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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.
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.
Unlike a deletion discussion, where people "vote" with terms like "keep," "delete," and a variety of other actions, talk page discussions are not as formal and can follow any number of structures. The examples below use terms like "include" and "remove" just to get the point across. But a real discussion may appear quite differently.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Template talk:Centralized discussion redirects to Wikipedia talk:Centralized discussion. You may create any page of the form Wikipedia talk:Centralized discussion/''Some topic'' if it does not appear that any particular existing talk page is the correct place for a policy-related discussion. Please note that there are a great many talk pages; a ...