Help:Talk page
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Every page on this site has a Talk (or Discussion) page attached to it. The Talk page attached to your User page is where other users leave messages for you. After someone has left a message on your talk page, the next time you login you will see a yellow banner announcing that you have messages. (You can tell if you are on a Talk page when the title begins "User talk:".)
There is a Discussion page for each article page, too. These pages are used to discuss the article — questions about the page, compliments about the page, and so forth.
If there is no discussion started about a page, the link to its talk page is red. You can still discuss the page - you will just be the first person to do so.
On the WWR website there are some pages where the action is on the talk page rather than the main page. (Ask Mr. Monkey, Bug reports) This is because they are meant to be conversational type pages.
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Accessing a talk page
To access a talk page look for a link labelled "Talk", "Discussion" or "Discuss this page". These links are either at the top of the page or on the left hand side (near "Edit this page").
The title of a talk page begins "Talk:", "User talk:Username", or in some cases title prefixes are something like "Help talk:".
After someone besides yourself edits your user talk page, the alert "You have new messages" is displayed on all the pages you view until you view your user talk page.
User talk pages
The talk pages of individual users are a bit more personal than the talk pages of article-type pages.
Many users like responses to messages on both their page and the talk page of the person they messaged. For instance, Joe leaves a message on Martha's talk page. Martha responds on her talk page and saves it, AND then copies the message and response onto Joe's talk page.
Some people like messages just in one place.
Whichever is your preference, it helps to state that preference on the top of your talk page.
Using talk pages
On a talk page, "this page" usually refers to the main page (i.e. the page to which the talk page is associated). If the talk page itself is being referred to, write "this talk page".
New topics on talk pages are added to the bottom of the talk page.
The "Post a comment" feature allows convenient appending of a section with the section header the same as the edit summary, and typed only once. Click the plus sign link at the top of any talk page to use this feature.
Sign your contributions to talk pages by typing three or four tildes
| What you type | What you see |
~~~ | Username |
~~~~ | Username timedate |
Usage of talk pages by namespace
| Namespace | Talk page usage |
| Main | Discussion about the attached page |
| User | Messages to the User to which the Talk page is attached. These talk pages are rather like Wheatgrams. |
| Image | Discussion about the attached image |
| Category | Discussion about the attached category |
| Template | Description of the template and instructions for its usage, in addition to discussion about the template. |
| WWR | Discussion about the attached page |
| Help | Discussion about the attached page |
| MediaWiki | Discussion about the attached page |
| Special | n/a |
| Chat | Undetermined. |
| Artists | Discussion about the attached page. Comments about the artists go on the main page. |
| Albums | Discussion about the attached page. |
| Songs | Discussion about the attached page. |
| Audmag | Undetermined. |
| Underwear | Discussion about the attached style sheet. |
| Blog | Undetermined. |
| Archives | Discussion about the attached page. |
External links
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