Talk Pages

Given that this wiki was taking a toll on the forum because people wanted to discuss changes to certain pages, a talk namespace has been added to facilitate discussion of each of the pages in the wiki. This is intended to be used in a similar way to the Wikipedia talk feature, though it is nowhere near as sophistocated.

Pages in the talk namespace should be used for discussion that relates to regular pages. They don’t need to be created manually, you should be able to create or access the talk page for any page in the wiki by clicking the ‘talk’ button at the top of the page (there is obviously no talk button on talk pages). Each of the talk pages is just a regular wiki page and can be edited just like any other.

1. Sign your comments! That is as simple as putting your username after your comment, this will make discussion easier.
2. To bring up a new topic use a header (by clicking the H1 button in the edit panel). New topics should go at the top of the page.
3. To reply to an existing topic don’t add headers, just add text below the original and use common sense when formatting, and indent quotes where appropriate (see syntax)
4. Be nice and civil.
5. And last but far from least, follow this great set of guidelines.

From time to time, the talk pages will become very full and it will be appropriate to archive some of the discussion. Please use the following method to archive talk page content, but remember you should always leave current ongoing discussion in the talk page itself:

1. Click on edit this page for the talk page you wish to archive.
2. Highlight the section of the text you wish to archive and place the text on your computer’s clipboard by right-clicking (Windows) or option-clicking (Mac) and selecting cut.
3. While still in the edit window, create a link to the archive page you are about to create. e.g [[Archive 1|archive_1]]
4. Save the page. You should now have a mostly empty page with a red link for the archive page you are about to create. Follow the red link and choose to Create the page.
5. Paste the old discussion into the edit box by right-clicking (Windows) or option-clicking (Mac) and choosing Paste.
6. Before saving, be sure to add a notice to the top indicating that it is an archive page and that no edits should be made. A good way of adding a notice is to use the ^ character (shift-6) at each end of the line you want to be a notice.
7. You’ve archived a page, well done.