MisesWiki:User pages

User pages are pages in the User and User talk namespaces, and are useful for organizing and aiding the work users do on Mises Wiki, and facilitating interaction and sharing between users. User pages mainly are for interpersonal discussion, notices, testing and drafts, and, if desired, limited autobiographical and personal content. Edits to other users' user pages (except talk pages), without that user's permission, are frowned upon.

Spam
Spam user pages will be deleted. The most common type of spam that has been encountered on Mises Wiki is that in which a (possibly automated) new user signs up, makes a few edits outside the scope of the wiki mission in order to promote a business, product, person, etc. and does not make any useful edits to the wiki. On rare occasions, a new user with good intentions may engage in an editing pattern that appears superficially similar; i.e. he will edit his user page to introduce himself and link to his personal or business website, as a means of informing the community of his interests and activities, the better to find and collaborate with others who share those things in common.

There is not necessarily any way of knowing in advance whether that user will ever make useful edits or not; therefore, one has to decide whether it is better to err on the side of deletion (in an effort to deter spammers) or inclusion (in an effort to avoid accidentally biting newcomers who would have become productive editors). Newcomers can reduce the likelihood of such deletions by establishing an edit history of useful edits to the wiki before posting personal links, keeping such content to a minimum, adopting an informational rather than promotional tone, and avoiding linking to the types of blatantly disreputable sites (e.g. quack cures, pyramid schemes, etc.) commonly linked to by spammers.