Peacebuilding:Using talk pages

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Every article on this site has an associated talk page for discussing that article. Talk pages exist to allow community members to share their thoughts and experiences so that others can benefit.

Talk page formatting

You can get to the talk page for an article by clicking on the discussion tab when reading an article.

You edit talk pages just like editing any other page in this site; see how to edit a page for instructions. When using talk pages, add new paragraphs at the bottom of the page.

If there are already conversations going on on that page, it can help to add a new heading, like this:

==This is the format for a heading, with two 'equal signs' on either side==

...so that there's a visual distinction between topics of discussion.

You should sign your posts on talk pages, so people know who they're talking to. You can use three tildes ("~~~") for just your user name, or four tildes ("~~~~") for your user name and the time and date. Unless there's a good reason, use the four-tilde signature.

Responses to other people's talk should be indented. You can use a colon (":") at the beginning of a paragraph to indent that paragraph. Responses to responses should be indented twice (two colons); responses to responses to responses get indented three times. Hopefully we don't get that much farther in a discussion, but if so, well, continue in that pattern.

User talk pages

The discussion page for a user is special; it's called a user talk page. You can use user talk pages to leave someone in particular a personal message. Don't forget that they're publicly accessible, and anyone can read them. Try to keep discussions about a particular article on that article's talk page, too.

Peacebuilders' discussion area

If you have something to discuss about Peacebuilding as a whole, the Discussion area is a good place to put your comments.