User talk:Jimbauman

Hi, Jim. Here is some useful information that was posted on my Talk page by a user named Lukobe when I was getting started.

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Some stuff about talk pages came at a later time. It can get difficult keeping long threads straight. Here's some information about structure of talk pages. As a general rule:

first comment
 * Use colons to indent responses (one colon equals a short tab in wikitext). e.g.
 * second comment
 * third comment
 * fourth comment

looks like:

first comment
 * second comment
 * third comment
 * fourth comment

Bn (talk) 02:11, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * outdent (make text flush left) when you are starting a new thought (loosely put). you can also outdent when things get too cramped on the right, but then use the od template to show that you've done that.
 * make sure that quotes are highlighted effectively, so that people can easily distinguish between what you're saying and what you're pointing to. use italics or "..." blocks to do this.  there are also some more high-toned quotation box templates if you need them.
 * try to keep talk as linear as possible - the more you intersperse comments, the less sense it will make to later readers.