`  :Sure, you're welcome. You're probably asking about what you can put on , your main user page, right? The main guideline for ``user space`` pages  is here. Even if you don't read that whole guideline page you should probably at least look at the table of contents. That will give you a pretty good idea about what's allowed and what isn't. ( You'll have to scroll down on the page to see the table of contents because the lead section is long. ) Further on in this message I've included some links where you can find examples: People put all kinds of things on their user pages, pictures of flowers or rocks or bowls of soup (yes, really!), a list of subjects they're interested in,  userboxes are very popular, quotations from famous people, there's just a huge number of possibilities. The idea is that whatever you put there is supposed to help the encyclopedia, at least in some very small way, but people get a whole lot of freedom about that. Read the guideline page if you want to be sure, but there's just a very wide choice as to the kinds of things you can put on your main user page.  :( Also, I know it'll sound really dumb for me to remind you of this, but of course you shouldn't put anything private on your user page that might let people figure out who you are in real life. You wouldn't want to put a picture of yourself, or a friend, or even your dog or cat there, for example, or an e-mail address, or your real name, or anything like that. That's what  this part of the guidelines page is about. And you probably also know this too, but everything you ever write anywhere on Wikipedia gets saved forever once you click the ``save page`` button. This is true for every page on Wikipedia, including this talk page, not just for article (``mainspace``) pages. Even if you change the page or remove the information later, whatever you wrote before will be saved in ``page history`` and anyone who wants to look can see it. If you do make a mistake and write any personal information you can and should ask for it to be removed even from ``page history``, but it's better just to keep your personal information to yourself in the first place. Like I said, though, I know it must sound really dumb to remind you of things like this, since you could probably teach a class about online privacy yourself! )  :A lot of people make their main user page look very fancy. Mine's pretty dull, but I suppose that could be a fun way to express your artistic side and learn more about how to edit, too.  This user-page design center looks like it could be useful if you want to try that. There's a ``user page hall of fame`` link from that page that has lots of good examples of user pages. It also includes some examples of users who have put private, personally-identifying information on their user page, which I think is a really bad idea, as I hope I've made clear.  :One thing that's both fun and useful is to create a ``user sandbox page`` for yourself where you can try things out and see how they look without having to worry about it at all if you make mistakes. You can do that by clicking this link: . It will be red when you first see it. The red color means that the page doesn't exist yet. When you click it, you'll go to an ``editing window``. Just type whatever you want and click ``Save page``. That will create the page, and the next time you see the link for the page the link will have turned blue. The blue color for a link means that the page does exist. You can always get back to it again by clicking that same link, although it will have turned blue by then if you do create the page. You'll learn other ways to get to it too, as you go along.  :If you want to you can use that personal sandbox page to try out things you might like to add to your own user page. If you see something you like on another page, just hit ``edit this page``, copy the wikicode for it, and then instead of clicking the ``Save page`` button, find the ``Cancel`` button near it and hit that instead. Then ``paste`` the ``wikicode`` to your sandbox page, and hit ``Preview`` to see how it looks. If you like the way it looks you can save it, or you can change it around first. I used my own sandbox page ( User:Ohiostandard/Sandbox ) that way when I was starting out, and I still use it a lot when I want to try something that I'm not completely sure will work right.  :Don't forget  the help desk if you get stuck or have a question. You can ask anything at all about how to edit or use Wikipedia there, no one will criticize you for asking anything, and the people who volunteer there are almost all very friendly and usually very experienced. ( Most of them are much more experienced than I am. ) It depends on what time of day you ask a question, but you should usually get an answer there within ten to thirty minutes. Anyway, I know this is a long answer to a short question, so delete it if you get tired of seeing it. You can always find it again in your talk page ``history``, if you want to, even after you delete it. Or you could ``collapse`` it, instead, by following  You'll have to click on the word ``edit`` (at the right side of that linked page) to see the wikicode that makes that work, of course, but you can ``collapse`` this long reply right here on your own talk page in just the same way. Or try it out on in your new Sandbox page, if you decide to go ahead and create that page.  :Oh, can I say one last thing? Like every other place on the web where strangers can contribute, we do have some very annoying people here: users who are rude, mean, dishonest, hard to work with, or whatever. We don't have very many of them, and those people usually get kicked out sooner or later, but if you stick around you're sure to run into some of them eventually. If that happens, the best plan is usually to ignore them, to just not answer. ( You've heard the expression, ``Don't feed the trolls``, right? It means to just ignore people who are being rude to try to get attention for themselves. ) Or if something bothers you, and you're not sure what to do,  the help desk would be a really good place to ask. It would even be perfectly fine to try that out before you need it, if you want to, just so you know how to use the help desk. Just post any question about editing or using Wikipedia that you'd like to know about, like maybe ``How do I underline one of the words I write on a talk page?`` or ``Do you know if there's a userbox to tell people I'm interested in gardens?``  :Have fun learning and contributing!  –   `