Help:User Subpage

This is a small page about User Subpages.

What about user subpages?
If you need more pages, you can create subpages. More or less, you can have anything here that you might have on your user or user talk page.

Examples:
 * A work in progress, until it is ready to be released. This is typically not necessary, though some people do this especially for drafts of a page whose title is protected.
 * Archives of user talk
 * Tests; for testing a template, make it a separate subpage.
 * Sections of your user page that are big enough to require their own page, e.g. a page of awards you have received or pictures you have taken.

How do I create a user subpage?
In all namespaces except for the article namespace (where articles are created), it is possible to create a subpage of a "parent" page. So if a page is called "PAGE", a subpage of "PAGE" with the name "SUBPAGE" would be located at "PAGE/SUBPAGE".

User:Example/Lipsum is an example of a user subpage for User:Example. Your user page, if it exists yet, is here. If you wanted to create a user subpage called "Sandbox", you would find it here.

To link to a user subpage called "Sandbox" from your main user page, place the text
 * /Sandbox

on your page, or use a piped link with the same source. Make sure to experiment on your user page, not on this page! Do not forget the first forward slash or you will put the page in the main namespace as a regular article and will have to ask for deletion if you save what you write. If your user page does not have a subpage named "Sandbox", the link will appear to be red, indicating that a page has no content, and if you just navigate away without saving any content the page will not be created and there is nothing to delete.

Sandboxes are useful for testing changes to pages, but once you are sure of yourself regarding an edit, you can just click on the "Show preview" button, and proof-read thoroughly.