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The talk page associated with a page in another namespace is named by adding "talk" after the namespace label; for example, the talk page for Wikipedia:About is called Wikipedia talk:About. When viewing an article (or any other non-talk page) on the Wikipedia, a link to the corresponding talk page appears on the "Talk" tab at the top of the page.
Most pages on Wikipedia have a Talk page behind it: articles, user pages, even sandbox pages. Click on the "Talk" or "Discussion" tab in the upper left corner of any page to access its talk page. Wikipedians assume you'll be reading messages left in user and article Talk pages, and you can use them to leave messages for others.
If you have a question, concern, or comment related to improving a Wikipedia article, you can put a note on that article's talk page. You get to the talk page by clicking the "Talk" tab at the top of the article. If the tab shows up in red, it just means no one has commented yet; feel free to start a discussion. When you start a new discussion ...
Leave a message on the talk page for this Introduction by clicking the Talk tab above. You might want to try responding to someone else's comment too." However, the talk page template itself (above) says: "This talk page is for comments or discussion on how to improve the Help:Introduction to talk pages/1 page."
When talk pages in other namespaces (including userspace) are used for discussion and communication between users, discussion should be directed solely toward the improvement of the encyclopedia. The names of talk pages associated with articles begin with Talk:. For example, the talk page for the article Australia is named Talk:Australia.
This Wikipedia guide to talk page layout is an annotated, working guide to the basics of laying out a talk page. Complicated talk pages may be best modeled on the ...
BTW, if you're particularly interested in this subject, you might be interested in the discussions at Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines/Archive 2#Flat versus threaded, [mis]use of indents (two boxed examples, and editors struggled a bit to decide which one was the True™ version of threading) and Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines/Archive 8 ...
A list of such templates can be found at Wikipedia:Template messages/Talk namespace and Category:Talk header templates. Talk page templates contain information intended for editors, not readers. Which templates on Wikipedia are actually Talk page templates is a matter for some debate. For example, the cleanup template was originally created to ...