CZ:User pages

The purpose of user pages is to be helpful to the development of Citizendium. Therefore, authors' user pages will be regulated by the Citizendium's constabulary. Authors (other than editors and constables) are required to provide only a statement about their personal interests and education. Rough clues as to age and location might be helpful to other users but are optional. Minors are asked not to include any personal information about themselves, including information about where they live, but they should still give some nonspecific information about their interests and education (no school names, please).

User pages must be limited to only the following sorts of information:

• Biographical information (your education, interests, etc.).
• Articles you have started or are watching.
• "To do" lists.
• Other helpful notes directly of personal use to you in your work on the Citizendium.
• Editors and constables will require further information (see below).

Among items that will not be permitted on user pages (or subpages):

• Collections of quotations from, or commentary upon, other users or their work.
• Personal essays, even if they concern the Citizendium. (Such commentary will be possible on other forums--not the Citizendium user space.)
• Wikipedia-style "user boxes," of any sort.
• Wikipedia-style "barnstars." If the Citizendium chooses any methods of recognizing users, it will differ from this one favored by Wikipedia.

Authors may not edit each others' user pages unless there is an explicit message to that effect on a person's page. Constables will have the authority to edit author user pages to make them in conformity with the above rules; they will, however, first make a request that the author him- or herself do it.

Note that we do not permit pseudonyms in "signatures" on the wiki; if you want to use a "signature" other than your full name, make sure it is part of your real name.