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:::::There's a quick-and-easy trick to doing it, that I guess I ought to explain, though you might already know it.  To create a new page subordinate to your user page, talk page, whatever, edit the user/talk page, and insert something like
 
:::::There's a quick-and-easy trick to doing it, that I guess I ought to explain, though you might already know it.  To create a new page subordinate to your user page, talk page, whatever, edit the user/talk page, and insert something like
 
:::::<nowiki>[[User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt/sandbox99|My spiffy subpage]]</nowiki>, and save it.  When you look at it, it will be a redlink.  Click on it, and you will get something like "this page doesn't exist.  If you want to create it, enter the text below."  Or something like that.  Then paste in you new stuff.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 20:25, 14 December 2014 (EST)
 
:::::<nowiki>[[User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt/sandbox99|My spiffy subpage]]</nowiki>, and save it.  When you look at it, it will be a redlink.  Click on it, and you will get something like "this page doesn't exist.  If you want to create it, enter the text below."  Or something like that.  Then paste in you new stuff.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 20:25, 14 December 2014 (EST)
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== Deleting material from talk pages, or, even worse, deleting the page outright ==
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Talk page material should not be deleted unless it is truly libelous or detrimental.  Talk pages should be an ongoing journal of discussion of the corresponding project page.  There is nothing wrong with a talk page being very short, and it is perfectly acceptable, albeit unusual, for an article page's author to say something on the talk page.
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I recently had to re-create [[Talk:IP_camera]] to make a comment on the article.
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[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 17:05, 15 December 2014 (EST)
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