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Talk pages
Starting a conversation

User talk pages
Messages for you

Drawing attention
Fetching others to help

Summary
Review what you've learned



Indenting can help improve the readability of a discussion, making it much easier to understand where one editor's comments end and another's begin. Always indent your reply one level deeper than the person you are replying to. The best way to indent is to place a colon (:) at the beginning of a line. The more colons you use, the more indented the text will be.

Help:Introduction to talk pages/3/table 1

To create a list, add an asterisk (*) at the start of each point. This goes after any markup (:, *, or #) that was used in the preceding line. It will add a bullet point (•) to each line, like this:

Help:Introduction to talk pages/3/table 2