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Talk pages are 100% completely identical to normal pages in how they work. You can use all wikitext markup tricks in talk pages, the software does not handle them differently. The following are the basics: | Talk pages are 100% completely identical to normal pages in how they work. You can use all wikitext markup tricks in talk pages, the software does not handle them differently. The following are the basics: | ||
Reply under subject headers. Indent your messages in responding to other editors using colons. Sign off your posts with your signature of <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> as standard. For example, a fictional conversation between two editors you might find on the [[Differentials]] talk page: | Reply under subject headers. Indent your messages in responding to other editors using colons. Sign off your posts with your signature of <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> as standard. Be sure to notify users using the template <nowiki><code>{{re|User}}</code></nowiki> For example, a fictional conversation between two editors you might find on the [[Differentials]] talk page: | ||
<code><nowiki>==Difference between diffs and normalised==</nowiki><br> | <code><nowiki>==Difference between diffs and normalised==</nowiki><br> | ||
<nowiki>Hey guys, what should be the advice given about differentials? ~~~~</nowiki><br> | <nowiki>Hey guys, what should be the advice given about differentials? ~~~~</nowiki><br> | ||
<nowiki>:Differentials should be 1-2 diopters below your normalised prescription. We should put this in the lead section of the article. ~~~~</nowiki><br> | <nowiki>:{{re|User}}Differentials should be 1-2 diopters below your normalised prescription. We should put this in the lead section of the article. ~~~~</nowiki><br> | ||
<nowiki>::Oh great, many thanks! ~~~~</nowiki></code> | <nowiki>::{{re|OtherUser}}Oh great, many thanks! ~~~~</nowiki></code> | ||
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<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> | <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> | ||
: | :[[User:User|User]] ([[User talk:User|talk]]) 14:08, 20 May 2020 (UTC) | ||
<nowiki>~~~</nowiki> | <nowiki>~~~</nowiki> | ||
: | :[[User:User|User]] ([[User talk:User|talk]]) 14:08, 20 May 2020 (UTC) | ||
Forgetting to use signatures will leave everyone confused really quickly, so please make it a habit to include <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> at the end of all your messages on talk pages! :) | Forgetting to use signatures will leave everyone confused really quickly, so please make it a habit to include <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> at the end of all your messages on talk pages! :) | ||
===Notifying other users=== | |||
When you reply to a user on any other talk page aside from their own talk page, they won't be notified unless you remember to send a notification template to them. This is super easy to do!! | |||
When responding to people, type the following at the beginning of your message: | |||
<code><nowiki>{{re|User}}</nowiki></code> | |||
{{re|User}} is how it is displayed. This will send a notification to the user through the notification system. | |||
You can also use <code><nowiki>{{u|User}}</nowiki></code> | |||
{{u|User}} is how this one looks, and can be used to mention someone's username without the @ symbol. | |||