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Wikipedia has detailed guidance on the use of talk pages. See [[wikipedia:Help:Talk pages]] to learn more.
== Signing comments ==
The several tilde signs ("<code><nowiki>~</nowiki></code>) in a row have special meaning on all wiki pages, and are especially useful on Talk pages:
* 3 tildes ("<code><nowiki>~~~</nowiki></code>") is replaced with your user id and a link to your talk page (e.g. "[[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]])")
* 4 tildes ("<code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>") to put both your user id, a link to your talk page, and the date and time in UTC (e.g. "[[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 20:14, 25 October 2023 (UTC)")
* 5 tildes ("<code><nowiki>~~~~~</nowiki></code>") 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 ("<code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>").
== References ==
Anything that shows up wrapped with "<code><nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki></code>" 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 <code><nowiki><references/></nowiki></code> 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 [[Special:PrefixIndex/Talk:|"Talk:" namespace]].
One can put a list of all of the pages in the <code>Talk:</code> namespace onto a wiki page by adding the following wikitext: <code>
<nowiki>{{Special:PrefixIndex/Talk:}}</nowiki>
</code>
== Footnotes ==
Some talk pages should have a "Footnotes" section (e.g. like this page has a "[[#Footnotes]]" section), especially if any comments use the "<code><nowiki><references/></nowiki></code>" tag. The "Footnotes" section needs the <code><nowiki><references/></nowiki></code> tag in order to collect the references scattered throughout the comments.
<references/>
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