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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).
Some examples are provided below.
To use one of these, press edit above, and copy the name of the menu you want to use (but without the curly brackets) and paste it into the search box to the left and press "Go". Then press edit again and select and copy the whole page (using ctrl-C). Then create a new page called User:USERNAME/Menu, and paste what you copied to there. Edit it to customize it to your purposes, and save. Then transcribe your menu page to your user and talk page (and/or to any of your other user subpages) by including it in curly brackets, like this: {{User:insert name here/Menu}}. Have fun.
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The menu is located at the absolute top of this page, next to your user name.
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A subpage is a page "under" another page. Your userpage may be the parent page for as many subpages as you need.
Here are some typical names for subpages of user pages:
Note that subpages can have subpages under them as well, and so on. Like this: User:user name/subpage level one/subpage level two/etc.
You can create subpages in userspace as private 'sandboxes'. You can use this space to experiment with Wiki syntax, or to work on articles without worrying about whether the article is ready to go public. Remember that:
<nowiki>[[Category:Australians]]</nowiki>
produces [[Category:Australians]]<!-- [[Category:Australians]]-->
produces absolutely nothing[[:Category:Australians]]
instead of [[Category:Australians]]
(note the extra colon): this produces
Category:Australians.