Wikipedia:Guide to good indentation

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Good Indentation makes prolonged discussions easier to read and understand. It might be helpful to think of discussions as reports with numbered/bulleted sections and subsections where material is not necessarily written in chronological order. Remember to also follow the Talk page guidelines. In these examples the bolded line is the most recently added comment. Long discussions should be split up by level two headings to provide [edit] section links and reduce edit conflicts.

Indentation guidelines

1. Comments appear beneath the comment they are a reply to:

2. If two comments exist in reply to one specific comment, they should be at the same level of indentation with the oldest comment at the top:

3. Any reply to a comment should be placed below that comment at the bottom of the list of that comment's replies. If the comment you are replying to has already been commented on, your reply should appear before the next comment in that list:

4. A comment that is being added to a list of replies should go at the bottom. This includes any sub-threads which follow the last item in that list; do not separate a comment from its replies:

See also

• Wikipedia:Talk page
• Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines
  • Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines/Archive 3#On indentation styles and HTML generation. for details on the effect of various wikicode indentation styles on the HTML output.
• Wikipedia:Etiquette