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I know you were having trouble creating subpages in their proper location. Here's a quick primer.

There are three ways of creating a subpage. Let's say you want to create a subpage to Star Wars/Characters for an obscure fellow by the name of Freddi the Jedi. Here's how you could go about it.

Number one:

The simplest is to go to Star Wars/Characters and then add a slash and the name of the new page to the URL in your browser's address bar:

You don't need to do anything fancy like add underlines in place of spaces or turn extended characters into special codes -- just type a slash and the name, then hit enter.

Number two:

Every work page has a line of buttons across the top, and one of them is "Create New". Click that button, then go to the very bottom of the menu that opens, where there is a prompt for you to type in a custom page name. That prompt holds just the work page's name, so to create your subpage for Star Wars/Characters you'll have to type in "/Characters/Freddy the Jedi" as has been done in the picture to the right, and click the "Go" button.

Number three:

The third way to create a subpage is to go to the Page Creator (which can be found in the menu along the left edge of the page under "Troping Utilities", or you can click the link I just embedded here). On that page are four text boxes with buttons next to them. Go the first one (the one with the button reading "Create new page"), and enter the full name of the page name you want to create there:

Then click the button.

In all three cases this will open the page editor with the boilerplate dropdown. You probably know this part already, since you've been creating pages, but here you pick the page type from that dropdown -- in this case, it would be a Characters page, the boilerplate for which is about three-quarters of the way down the list.

I hope that helps. I'm still not sure what you meant by "link bars" which caused you problems, but it really isn't very hard to put a subpage in the proper place.

If you have any questions, either answer here or drop a note on my talk page.

-- Looney Toons