Template:User

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Note to editors: Please don't categorize this template by editing it directly. Instead, place the category in its documentation page, in its "includeonly" section.

Note: This template is used on a lot of pages. In order not to put too much load on the servers, edits should be kept to a bare minimum.
Please discuss proposed changes on the talk page first.
Editing a template causes all pages that use the template to be re-rendered. If the Template is used often, this can put a lot of load on the servers since it fills up the job queue. [statistics]

Template:User provides a handy way to point to a wiki users profile.

Writing {{User|Jon Doe}} is equivalent to [[User:Jon Doe|Jon Doe]].

It is also equivalent to [[User:Jon Doe|]] which is almost exactly the same amount of work to write, but decreases the load on the Wiki.