Topic on Project:Village Pump

When I tried to create a new userpage, I got this peculiar problem: File:Bobrayner pagecreation problem.jpg

• MediaWiki is trying to warn me that I'm creating a new page, but this notice can seemingly only be triggered by users who willingly click on the "Create" link or similar (not just by navigating to a currently-redlinked page), so why is a warning necessary?
• The notice is malformed and unreadable, apparently due to being put inside a narrow frame which takes up the left half of the notice area, and the leftmost strip of the warning is devoted to a pointless image which only takes a small % of the vertical height.
• Also, on trying to search this page for any related issue, I get "An error has occurred while searching: HTTP request timed out.". Sorry if this is a duplicate.

Any suggestions?

The first two appear to be some VisualEditor issue. The other is about the old search system which is being discountinued (see Search) but still has some leftovers: please use Special:Search instead.

The first (the warning) is triggered when you navigate to a redlink. Go to Special:RecentChanges and click on any red-linked username, and you'll get the same message at the top of the wikitext editing window.

The second is a problem with the design of the template. It was designed to be displayed on a particular shape of a screen. You'll see the same mess in the wikitext editor if you have a very narrow screen (e.g., anyone using a smartphone over Mobile web, or if you drag your browser window to be narrow). It should be possible to make the text wrap around the icon, but the person designing it (years ago) was only thinking about how it would display for desktop users using the wikitext editor (because that's pretty much all there was back then).