Adele Wiki's user page policy is meant to encourage users to work more on articles, and not spend all of their time on customizing their user pages. As the policy page What Adele Wiki is Not states:
- Adele Wiki is not a free host or webpage provider.
- Adele Wiki is not a form of social media such as Facebook or Twitter.
- Your user page is not your primary contribution to this wiki.
However, user pages do serve a useful purpose, and regular users are encouraged to create a user page which gives some information about themselves, and helps organize their contributions to Adele Wiki. For example, they may advertise contributions they are proud of or list articles they intend to work on. They may also include their user name on other wikis or fan sites, link to a personal page on another site, list the languages they speak, or talk about their favorite Adele songs. For more information on what user pages can be used for, see Wikipedia:User page.
Thus, we discourage users from working primarily on user pages. All users and their user pages must comply with the following rules.
Rules for user page use
User pages in violation of the following policies will be edited or deleted in order to comply with these policies. Users repeatedly in violation of these rules may be blocked according to our blocking policy's rules for registered users.
- User page fan fiction must be restricted to either the main user page or a single subpage. This does not mean a user can put fanon on both a user page and a subpage, or on a series of subpages.
- User pages and images within must be "safe for work," meaning no content which is unsuitable for a family audience or would be likely to disturb or offend other users. Any illegal or inappropriate content or links to such material is forbidden.
- User subpages not containing fan fiction may be kept, subject to the user image policy and some usefulness to the project (like a personal sandbox, a to do list, a contributions page—excluding image galleries—or a toolbox linking to maintenance tasks and useful templates.)
- User subpages unrelated to Adele or Adele Wiki are not allowed.
- This specifically includes blogs, guestbooks, and social networking more suited to sites such as MySpace or Facebook. Guestbooks should be put at Wikia Guestbook.
- Likewise, a guestbook section or a blog should not be put on a user's main page.
- User pages must not be put in categories which would cause them to be mistaken for "real" articles.
- Secondary accounts set up primarily in order to have a second user page are disallowed, according to the Sock puppetry policy page.
- If a user wishes to change his or her name, their old pages must be either moved to subpages of the new user name's page, or deleted. The original user page may be kept, if content is restricted to a note redirecting the reader to the new user name.
- All users with no contributions for more than 12 months are considered inactive. Their user pages should be replaced with {{inactive}} to inform other users of their status.
Excessive user page edits
Remember, Your user page is not your primary contribution to this wiki. Users who edit their user pages excessively will be subject to sanction.
- Excessive user page editing, in this case, is defined as over 500 user page edits to less than 100 useful main space/template/category edits. (To check your edit count, enter your user name at Special:Editcount.)
In cases of excessive user page edits, admins will protect offending pages after a warning. These pages may be unprotected after the user has begun making useful edits to articles.