Talk:Talk pages project/Replying

Issues

I don't know if it's better to report this directly only on phabricator or here or whether this is already tracked (if so this could be archived):

• When somebody screwed up intendation, ie with the source editor added a reply without intendation (same layer as original post), then it puts the reply above that comment that misses intendation when using the Reply tool instead of putting it at the bottom. I hope it's clear what I mean. It should put the reply in the correct layer at the bottom and maybe it could even fix the intendation of other comments.
• The reply button is missing in empty sections. I'm not entirely sure what I meant with that or which problem I had where the button was missing but I think e.g. here there should also be a reply button in those sections that only have a header so one can use the Reply tool for replying instead of the source editor.
• It would probably be great if you could add a button to mark a section as solved to the options (see c:Template:Section resolved).
• People often if not usually use a bullet point in deletion discussions. With the reply tool it moves the signature to a new line. Please enable that the signature can also be put into the same line somehow. Example solution: if a comment only has one bullet point but not multiple it should not add a newline at the end.

Prototyperspective (talk) 22:23, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Also included the request for a mark as solved button in meta:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Do not fully archive unsolved issues on Talk pages. There's further issues (I'll add some below). If there's no phab issues for these I intend to submit code issues there later since I hope this could be moved from beta to become the default way people reply on talk pages with few exceptions.

• When using <gallery> it shows correctly in the preview but screws it up when publishing due to the intendation. See e.g. c:Special:Diff/949550947.

Prototyperspective (talk) 17:32, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

• When using templates it can add double dots : example (here is the change to how the reply should have looked like).

Prototyperspective (talk) 01:53, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Community Wishlist request with more: Wish:Fix the issues breaking the Reply tool. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:05, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

FYI, the wish is now open for voting. I hope these and the additional issues on that page get fixed so that more people can use the Reply tool more often. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:44, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Newcomer to Wikipedia discussions

I've recently been invited to join in Wikipedia discussions but I really don't know anything about the process. How can I learn how to join in and share the information I've learned? Topdogrex (talk) 01:17, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

What exactly have you been invited to discuss? Michael21107 (talk) 11:07, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Templates / quotation formatting

Considering how common and useful quotation formatting (like this) is, and since currently a template is necessary for that, it seems absurd to me that neither you can use templates in the visual reply editor, nor they are autocompleted in the source one. In source editor, a simple template like the quotation formatting even prohibits going back to the visual one. Michael21107 (talk) 11:02, 1 March 2026 (UTC)