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Subpages are pages separated with a "/" (aslash) from their 'parent' page. Thesubpage feature has been disabled in the English Wikipedia's mainnamespace (article namespace).
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 abacklink (a.k.a.breadcrumb) to the higher levels of the page.
[[User:Example/Draft of article]] or[[User:Example/About me]].[[Talk:Example Article/Temp]] or[[Talk:Example Article/Dumping ground]], for example the kind of "/Temp" pages that can be created fromTemplate:Copyvio, which allow editors to begin creating an entirely new article from scratch while the copyright violation is being resolved.[[Talk:Example Article/Draft]] and[[Talk:Example Article/Sandbox]]. Such temp pages are also sometimes used for template and Wikipedia-namespace development.[[Example Article/Temp]] in the main namespace, as you can get there accidentally usingSpecial:Random—write these inyour sandbox or in thedraft namespace. SeeWikipedia:Workpages for detail. Also, avoid incoming and outward links regarding such "Draft:Example Article" page that might create the impression this is an encyclopedia page before it is, e.g.:<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 anoutward 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 prevent the draft from appearing on category pages."... |[[John I of Doeland]] |[[Draft:John II of Doeland|John II of Doeland]] |[[John III of Doeland]] | ...". (this is anincoming link example).The "All pages with prefix" report fromSpecial:PrefixIndex shows subpages.
Subpages link to your version of Tools.[1]The "Search" report fromSpecial:Search similarly uses aprefix search parameter to show subpages.For example: prefix:wp: manual of style.
Comparing the two:
To keep anactive display of subpages, see{{list subpages}}.To keep alink to an "All pages..." report, use{{subpages}} or [[Special:PrefixIndex]].To keep a link to a "Search" report, use a{{search link}}.
Outside of a single page name, there is no direct method for finding subpages.Standard subpagenames are searchable using theintitle parameter.
There area few categories that track some types of subpages.
The MediaWiki software (which runs Wikipedia) supports selectively allowing or disallowing the creation of subpages in variousnamespaces.
The following namespaces in English Wikipedia donot have the subpage feature:
However, the corresponding talk namespaces for the above spaces do allow subpages.
All other namespaces allow subpages. You can create a subpage simply by linking to the name of the subpage, prefixed with a slash (e.g.[[/Archive]]).
Some topics have a slash in the name, and should be named accordingly—e.g.OS/2 orProvidence/Stoughton Line. Care should be taken with the correspondingtalk pages, though, as subpagesare enabled in talk space—for example,Talk:OS/2 is treated by the software as a subpage ofTalk: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 ofdisambiguation was adopted instead, and theWikipedia:Do not use subpages policy had to be rigorously enforced and retroactively applied. Since 2004, thecategory system has supported hierarchical organization while still allowing an article to belong to multiple categories.
The subpage titles that became redirects when mainspace subpages were moved, are to be left alone (WP:RFD § K4), in case there are any existing links on external pages pointing to them.
mw.util.addPortletLink('p-tb',mw.config.get('wgServer')+mw.config.get('wgArticlePath').replace("$1","Special:PrefixIndex/"+mw.config.get('wgPageName')+"/"),'Subpages');
toyour Common.js page and purge per the instructions at the top of the page.
Note that older discussions of subpages are generally concerned with articles named as subpages of other articles; this is no longer done.