User talk:Craig Weiler

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You do not need to be an educator to edit. You only need to be bold to contribute and to experiment with the sandbox or your userpage. See you around Wikiversity! --Abd (discuss • contribs) 01:28, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Subpages
I saw you experimenting a bit in the Sandbox with headings and subpage links.

Wikipedia does not allow subpages in mainspace, but does allow it on Talk pages, User space, Wikipedia space. Wikiversity allows it in mainspace, and it is extremely useful. The practice came from Wikibooks, where subpages are used for Book chapters. So the top level page becomes a table of contents.

To create a subpage, explicitly, use the base page name, followed by a slash, and the subpage name. So we are working on Parapsychology. Pages that we want to create as a part of that resource are naturally placed as subpages. Keep names simply and short. Generally, avoid strewing page names out in mainspace, it makes resource maintenance easy. For example, with one view, I can see all the Parapsychology subpages:. The entire structure could be moved with a single command.

There is, then, a shortcut. If a link on a page is preceded by a slash, the link is read as a link to a subpage. So /Sandbox will point to a User talk sandbox in your user space, User talk:Craig Weiler/Sandbox. If a slash is put *after* the pagename, that suppresses the display of the slash, like this /Sandbox/.

You can also refer to a parallel subpage, ".." refers to the page above in a structure. So from Parapsychology/Sources one could refer to Parapsychology/FAQ with ../FAQ. But that doesn't work here, of course. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 17:48, 25 May 2014 (UTC)