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Help:Talk

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A talk page is a special AstrologyNotes page containing discussion about the contents of its associated "subject" page. To view the talk page of an article, click on the discussion link on the border of the screen. In the default AstrologyNotes presentation, the discussion link is found in a tab at the top of the page, next to edit this page link. When you are on the talk page, clicking on article link will take you back to the main article.

What is it used for?

NOTE: Use of the AstrologyNotes talk pages (the "discussion tab") is recommended as the first step in AstrologyNotes dispute resolution.

On AstrologyNotes, the purpose of a talk page is to help to improve the contents of the associated article page. Questions, challenges, excised text (due to confusion or bias, for example), arguments relevant to changing the text, and commentary on the main page are examples uses.

AstrologyNotes discourages the use of talk pages just for the purpose of talking about the subject. In other words, talk about the article, not about the subject. Please use the individual User talk pages to leave notes to other members, or the AstroNotes Forum. The AstroNotes forum is the appropriate place for all discussions other than those that directly relate to editing a specific article. There is a link to the AstroNotes forum on the navigation bar to the left. The forum is actually located outside of the AstroNotes interface, but there is a link back to AstroNotes from the forum.

The practice of "spamming" - posting similar messages to more than a few users' talk pages, often for the purpose of soliciting a certain action - is discouraged.

User talk pages

Your user page also has a talk page which has some special features. For one thing, there is a link to it in the header next to your name (if you use a "skin" other than the default it may be somewhere else). Also, if edits are made to it by others, the text You have new messages will appear at the top of the page. These pages can be used for occasional personal communication among users; but note that these pages are public. If you want to communicate privately, use e-mail.

To write in another user's talk page, click the Discuss this page link on your sidebar when you view the user page (which you can do by clicking on a user's nickname). On the list of recent changes and on your watchlist, you can directly access a user's talk page by following the (Talk) link behind the user's name / IP address.

"Post a comment" feature

For editing a talk page, one can optionally use the "Post a comment" feature, but only for a new thread and for a reply to be put at the bottom of the last thread.

For a new thread, fill in the "Subject/headline" box. Then the edit summary is automatically the same as the new section header.

For a reply to be put at the bottom of the last thread, do not fill in the "Subject/headline" box. In this case it is not possible to supply an edit summary. Instead, edit the previous thread.

When using "Post a comment", an edit conflict is impossible. However, in the case that you are not starting a new thread but replying to an existing one, your response may be appended to a newly created post that was added while you wrote yours. It is therefore generally recommended to use section editing to respond, and "Post a comment" to start new threads. If your comment is accidentally misplaced, just edit the page and move it.

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