Help:Talk pages

Frequently asked questions

Every page in WeRelate has an associated talk page on which you can add comments about the page
Talk pages are especially useful when you want to comment on another user's profile or user page, as you cannot edit those pages directly
To read or edit a talk page, click on the Talk link at the top of any page

First, find the user's profile
You can click on their name to see their profile if:
- they have signed their name (see below) to a page
- you see their name in a page's history (click on the History link at the top of a page to see a page's history),
Otherwise, if you know the person's user name you can click the My Relate link in the blue bar at the top of the page and select Browse Pages
- Select "User Talk" as the namespace
- Enter the Username in the "Title" field and click "Go"
Once you are looking at the user's talk page, You can add a comment to the page as described below

It's helpful for others if you sign and date your comments. You can do this by typing: --~~~~ at the end of your comment
Alternatively, press the button on the editing panel, which inserts: --~~~~ for you
If you really want your name without a date, just type: ~~~
Examples:
- You type: --~~~~ and the result is: --Walt 17:59, 16 February 2008 (EST)
- You type: ~~~ and the result is: Walt

Edit the page and add your comment on a new line underneath the previous comment
- Indent your response by starting each paragraph of your comment with a colon (:)
For example, on this page (and any other help page), the answers to all of the "frequently asked questions" are indented, by beginning the first line of each paragraph of the answer with a colon
- If you are responding to an already-indented response on a talk page, add a colon for each additional, necessary indentation
See Indenting Help for more information

Whenever you log on to WeRelate, make a habit of clicking on the My Relate tab in the blue bar at the top of the screen and select "Talk Page"
If someone has left a message for you on the talk page associated with your profile, you will see it listed at the bottom of the page
You will also be notified by email whenever someone leaves a message for you
You can change your email address in your preferences

When editing the talk page to leave your comment, make sure that the Watch this page checkbox near the bottom of the screen is checked before saving the page
- If you forgot to do this, or if you want to be notified of changes to any page, even when you haven't edited it, you can add the page to your watchlist by clicking on the Watch link at the top of the screen when looking at the page
  - You will be notified whenever the page or its associated talk page changes
  - An email will be sent to you whenever any page in your watchlist (or its talk page) changes.
Alternatively, you can see which pages in your watchlist have changed since you last visited them by clicking on the My Relate link in the blue bar at the top of the page and selecting "Watchlist"

Your changes take effect Immediately
Your changes or additions will show up in Searches the following day
- Pages are indexed every night, so if you created a new talk page, made changes to an existing talk page, or added new words on the existing page, they will start showing up in searches the following day

Click on the History link near the top of the screen
- This displays a list of all changes made to the page
- For each change, you can see how the page appeared after it was edited, when it was edited, and by whom
- To see exactly what was changed, click on the two versions of the page you want to compare, followed by Compare selected versions

User talk:Dallan is an example of a talk page for a profile
Place Talk:Scotland is an example of a talk page for a place page
To see the text used to create either of these pages, click on the Edit link near the top of the screen on those pages