What the heck is a Talk page?
Every page on the site has a Talk (or Discussion) page attached to it. The Talk page attached to your User page is where other users leave messages for you. After they have left you a message, the next time you login you will see a yellow banner announcing that you have messages. (You can tell if you are on a Talk page when the title begins “Name talk:”.) There are Discussion pages for each article page, too. These pages are used to discuss the article — questions about the page, compliments about the page, and so forth.
