Help:Talk pages
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[edit] About Talk Pages
Talk pages are for communicating with other people who contribute or are thinking of contributing to Fan History. Talk pages can be and should be used to discuss content on an article to help improve the content of the article or for the whole of Fan History Wiki. There is a talk page attached to every other page; just click the "discussion" or "talk page" link at the top or side of any page to find it.
[edit] Personal Talk Pages
Logged-in contributors have a personal talk page where other users can leave messages. This is found in the same way, by clicking the "discussion" or "talk page" link at the top of a user page. If you have a new message on your talk page, you will see a bright banner across the top of any Fan History pages you visit. Click the link in the message (or the userbar link "My talk") to go to your talk page.
There are talk pages for non-logged-in contributors too, but these may not always be useful. Because they are linked to IPs, and IPs can change between visits, the messages may not get to the right person. They are used to explain blocks of IPs and may identify where a user is, but may not be very useful for real communication. This is another good reason to create an account.
[edit] Discussion formats
On talk pages, there are generally two types of discussion formats: Turned Based and Interrupted Thread Mode. [1] Turned based is like traditional message boards and message board posts, where the poster comments below in response to the full message. In interrupted thread mode, a poster will interrupt a thread, commenting in the middle of some one else's text.
On Fan History, both formats are used. It comes down to individual preferences. If you are using Interrupted Thread Mode, it is generally advised that you copy the signature of the person to tail at the end of every comment you are interrupting so that authorship is not lost or confused.
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