When viewing an article (or any other non-talk page), a link to the
corresponding talk page appears on the "discussion" tab at the top of the page.
Click this tab to switch to the talk page; you can then view the talk page and
its history, and edit it if you want to add a question or comment.
If the "discussion" link is red, it means no talk page has been started yet.
Click the red link to begin a talk page for that article. (It is also possible
for a talk page to exist while the corresponding non-talk page is a red link;
this often occurs in User space, when a user has received talk page messages but
has not started a user page yet.)
To go back to the article page from its talk page, use the leftmost tab at the
top of the page, labeled "article". For pages other than articles, this tab may
say something different, like "user page" or "project page".
Talk page use
Sign your contributions
You should sign and date your contributions on all talk pages. To do this
easily, type four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comment, or just click the
signature button on the row of buttons above the edit box. This will be
automatically converted into a user signature and the date and time. (You can
change the form of your signature using your user preferences.)
Sections
See also: Wikipedia:Talk page layout
To discuss a new topic, start a new section by going to a new line and typing a
title like this: == Heading ==, replacing "Heading" with a suitable title for
the topic you wish to raise. Place new discussions at the bottom of the page.
You can also use the tab labeled "new section", at the top of a talk page, which
performs these steps automatically.
To respond to a discussion already in progress, add your comment below the last
entry in the discussion. If you want to respond to a specific comment, you can
place your response directly below it. When doing this, keep in mind the advice
given below about indentation.
Indentation
Indentation is used to keep talk pages readable. Comments are indented to show
whether they are replies to other comments, and if so, which ones.
Comments are indented using one or more initial colons (:). Each colon
represents one level of indentation. You will see these colons in the wikitext
when editing a talk page, but when viewing the page itself you will see the
indents.
The first comment in a section will have no colons before it. When you reply to
a statement, you should use one more colon than the number that appear in the
statement you're replying to. For example, if you're replying to a statement
that has 2 colons before it, your response should have 3 colons before it.
The following is an example of a talk page discussion using indentation. The
text typed in the edit box is shown on the left, and the resulting display on
the right.
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