Help:Talk pages

A talk page is a discussion page that you can find attached to some articles and user pages. Talk pages exist for communicating with other users and discussing how to improve a wikia.

Article talk page
To get to an article talk page from the article, click the "Talk" icon next to the "Edit" button at the top of the page. To leave an article talk page message, follow these steps:


 * Click "Add topic" ( [[File:AddTopicButton.png]] ) to create a new discussion area.
 * Enter your message in the editor window. At the end of your message, type four tildes (" ~ "). This will generate a signature with your name when you hit Publish.
 * Enter the title of your message in the "Subject/headline" text field near the Publish button.
 * If needed, it can be helpful to click the Preview button to check your work.
 * Click Publish.
 * To respond to a talk page message, simply edit that section of the talk page, and indent your reply. You can indent by putting a colon (":") or bullet (" * ") at the front of each line. Be sure to sign your response with ~.
 * Article talk pages are often a place to resolve disagreements about an article, so remember to be friendly and civil in all of your interactions there.

User talk page
To get to a user talk page from a user profile, click the "Talk page" tab. To leave a message on the talk page, follow these steps:


 * Click the "Leave message" ( [[File:Leave message.png]] ) button at the top of the talk page.
 * Enter your message in the editor window. At the end of your message, type four tildes (" ~ "). This will generate a signature with your name when you hit Publish.
 * Enter the title of your message in the "Subject/headline" text field near the Publish button.
 * If needed, it can be helpful to click the Preview button to check your work.
 * Click Publish.
 * To respond to a talk page message, simply edit that section of the talk page, and indent your reply. You can indent by putting a colon (":") or bullet (" * ") at the front of each line. Be sure to sign your response with ~.

Archiving talk pages


Archives of talk pages are made when a talk page becomes too long for either the user to easily find a past conversation or for one's web browser to render the talk page in a timely manner. An archive is simply a subpage of the user talk page where old conversations are stored (e.g. ).

To create an archive, open the "Add topic" menu or "Edit" menu  by clicking on the arrow, and select "Archive". This will open the archive tool.

Use the tool to select which lines you wish to archive.
 * The "Select all" and "Deselect all" buttons ( [[File:ArchiveSelectionButtons.png]] ) can be used to quickly select everything or undo your selections.
 * Click on a line to select or deselect it.
 * Click on the box beside a section to select or deselect the whole section.

When you are done click "Save archive" and the tool will do all the copying and template additions needed to archive what you have selected.