Help:Communication
Here's how to effectively communicate with other users:
How?
To communicate all you have to do is click the edit tab located at the top of a talk page. To get to a talk page from an article, template, or other "main" page, click the "discussion" tab, 2nd from the left. Add your comment under the section you want to comment on, and save your changes. Of course, you will need to sign your comments to effectively distinguish yourself from other users. You can do this by adding ~~~~ at the end of your comment. If you did this correctly, the ~~~~ would change into -- [[User:Username|User]]. You can also sign comments with your own custom signature. For more information about signatures, visit Help:Signature.
Why?
Because communication is an essential part of this wiki and you won't get anywhere without it. Communication is used to clear up unanswered questions, help others out, or just to be social.
Where?
You can communicate pretty much on any type of talk page, including User talk, Image talk, MarioWiki talk, MediaWiki talk, or even Help talk. You can also comment in an edit summary, which is located above the save button. There is also a forum, in which anything but vulgar language or inappropriate images are welcome. Look at this more specific list to see what each talk page is for and what you should use it for.
- Talk – used to debate or ask questions about the article that corresponds to it. This is not the right place to discuss which character is better or which species is the strongest.
- User talk – used to communicate specifically to a user about something wiki related or random nonsense. This kind of page can used to comment on almost everything. There are also {{Usermessages}}, which can be used to communicate with multiple users at one time. If you are given a reminder/warning, you may not remove it. These are supposed to be kept so administrators can keep track of offenses without having to dig through the page history.
- Image talk – used to comment about an image's validity. While it is okay to leave comments like "This picture is cool", please keep it to a limit.
- MarioWiki talk – used to ask a question about a policy or a suggestion.
- Template talk – used to ask a question about what a template includes, its style, etc.
- Category talk – used to ask if the category is broad enough, or too narrow, or what it should be sub-categorized as.
- MediaWiki talk – used to ask a question about the function of a MediaWiki page or suggestions on how to improve it. This is the rarest namespace, meaning you most likely won't need to comment on MediaWiki talk pages.
- Help talk – used to ask more specific questions about a help page or suggest something to add to it. You can use this page's talk page to ask something about it or leave a suggestion.
- PipeProject talk – used to discuss about a PipeProject, or state questions about the function of it.
On all of these pages, three rules apply. You cannot leave vulgar, spammish, or inappropriate content in your comments, and as mentioned in image talk, off-topic comments should be rarities. In addition, you may not edit others' comments, not even for grammar. Editing your own posts is fine, but editing others' is considered rude and inappropriate.
