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Wikipedia:User page design guide/Menus and subpages

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Many users split their user page up into multiple pages and store the extra pages as subpages of their user page (like this: pagename/subpagename). Either their user page has grown too big to be a single page, or they like to keep their subjects more sectionalized. This creates a navigation problem, for typing the entire page name into the search box every time you want to go to a subpage is cumbersome, so one solution is to link the family of pages together with a common menu. The menu is stored in a subpage of its own, and is transcluded onto each page just like a template (that is, you just enclose the pagename inside of double curly brackets, {{like this}}. This affords the opportunity to add the talk page and special pages to the mix (like displaying the user's contributions and other display commands from Wikipedia's "special" menu). Some menus look just like navigation bars, others have icons, some are integrated into the page's border, and others are vertical lists (usually boxed). One example of an integrated user menu is mine at the top of this page. Here are some other examples of menus:

User:The Transhumanist/User page design/Menus/Menu1

User:The Transhumanist/User page design/Menus/Menu2

User:The Transhumanist/User page design/Menus/Menu3

User:The Transhumanist/User page design/Menus/Menu4

User:The Transhumanist/User page design/Menus/Menu5


User:The Transhumanist/User page design/Menus/Menu6


Subpages

  • Talk page
    • aka
      • Forum
    • Archives
  • Work page
    • aka
      • Office
      • Sandbox
      • Workshop
  • Toolbox
    • aka
      • Tool shed
      • Tool cabinet
      • Utility room
      • Armory
  • Control room
    • aka
      • Command console
      • Command center
    • Controls
      • Edit counter
      • Edit buttons
      • Purge buttons
      • Task buttons
      • Nav aids
      • Info boxes (templates)
  • Contacts
    • aka
      • Hall of fame
      • Users
      • User list
      • Users I admire
    • Format
      • Simple links
      • Edit counters
      • Link arrays
  • Menu
    • Format
      • List
      • Icons
      • Icons with Click
    • Samples
      • ElAmericano
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