Help:Talk page
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There are two types of talk pages, sometimes also called discussion pages:
- The talk pages that are attached to every article on Sunshine Review. These are used to discuss the article to which they are attached. Look at the horizontal menu bar at the top of this article for the menu tab that says "discussion". That is this page's talk page. See Help talk:Talk page for this article's "talk" or "discussion" page.
- User talk pages, which are used to communicate with other users or leave them messages.
If there has never been any text on a talk page, the link to the talk page from the article, category, etc., will be red. You can still discuss the page – you will just be the first person to edit the respective talk page.
Article talk pages are there so users can talk with each other about the content of that specific article.
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Accessing a talk page
To access a talk page look for a tab or link labelled talk, discussion, or Talkpage. These menu tabs or links are found in the horizontal menu bar at the top of the article in question.
The name of a standard talk page is "Talk:" plus the article's title. For example, the talk page of the article Ten-point Transparency Checklist is Talk:Ten-point Transparency Checklist. For a page name that has a prefix, "talk" is added to the prefix before the colon. For example, the talk page associated with the user page User:Leslie is User talk:Leslie.
You have new messages
After someone else edits your user talk page, the alert "You have new messages" is automatically displayed on all pages you view, until you view your user talk page, if you have a registered account.
Using talk pages
On a talk page, "this page" usually refers to the main page (i.e. the page the talk page is associated with). If the talk page itself is referred to, write "this talk page".
The "Post a comment" feature (the small "+" sign on a separate tab, at the top of a talk page) allows you to start a new section without needing to edit the whole page. The section header becomes the edit summary at the time you save the page, so there is no edit summary displayed when you use this feature.
Formatting
The wiki software platform used by Sunshine Review allows a wide variety of formatting styles. We suggest the following way to format discussions on talk pages:
The reference of a comment is determined by the number of colons (':') in front of it. If a reply is made to a statement, you can add another colon to the number of colons used in the statement being replied to. This style of conversation is easy to read.
Example:
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How's the article going? --[[User:January|Leslie]] |
The above will produce this:
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How's the article going? --Leslie
I think this discussion should be moved to Sunshine Review:Editorial discussions.. --Kristinpedia
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Placing material from the article on a talk page
Sometimes it is necessary to display a sentence or paragraph from the article on the talk page so that other editors can easily understand what is being discussed.
In order to place quoted material within the body of a talk page, just indent one space. Include line breaks or it will run as one long line off the page to the right. This method is only effective for a small amount of text.
Indent one space to quote words, phrases, or short sentences.
You can even move text inward.
