User blog:Penguin-Pal/Template Habit

Hi Everyone,

As most of you probably know, in case a user's user namespace Edit Count ratio is 40% or higher, their user page is protected. It doesn't mean that you should stop editing your user page or anything, but there are 2 main reasons for why doing this:
 * Encourage editing and expanding articles.
 * Prevent a situation on which someone doesnt contribute but just tells about himself in his user page or something similar.

Most users store some parts of their user page in the template namespace. There is nothing wrong with that, but i recently see more and more users that just store their entire user page in a single template or a few templates, and never edit their user page again, just to prevent reaching the 40% limit.

I just wanted to clarify, that there is nothing wrong with creating a template for parts of your user page, but please do not abuse this for changing your edit count ratio.

If you do want to change it- just make a few edits every day and perhaps upload an image once a while. Believe me- even if you do edit your user page often the odds of you even getting close to 40% are very low.

Another thing i want to point out- when creating a template, please select a decent page name- not something too short like Template:MyTemplates but it's recommended to have your user name in the beginning of the template name to prevent a situation on which a template name that is needed is already taken by someone who made it to store his user page.

Imagine User:Stub that created Template:Stub to store his user page, but then, one day, we need it for a template :P

Anyway, please keep that in mind. Have a happy editing, and enjoy the upcoming C-J party! :)

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  09:41, May 12, 2013 (UTC)