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User:CohuttaBlue/Userboxes

I had read a Wiklpedia article that said userboxes are a fun way to express personality on a user page. Apparently these have become controversial. I did use them to learn about formatting tables, though.

This user is quite perplexed; she ordered pie, not pi. X Ceci n'est pas une userbox. This user likes René Magritte Scat This user appreciates scatological art (blushes). This user is a bit eccentric. Art-N This user is a native Artist. This user breathes works of art. This user enjoys optical illusions, especially the impossible constructionsofM.C. Escher. This user currently resides on Planet Earth This user remembers the Stone Age This user learned touch-typing on a manual typewriter. This user is a loveable curmudgeon. This user is a Fraidy Cat. If startled, she leaps into the air and hisses, then runs and hides. This user likes cats, especially pretty little tabby cats. This user is a child at heart. This user participatesin WikiProject Georgia. This user has a Sandbox. This user is a participant in WikiProject Visual arts.

This user is a bit eccentric.

Decisions, decisions. To clutter, or not to clutter? They seem to discourage userboxes now. But everybody else has them, and they're so cute! Well, one little userbox can't hurt. Or are they like potato chips...?

Regarding eccentricity... Eh, hmmm. Twelve out of fourteen traits fit, with two others being true conditionally. Perhaps she is more than "a bit" eccentric.

Making Userboxes

Sigh. Try to refrain from making userboxes. Yes, they are new to you, and fun and cute... but they must be cluttering up Wikipedia by now, or there wouldn't be so many people saying "Don't make them, don't clutter up your page with them; or, if you must use them, use existing ones."

Userboxes are a convention dating back to some old Wikipedia or Wikimedia project, which made use of Babel. Userboxes were a convenient visual bookmark to catch the eye of foreign-language users and give them an easy starting point. Perhaps userboxes are just this side of being deprecated or otherwise obsolete. In other words, they are "old-school" for ancient Wikipedia editors. Maybe.

Anyway, common sense says, don't clutter Wikipedia's valuable server space with frivolous images. (They are tiny, though. Can they really take up that much space? even if there are millions of them? like gnats?)

Since the urge to play with userboxes (and eat potato chips) is difficult to resist, it may be helpful to read more about them.

• Fraidy Cat

• Vermeer

• Pie or Pi

• Eccentric

• Tabby Cats

• Child at Heart—(photo credit cc-by 2.0)

• Scatological Art

Derivatives Other people's ideas, adapted

• Loveable Curmudgeon

• Typewriter

Selected galleries

• Views about Wikipedia [1]

Userbox code

TO TEST A USERBOX:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Userbox/sandbox

CODE FOR A USERBOX:

Above: you may replace the property for "id=YourUserboxName" with a link to an existing Wikimedia image (and you must add code to manipulate the image size). See one of your existing userboxes for this code.

LIMITED LIST OF HEX COLORS https://www.color-hex.com/