Warhammer 40K Homebrew Wiki:How to Use a Talk Page

A talk page is one of several placed where you can speak freely with our fellow contributors. They are an older, purely wikitext-based form of Comments, seen on articles, and Message Walls, which are used on user pages. They are primarily used to hash out improvements to a single page or to the community as a whole.

Article Talk Page
To get to an article talk page from the article, click the "Edit" button, then find the "Talk" option—usually at the very bottom of the drop-down. Click on it, and you'll be taken to the talk page.

To leave an article talk page message, follow these steps:

Enter the title of your message in the "Subject/headline" text field near the Publish button. *It is optional to add it in that field, and it can instead be added by adding text between pairs of equal signs (== ==). It is however recommended to be added as the first line in the message.
 * Click "Add Topic" (AddTopicButton.png) to create a new discussion area.
 * Enter your message in the editor window. At the end of your message, type four tildes ( ~ ). This will generate a signature with your name when you hit Publish.
 * If needed, it can be helpful to click the Preview button to check your work.
 * Click Publish.
 * To respond to a talk page message, simply edit that section of the talk page, and indent your reply. You can indent by putting a colon (":") at the front of each line. Be sure to sign your response with ~.
 * Article talk pages are often a place to resolve disagreements about an article, so remember to be friendly and civil in all of your interactions there.

Using a Unique Signature
If you do not want to use the signature option by using the tild keys, you can create your very own unique signature. (See example here: Template:Algrimsig).

To utilise this unique signature you would simply type the following source code:

It will then appear like this:

User Talk Page
To get to a user talk page from a user profile, click the "Talk page" tab. To leave a message on the talk page, follow these steps:


 * Click the "Leave Message" (Leave_message.png) button at the top of the Talk Page.
 * Enter your message in the editor window. At the end of your message, type four tildes ( ~ ). This will generate a signature with your name when you hit Publish.
 * Enter the title of your message in the "Subject/headline" text field near the Publish button.
 * If needed, it can be helpful to click the Preview button to check your work.
 * Click Publish.
 * To respond to a talk page message, simply edit that section of the talk page, and indent your reply. You can indent by putting a colon (":") at the front of each line. Be sure to sign your response with ~.

How to Archive Messages
If you no longer want to see dozens upon dozens of messages on your Talk Page (especially long time users who've gathered hundreds of messages on their talk page over several years) you may then have the content archived. This is easily accomplished by creating a new talk page with an appropriate archived directory. The link(s) to the archived page(s) should be clearly visible at the top of your original talk page.

To archive content on your Talk Page simply input the following source code:

Archive 1

When you do so, it will appear thusly:

Archive 1

The wiki will automatically create a link back to your original Talk Page, which appears underneath the article title. Please note, when creating an archived link, that the naming is case-sensitive.