their permission, but feel free to correct typos and other mistakes. However, some users are fine with their user pages being edited, and may even have a note to that effect. Alternatively, if users ask you not to edit their user pages, it is probably best to respect their requests.

What can I have on my user talk page?

Your user talk page is for other users to discuss matters related to ChatX with you. As your user talk page approaches 32K, you may delete, archive, 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?

If you need more pages, you can create subpages. More or less, you can have anything here that you might have on your user or user talk page.

Examples:

• a work in progress, until it is ready to be released
• archives of user talk:
• tests; for testing a template, make it a separate subpage.

What should I avoid?

Generally, you should avoid any substantial content that is unrelated to ChatX. We are trying to build a community of our users and so, especially on user pages, we will be lenient and allow most content about yourself and your interests and activities.

Also, if you are a valued contributor to this site then the community will be more lenient still, but please don't take advantage of this to host substantial content that would be better on a personal web site.

Some things are completely out of line in your user space (as indeed they are anywhere):

• Use of ChatX Wiki as a personal file store
• Use of ChatX Wiki as a source of "free" bandwidth
• Personal attacks
• Hosting of large quantities of non-ChatX content that adversely affects our ability to host other, more appropriate content

Be aware that, at present, user page and talk page contributions must be licensed under the GFDL, just as articles are. Therefore, avoid putting anything on your user page (or anywhere in ChatX Wiki) that you would not be happy distributing under the GFDL.

Removal

If the community lets you know that they'd rather you deleted some or other content from your user space, you should probably do so, at least for now - such content is only permitted with the consent of the community. After you've been here for a year or so, and written lots of great articles, the community may be more inclined to let you get away with it. Alternatively, you could move the content to another site, and link to it.

If you do not co-operate, we will eventually simply remove inappropriate content, either by editing the page (if only part of it is inappropriate), or by redirecting it to your main user page (if it is entirely inappropriate).

In excessive cases, your user subpage may be deleted, following a listing on votes for deletion, subject to deletion policy. Please do not recreate content deleted in this way: doing so is grounds for immediate re-deletion (see candidates for speedy deletion).Instead, please respect our judgement about what is and is not appropriate.

How do I delete my user subpages?

If you don't want the hassle below, just replace your user subpage with a redirect to your user page. This is normally sufficient for most people's needs.

Unless you are a sysop, it is not possible to delete your own subpages, so they must be listed on Speedy deletions. If you are a sysop, it is recommended that you also list your pages there so they can be deleted by another sysop.

Only post subpages from your own personal page, and only if you have a genuine reason for requesting a personal subpage of yours be deleted, please list it on Speedy deletions.

How do I delete my user and user talk pages?

Where there is no significant abuse, and no administrative need to retain the personal information, you can request that your own user page or talk page be deleted. Most frequently, this occurs when a longterm contributor decides to leave.

The user page should be listed on votes for deletion, along with the reason you need the page deleted, so the community can agree that there has been no disruptive behavior meriting the retention of that personal information. If that is agreed, the page(s) may be deleted in order to eliminate general public distribution of the history containing the information. If the deletion occurs immediately, others may request undeletion if they feel there was in fact a need to retain the page. This discussion should take place on votes for deletion for a period not exceeding seven days following the deletion of the user and user talk page.

Sysops have the technical capability to do this themselves but must still use votes for deletion, not use that technical capability.