Category talk:Contents

parent: Help:Contents

Wikipedia has detailed guidance on the use of talk pages. See wikipedia:Help:Talk pages to learn more.

Signing comments

The several tilde signs ("~) in a row have special meaning on all wiki pages, and are especially useful on Talk pages:

• 3 tildes ("~~~") is replaced with your user id and a link to your talk page (e.g. "RobLa (talk)")
• 4 tildes ("~~~~") to put both your user id, a link to your talk page, and the date and time in UTC (e.g. "RobLa (talk) 20:14, 25 October 2023 (UTC)")
• 5 tildes ("~~~~~") to put just the date and time in UTC (e.g. "20:14, 25 October 2023 (UTC)")

Please get into the habit of signing any comment you make on Talk pages with four tildes ("~~~~").

References

Anything that shows up wrapped with "<ref></ref>" will show up in one of the following sections:

• The "Footnotes" section at the bottom of the page (if someone was kind enough to add that)
• Wherever the <references/> tag is inserted on the page (if someone added that)
• Someplace random, probably at the bottom of the page.

User:RobLa would like to make it a convention that we all add a "Footnotes" section to the bottom of the page.

All of the talk pages

These can be found at "Talk:" namespace.

One can put a list of all of the pages in the Talk: namespace onto a wiki page by adding the following wikitext: {{Special:PrefixIndex/Talk:}}

Footnotes

Some talk pages should have a "Footnotes" section (e.g. like this page has a "#Footnotes" section), especially if any comments use the "<references/>" tag. The "Footnotes" section needs the <references/> tag in order to collect the references scattered throughout the comments.

Electowiki:Categories

This Category:Contents used to be a standalone page. But I moved it to Electowiki:Categories. I think it's better there, because page histories and talk pages get moved on renames. -- RobLa (talk) 01:12, 15 June 2020 (UTC)