Wikipedia:User talk page

A talk page is a page where you send a message to a user. A user talk page is a kind of talk page that has the user's user name at the end of the "User talk:" part. For example, if your user name is "Blahblahblah", your user talk page is "User talk:Blahblahblah".


You will know you have new messages on your user talk page if you see a message box at the top of your computer screen that looks like this:

A person may put a message on your user talk page for one or more of the following reasons:

  1. A welcome (if you are a new user).
  2. You made some edits on a page as a test – someone will probably tell you that your test was successful, and that in future you should do tests in a sandbox. This is because you should not make nonsense changes to Wikipedia articles for a joke or just to see if it works.
  3. You have vandalized a page, or have done something else wrong.
  4. Your bot is out of control (this is only for people who run bots).
  5. You have been blocked from editing.
  6. A user needs to talk to you for some other reason.