Help:Talk Pages

The intention of this guide is to assist in the understanding and use of talk pages. For more information regarding editing in Articles, please see Help:How To.

Every Article consists of a special extra page refered to as a talk page. It's intention is for discussion regarding concerns or suggestions of the specific article's style and content, not subject matter. The talk page is displayed as a Discussion button on the left hand corner of the main article page. Clicking it will send you to the talk page.

Content

It is recommended to try and keep the conversation going on one page to avoid confusion. That way, another user who may benefit in any way from the discussion can easily follow the conversation. Users do not recieve notifications if one has replied to their topic, hence they might forget. If this occurs, you can pop by that users own talk page and leave a message there! This way, users do get notifications, reminding them to check there.

For an example of a good talk page, please follow this link: Talk:Main Page.

Attributions

On an Articles talk page, attributions are executed by typing four tidles which automatically presents your username link and time of contribution. It is vital that an attribution is included to ensure users of who was involved within the contribution.

Code for Attribution:

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Montario 21:25, 2 August 2011 (BST) - This would be the initial outcome of displaying the code, though with your own username displayed.

Sections

When starting a new contribution, always apply a level two header, with your topic title displayed inbetween. When replying to a topic, indent, then display a colon (:), followed by your contribution. If a topic goes as far as six replies, this is how it must be displayed if you want to avoid any major confusion and untidiness:

==Test Topic==
This is a test topic.
:Reply 1
::Reply 2
:::Reply 3
::::Reply 4
Reply 5
:Reply 6

Content

Attributions

Sections

Test Topic

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