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A userbox is a small rectangular box that looks like this. Below are more examples.

Userboxes can come in many different styles and colors.

Userboxes can have one or two sideboxes.

A userbox (commonly abbreviated as UBX) is a small colored box (see examples to the right) designed to appear only on a contributor's User page as a communicative notice about the user, in order to directly (or even indirectly) help users collaborate more effectively on articles.

Using existing userboxes

A gallery of existing userboxes can be found in the FamilySearch Wiki:Userboxes/Gallery.

The {{clear}} template can be placed after the plain userbox if text is added on a new line immediately after it.

If you have a number of userboxes, you can put {{userboxtop}} before and {{userboxbottom}} after the list to order them together on your user page.

You will generally not add a userbox to another's user page, except in the case of recognition userboxes.

Creating a new userbox

The basic template used in creating new userboxes is {{Userbox}}. Basic examples are included in the template documentation. Alternatively a request for a new userbox can be added to the FamilySearch Wiki:Userboxes talk page.