Except in main
namespace
(
article namespace
), where the
subpage feature
has been disabled in the English Wikipedia,
subpages
are pages separated with a "/" (a
slash
) from their 'parent' page.
Making a new
[[link]]
that begins with a / (slash) is the common way to start a subpage. The page to which this link points is considered "subordinate" to its host page, and is titled and linked as
[[Parentpage/Subpage]]
. It is possible to create a subpage of a subpage (or a sub-subpage). At the top of each subpage or sub-subpage, you can find a
backlink
(a.k.a.
breadcrumb
) to the higher levels of the page.
- User subpages?making extra pages within your own user namespace, e.g.
[[User:Example/Draft of article]]
or
[[User:Example/About me]]
.
- WikiProject
subpages?for project-specific
templates
, discussion, or guidelines pages.
- Portal
subpages?for Portal-specific templates and content.
- Dividing up Wikipedia process pages (e.g.,
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
,
Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
, etc.) which would otherwise get too big to be easily used.
- Documentation subpages for templates
.
- Talk page archiving?both article Talk and User_talk pages are typically archived by moving discussion to numbered subpages. This allows the discussion to still be searchable, rather than requiring a hunt through the
page history
.
- Talk page adjuncts, such as an article's
/to do
list
or the
/Comments
pages used for
Good Article review
. A particularly long and complicated
{{
ArticleHistory
}}
may also be put on an
/ArticleHistory
transclude page.
- Temporary subpages in Talk namespace, usually formatted
[[Talk:Example Article/Temp]]
or
[[Talk:Example Article/Dumping ground]]
, for example the kind of "/Temp" pages that can be created from
Template:Copyvio
, which allow editors to begin creating an entirely new article from scratch while the copyright violation is being sorted.
Avoid additional incoming and outward links that would make it appear as if this "/Temp" page is part of the encyclopedia: that is, in the case the Copyvio template is used, only this template, applied in article namespace, can link to the "/Temp" article from article or "main" namespace. See
Disallowed uses
below for further recommendations on how to avoid creating the impression a "/Temp" page is an encyclopedia page. Other common variants are
[[Talk:Example Article/Draft]]
and
[[Talk:Example Article/Sandbox]]
. Such temp pages are also sometimes used for template and Wikipedia-namespace development.
- Writing a
content fork to avoid NPOV
.
- Writing drafts of major article revisions, e.g.,
[[Example Article/Temp]]
in the main namespace, as you can get there accidentally using
Special:Random
?write these in the talk namespace, e.g.
[[Talk:Example Article/Temp]]
. See
Wikipedia:Workpages
for detail. Also, avoid incoming and outward links regarding such "Talk:.../Temp" page that might create the impression this is an encyclopedia page before it is, e.g.:
- surround "category" links by "nowiki" tags, so that the temp page doesn't show up in a non-project category
as if
it were an article, example: <nowiki>[[Category:Incredibly smart people]]</nowiki>. The "nowiki" tags should be removed only when the "temp" content is moved to its place in article namespace. (This is an
outward link
example.) Another solution: put a colon before word "Category", for example, write [[:Category:Shamanism]] instead of [[Category:Shamanism]]. In this case,
it will be still linkable
, but it will not make the subpage appear on category pages.
- don't create navigational templates that make it appear as if this temp page is part of a series of encyclopedia articles, for example, don't do this: "... | [[John I of Doeland]] | [[Talk:John II of Doeland/Temp|John II of Doeland]] | [[John III of Doeland]] | ...". (this is an
incoming link
example).
- Draft pages mistakenly created in the main namespace should be moved as appropriate, or deleted if they are inactive and redundant to the main article.
- Using subpages for permanent content that is meant to be part of the encyclopedia.
- Pasting copies of copyrighted reliable sources to
"share" with other editors
.
Copyright violations
are not permitted on
any
page in Wikipedia.
In the left toolbar, under Toolbox, select Page Information and an information page is shown. In the first table, there is a link for Subpages of this page.
Or; to get a list of all subpages of a page, go to the
Special:Prefixindex
page and type the parent page name followed by a slash. For example, for all subpages of
User:Example
, type
User:Example/
in the input box and select Go:
You can also type
Special:Prefixindex/User:Example/
in the main search box to get the same result.
To add a
Subpages
link to the left toolbar, add this code to
Special:MyPage/common.js
and purge per the instructions at the top of the page:
mw
.
util
.
addPortletLink
(
'p-tb'
,
wgServer
+
wgArticlePath
.
replace
(
"$1"
,
"Special:PrefixIndex/"
+
wgPageName
+
"/"
),
'Subpages'
);
Some templates can also show subpages. For example,
{{
list subpages
|Subpages|Wikipedia}}
shows:
Pages with the prefix 'Subpages' in the 'Wikipedia' and 'Wikipedia talk' namespaces:
The MediaWiki software supports selectively allowing or disallowing the creation of subpages in various
namespaces
. In namespaces where subpages are supported, you can for instance create a subpage simply by linking to the name of the subpage, prefixed with a slash (e.g. [[/Archive]]).
For the English Wikipedia, the following namespaces do
not
have the subpage feature: main, File, MediaWiki, and Category. But their talk spaces and all other namespaces have the subpage feature.
The main (article) namespace
does not
have this feature turned on, as strictly hierarchical organisation of articles is discouraged, and other distinctions are better made by placing pages in other namespaces (e.g. discussions go in "Talk:", and templates in "Template:").
Slashes in article titles
[
??????
]
Some topics have a slash in the name, and should be named accordingly?
e.g.
GNU/Linux naming controversy
or
OS/2
. Care should be taken with the corresponding
talk pages
, though, as subpages
are
enabled in talk space?for example,
Talk:OS/2
is treated by the software as a subpage of
Talk:OS
.
Subpages were originally used on Wikipedia to differentiate between subjects to create topical hierarchies of articles, but this proved unworkable because articles tend to belong in more than one hierarchy. The present system of
disambiguation
was adopted instead, and the
Wikipedia:Do not use subpages
policy had to be rigorously enforced and retroactively applied. Since 2004, the
category system
has supported hierarchical organization while still allowing an article to belong to multiple categories.
Note that older discussions of subpages are generally concerned with articles named as subpages of other articles; this is no longer done.
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