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New users on Wikipedia usually are unfamiliar with the site's policies and jargon. When they create a user page, they sometimes treat it as a profile on a social networking site, often in violation of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Wikipedia is not a social networking site and the user page project content guideline creates limits on what can and cannot be place on user pages. Newcomers may not realize that this also applies to the user space.