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User contributions pages are automatically generated pages that list any change, deletion, or addition that an individual user has made in any namespace on the English Wikipedia.
You can check your own contributions to refresh your memory about which pages you have worked on (and to easily access them again), and also to find out whether there have been any subsequent edits (see item 18 in the Using the page section below). This can be a useful, quick alternative to accessing your watchlist, particularly if your watchlist contains many pages. Other users' user contribution pages can also be accessed and are useful for seeing how other users have contributed. They can be used to track down vandalism, serial copyright violations, etc.
You can also search users' contributions using the tools listed here.