User:Batsondl/Sandbox 13

Purpose of User Page
A user page is a Wiki page about a Wiki contributor. It is a feature in the Wiki for the purpose to facilitate communication among participants and bring the online community closer together. Other users and contributors will learn about you and your interest in family history. If you have editing rights, you can create your own user page. Other users will see links to your user page from various places, such as Recent Changes and View History pages. You can link to your user page within the text of a Wiki page which is mainly use used on talk pages when you Sign your name.


 * Create a user page

Creating your User Page
To create your user page, do the following: NOTE: It's important that your user page displays your username. Do not use the DISPLAYTITLE template to overwrite the name of your user page. Other Wiki users need to be able to see a Wiki contributor's username. If you wish to display your own name on your user page, list your name using a header one at the top of your page. (i.e., = Your Name =)
 * 1) Sign in to the Research Wiki using your FamilySearch account
 * 2) Locate your username at the top right side of a Wiki page. This is the link to your user page.
 * 3) Click on your username. It should currently be red.
 * 4) A page will appear that says, "There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or create this page."
 * 5) Click on "create this page" link
 * 6) This will open your page in wikitext. Instructions' on how to edit in wikitext.

What to put on your User Page
Some appropriate content for a user page includes:
 * A list of your main areas of interest are in relation to the topic of the Wiki
 * Describe contributions you have made or areas you are interested in contributing
 * An abbreviated personal profile including where you live
 * NOTE: The Research Wiki is not a general hosting service, so your user page is not a personal website. Content on user pages should follow the '''FamilySearch Research Wiki Terms of Use.

Userboxes
Many users share with others their language skills and/or other interests by displaying boxes on their user page. User boxes are small, colorful boxes that denote membership in a group or expertise in a specific area. Visit the Userbox gallery to see if there are boxes that are appropriate for display on your user page. You must use wikitext to add the userbox to your User Page. You can also create userboxes for use on your page.

User Contributions
When viewing another person's user page, an additional link, "user contributions", appears in the 'toolbox' area (bottom right). This takes you to a list of all of this user's wiki edits.

Editing someone else's page
It's generally considered poor etiquette to rewrite or reword another person's user page. Editing is not disallowed, but you should avoid adding information (or especially opinions) which might be misinterpreted as coming from that user in situations where this could potentially cause a problem. To communicate with a User, instead use their User's Talk page.

Some types of edits are widely acceptable and unlikely to cause any problems:
 * Fixing Wiki article links when a page has been moved or deleted
 * Fixing broken external links
 * Categorizing or fixing categories of user pages.
 * FamilySearch reserves the right to edit a userpage to conform to the policies of the Wiki and Terms of Use.

User Sandboxes
Creating your user page allows you to have a scratchpad space - an area for developing ideas without cluttering the main namespace. These pages are an extension of your user page and are called sandboxes. You may create sandboxes to assist in writing content on the Wiki, without changing Wiki pages in the main namespace. It also allows you to make edits on a page without scrutiny of other users. A personal sandbox link is found under the Edit the Wiki menu on the navigation bar on the left side of the screen. There is also a link in the top right hand corner of the screen above the search field.

More information:
 * Creating a Sandbox
 * About the Sandbox.
 * Practice Editing your Sandbox

Guidelines for User Pages
A user account should be used only by one person, and in most cases, one person should have only one account.

Name of User Page
Your user page is automatically named after your username you chose when you register for a FamilySearch account. It is preferred that a user keep the username as the title of the page. However, there may be circumstances when a user would prefer their actual name to be displayed as the page title. Use the DISPLAYTITLE magic word to override the title of the page. The wikitext code would be:. If DISPLAYTITLE is used to override the title of the user page, a header 2 must be at the top of the page, stating the username of the contributor.

If a user would prefer to have their actual name displayed at the top of the page Your User Page must display your correct username (the one you log into the wiki with) as the page title. You should not override the page title so that the user name does not show. For example: if your username is Genealogy223 and your real name is Dale Smith, then the title of your wiki user page will be Genealogy223, not Dale Smith. This is to assist others in identifying which edits and contributions you have made.

Terms of Use
FamilySearch Terms of Use require contributors not to use their User page as a forum for conjecture, gossip, or debate about the priorities, motives, processes, policies, or competence of FamilySearch or its personnel. These activities fall outside of the scope and use of this site and may result in loss of Editing rights.

Terms of Use''.
 * ''FamilySearch reserves the right to edit a userpage to conform to the policies of the Wiki and