Help talk:Editing

So, I'm new to working on Wikis and I'm completely confused as to how to simply edit my profile page. On my profile page there is a yellowish box that says I'm a "new user" and it tells me to remove something that says "new user" from the top of the page. However, when I go into "edit page" mode, the only portion that says "new user" is the paragraph box I just read.

User:VeRAWR is my profile and this is what I'm referring to:

I've gone to "Contribute: Edit this page" as well as the "Edit profile" option and neither show a "" that needs to be deleted. There is also no additional section that tells me how to edit this.

Help, please!?

~*I am GRRL, Hear me RAWR*~ (talk) 18:55, August 15, 2012 (UTC)

Hey VeRAWR, it's just asking you to remove the piece of code that says  . Just go edit your page, and remove that little piece and the yellow box will be gone.

Redmaniac333 (talk) 20:36, August 15, 2012 (UTC)

Either I'm really dense or this situation is unique to me. I've included a screenshot of what my edit page looks like. If you go through the lines you can see that the only place where it says the "newuser" is inside that box. If I delete the word "nouser" the box remains there, just minus that word. Does that make sense? Here's a pic... I'm really hoping this isn't just a PEBCAC. (In the preview of my edit, the pic is chopped off, and I'm hoping that is not the case in live.)



~*I am GRRL, Hear me RAWR*~ (talk) 20:47, August 15, 2012 (UTC)

So actually our Wiki profile starting page is pretty stupid, haha. After looking at your picture you're going to need to just remove that whole top section. Delete everything before  {| class="infobox" . Sorry about that VeRAWR, hope that helps!

Redmaniac333 (talk) 20:54, August 15, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much, User:Redmaniac333. I was afraid to do that, lol. I guess that gets added to the list of things that need to be further edited :P

~*I am GRRL, Hear me RAWR*~ (talk) 21:00, August 15, 2012 (UTC)

I went and fixed the mediawiki page so that when a new user registers/makes their first edit, it substitutes the userpage template (I just copy/pasted the old mediawiki stuff to userpage). Had to make ( and ) for it to work... I still don't fully understand WHY it works, but it now copies over the comments and portions properly... Damn confusing wikia formatting =.=

Natsunya (talk) 01:11, August 16, 2012 (UTC)