Please read through the policy below to familiarize yourself with our common practices and rules.
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Subpages are a way to arrange content in a tree-like structure. If a wikilink to a page contains a forward slash character ("/") in the article title, the preceding part is considered the parent page title, while the part following the forward slash is considered the subpage title.
For example, the link [[Parent/Sub]] would link to a subpage "Sub" of the parent page "Parent".
A link starting with a forward slash (for example [[/Sub]] will link to a subpage of the page the link is located on.
Using subpages
The subpage feature is useful in several cases, including:
- User pages
- Since users only have a single page allotted to them, subpages may help them organize their content better.
- Talk pages
- On talk pages, subpages may be used to archive old discussions for future reference.
- Maintenance functions
- For example, all deletion discussions are located on subpages of Memory Alpha: Pages for deletion.
However, subpages are not to be used when naming articles in main namespace, to organize articles in some tree structure. An example of this would be an article title like [[Federation/Starship/USS Enterprise]].
This method of naming pages would be extremely cumbersome, and therefore the accepted standard is to give the article a title that may be used as if in normal conversation – for example, USS Enterprise.