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 :: Personally, I give users leeway in what they put on their userpage proportional to how seriously they contribute to the project; someone who never makes any edits really shouldn't make a userpage just to promote their work, but someone who edits regularly  especially where that editing is related to their life outside of Wikipedia  is not only welcome to describe their other life-work, but should be encouraged to do so.  You have been editing Wikipedia for a fair bit longer than I have, for which I salute you -) – "