User talk:Wamiq/Editnotice

Read this carefully to familiarise yourself with talk-page rules:

Sections
To discuss a new topic, start a new section by going to a new line and typing a title like this: == Heading ==, replacing "Heading" with a suitable title for the topic you wish to raise. Place new discussions at the bottom of the page. You can also use the tab labeled "new section", at the top of a talk page, which performs these steps automatically. This adds a new item number to the "Contents" box on the page you are editing.

To respond to a discussion already in progress, add your comment below the last entry in the discussion. If you want to respond to a specific comment, you can place your response directly below it. When doing this, keep in mind the advice given below about indentation.

Sign your contributions
You should sign and date your contributions on all talk pages. To do this easily, type four tildes (~) at the end of your comment, or just click the signature button on the row of buttons above the edit box. This will be automatically converted into a user signature and the date and time. (You can change the form of your signature using your user preferences.)

Indentation
Indentation is used to keep talk pages readable. Comments are indented to show whether they are replies to other comments, and if so, which ones.

Comments are indented using one or more initial colons. Each colon represents one level of indentation. You will see these colons in the wikitext when editing a talk page, but when viewing the page itself you will see the indents.

The first comment in a section will have no colons before it. When you reply to a statement, you should use one more colon than the number that appear in the statement you're replying to. For example, if you're replying to a statement that has 2 colons before it, your response should have 3 colons before it.

The following is an example of a talk page discussion using indentation. The text typed in the edit box is shown on the left, and the resulting display on the right.

If you wish to reply to a comment that has already been replied to, place your response below the last response, while still only adding one colon to the number of colons preceding the statement you're replying to. In this example, note that Jane, George and Jim are each responding to John's comment.

Note how equally-indented comments are displayed in one paragraph. Jane and George's replies are in the same paragraph. But a new paragraph is the normal style for when the speaker changes. So to produce the normal distinction between speakers (to avoid confusion) add a linebreak first as Jim has done.

The next example shows a more complex discussion. Even though Jane has responded to John first, and Elliot responded to Jane, we can still easily see that George's comment is meant to be in response to John's original question:

Note that if your comment consists of more than one paragraph, you must repeat the colons at the start of each paragraph. An alternative is to type the new paragraph tag    in the wikitext instead of starting a new line.

When a long discussion has many indents, the discussion may be awkward to read, particularly on smaller screens. Eventually, for everyone's convenience, a replying editor will "start over" by responding without any colons at all. The outdent template can be used for this purpose.

Assorted talk page boxes and graphics
Quotations

Sometimes it is necessary to display a sentence or paragraph from the article on the talk page so that other editors can easily understand what is being discussed.

An easy way to do this is to use the Quotation or Quote templates. Write   to produce

(Creates the above box.)

"quoted text"

- Who said it   (Indented with no box, make Source in italics.)

"quoted text"

- Source, page __ (Indented with no box.)

Boxes – general

Plain box (can also be used in article):

 Put material here.

Colored box (green – talk page only):  Put copied and pasted quoted text from article here.

Talk page graphics and icons

tick creates  ✅

done creates  ✅

yellow tick creates

creates  Partly done:

creates  Not done:

creates  Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed.

creates  Question:

creates

creates

creates   (Change the message as needed.)

fixed creates. (Add the period if you want it. It is not automatic.)

creates the information icon

creates the warning icon

Resolved creates the small boxed notice seen below on its own separate line:

cross creates

outdent or od creates a carry-over line to begin discussion at far left.