User blog comment:Dopp/New Profile Design Now Live Across All Wikis/@comment-3441771-20110822035002/@comment-3388044-20110822053153

Firstly, anyone can edit a userpage if it is not protected. I just tried it with a test account that has no privileges other than autoconfirmed. Secondly, Staff are aware that the Delete and Protect options have disappeared from the Edit button pulldown menu. They are also aware that if you add to that pulldown, for example, a Purge button and/or an Edit intro button using JS imported from the dev wiki, that this is somehow being “blocked” in the user namespace. I was told that it is being looked into.

To perform these functions in the meantime, use the URL. Thus,

       
 *  Protect :
 *  Delete :
 *  Purge :
 *  Edit intro :