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Another custom in wikis is to format the talk threads in a consistent way, using colons ( <code>:</code> ) to create indents from and thus identify whom you answer to. If a comment is located on ''n'' indents (colons) from the beginning of the line, then a reply to this comment should be placed on ''n+1'' indents (colons). This style of conversation is easy to follow and read. | Another custom in wikis is to format the talk threads in a consistent way, using colons ( <code>:</code> ) to create indents from and thus identify whom you answer to. If a comment is located on ''n'' indents (colons) from the beginning of the line, then a reply to this comment should be placed on ''n+1'' indents (colons). This style of conversation is easy to follow and read. | ||
== See also == | |||
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Talk_page Help:Talk page] from Meta-Wikipedia | |||
* [[Help:Contents]] for other help pages | |||
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Almost all pages, except the special ones are associated with respective discussion (talk) pages. If there is no discussion over the contents of a page, then the link to its talk page will be red. You can still discuss the page - you will just be the first person to do so.
It is custom to sign your comments in the discussion pages by typing four tildes ( ~~~~
or --~~~~
), transformed into link to userpage and server's date/time according to UTC. You may also use the button in edit mode.
Another custom in wikis is to format the talk threads in a consistent way, using colons ( :
) to create indents from and thus identify whom you answer to. If a comment is located on n indents (colons) from the beginning of the line, then a reply to this comment should be placed on n+1 indents (colons). This style of conversation is easy to follow and read.
See also
- Help:Talk page from Meta-Wikipedia
- Help:Contents for other help pages