Hello again, I gather that it the general agreement is that the User pages are for the users' own use, and that it is bad manners for other Wikipedians to edit them. Would it be sensible to formalise this as a definitive rule - in fact, to make the page protected from edits by anyone but the user and the sysops? Anyone who wishes to address the user would still be able to on the associated Talk page, of course. I don't know how difficult it would be to implement technically, but I think it would be a good move to prevent people from vandalising other people's User pages, as some are doing. As for my presence on the Wikipedia, my User contributions go back to 8th November 2002. (I made some anonymous edits earlier than that - back to 4th November 2002, the day on which I discovered the Wikipedia.) If you're only seeing a partial list, you're probably only looking at the last fifty, or those in the last few days, or something. And I repeat, if anyone has any problems with my behaviour, please tell me on my Talk page, or in a private e-mail. Thanks, Oliver +-------------------------------------------+ | Oliver Pereira | | Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science | | University of Southampton | | omp199(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk | +-------------------------------------------+