HammerWiki:User page policy
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Registered users may create user pages to describe themselves to and communicate with the community. User pages help in organizing editorial tasks and foster community spirit and camaraderie.
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[edit] Structure
If your username is "Example", then:
- Your user page will be at User:Example. This is the primary method of presenting information about yourself to other users.
- Your user talk page will be at User talk:Example. This is the primary method that other wiki editors will use to contact you.
- You can create user sub pages under your user page, such as User:Example/Subpage. These can be used to specify additional details about yourself or manage your projects.
- Your user space encompasses all of the above.
[edit] Suggested content
You are encouraged to present brief personal information and content related to the HammerWiki on your user space. You might consider adding:
- Personal details such as your location, areas of expertise and interest, likes and dislikes, or contact information (note that you can allow other users to e-mail you while still keeping it private by setting up an e-mail address in your preferences).
- Tools to help you or others use the wiki more effectively, such as task lists, advice and help for new users, or links to wiki pages you access frequently.
- Information about your activities on the HammerWiki, such as personal projects or your (constructive) opinions about certain articles and policies.
- Information about your activities in Warhammer Online, such as the names of your characters, your guild affiliation, or a synopsis of your particular interests or accomplishments.
- External links, provided they follow wiki policy.
- Some reasonably-sized images to supplement the types of content listed above.
Bear in mind that you are not required to create a user page or provide any of the information listed above. These are merely examples of constructive things you could put on your user spce.
[edit] Content restrictions
You have fairly broad leeway in creating user pages in your user space, but you should avoid content that is not relevant to Warhammer Online or the HammerWiki.
These are not permitted in any form:
- Libel or defamation.
- Material patently offensive to others, including EA Mythic's competitors.
- Material in breach of the wiki's policies or the game's terms and conditions.
Common sense and general etiquette hold sway. Do not include any material generally deemed offensive and insulting. Do not include copyrighted text or images that are not licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License or able to be relicenced as such.
Please do not categorize pages in your user space into categories used for mainspace articles. Avoid repeatedly creating links to pages that are not meant to exist, particularly joke links, as this will lower the utility of the list of wanted pages.
[edit] User image restrictions
- Avoid uploading a lot of large images or images that are larger than 150 kB in size.
- Do not use arbitrary or generic names. All personal image names must be prefixed with the word "User" followed by your user name (for example, an image named "User Example my necromancer.jpg" is valid).
- The description of the image must include the
{{user image}}template.
Failure to adhere to these rules may result in the image being deleted without warning.
[edit] Main user page restrictions
Your main user page is the primary page that other users will use to access your user space and to contact you. An excessively long or large page can be an inconvenience to others who just want to get to your talk page.
The combined contents on your main user page should not exceed 300 kB in total size. You can verify your page size simply by saving your user page with your browser and checking the resulting file size. Note that some browsers do not save the images used on the page, so you need to manually add the file sizes of any images to the file size of your user page.
[edit] User talk page restrictions
Your talk page should generally be treated like any other talk page on the wiki. Do not remove any comments, including your own. You may amend your comments to correct typos, but if you wish to change your comment significantly, strike out the portions that you are changing (use <s></s>). Comments constituting personal abuse may be removed as per HammerWiki:No personal attacks.
You are permitted to archive older comments as your talk page gets longer. Do so by copying or moving your talk page to an archive subpage, such as User talk:Example/Archive 1, and leave a prominent link to it from your main talk page. You may wish to use the {{archive-box}} template for this purpose. Discussions should be continued on a user's main talk page, rather than in their archives.
Do not put any formatting on your talk page that makes it more difficult for other users to leave you messages (such as borders, background colors, text highlights, font sizes, etc.).
[edit] Etiquette
- In general, content that does not relate to Warhammer Online or the HammerWiki should not be the main contribution of a user.
- If you do not want a user page, it is recommended that you create a redirect to your talk page by adding
#redirect [[User talk:YourUserName]]to your user page. This makes it easier for others to contact you via your signature. - While user pages are a fantastic way for users to explore creativity and practice with wiki code, the purpose of HammerWiki is to document the game. Users should focus their time and dedication on HammerWiki-related contributions.
- Be considerate of other users' requests to tone down or trim down your page and try to avoid controversial content and/or representation of content.
- When designing the look of your user page, try to follow the common sense guidelines that apply throughout the wiki. For example, employ user friendly formatting, keep your content succinct and concise and avoid using undesirable design aspects such as garish colors or animated text. The better presented your user page is, the more people will be interested in reading it. Creativity and ingenuity are always encouraged.
- When making edits to your user page or its subpages, always mark them as minor edits to allow them to be filtered from the list of recent changes. Use the 'Show preview' button to avoid doing multiple small edits to your user page, instead of saving the changes every time.
- If you have information that you intend to update regularly, consider using inclusions to stop edits from popping up on other users' watchlists. For example, if you are tracking the progress of a title in an infobox and find yourself amending it daily, consider putting the infobox onto a separate page, such as "User:Yourname/Infobox" and including it into the main page as
{{User:Yourname/Infobox}}. Any edits made to this subpage will not show up to people watching your talk page, but are kept current if they view your user page. Note that any subpage inclusions still fall under the main content restrictions of this policy.
[edit] Ownership
HammerWiki allows users to manage their own user space as they see fit within the rules and guidelines laid out above. However, users should keep the following in mind:
- User space contributions must be licensed under the GFDL, or a compatible license, just as any other contribution in the HammerWiki.
- By convention, users will usually refrain from directly editing your user page, although they are not technically prevented from doing so. If you spot a problem with another user's page, leave them a comment and let them fix it themselves. You should probably refrain even from correcting spelling and grammar on other users' pages (but feel free to point it out to them!). If you don't mind other users editing your user pages, please state so clearly on the pages themselves.
- Generally, the basic HammerWiki policies apply to your user space. In particular, no personal attacks are acceptable in your user space or anywhere in the wiki. Content in your user space that violates policy may be removed by another user.
