Forum:The Difference Between Article:Subpage and Article/Subpage?

I've been getting some work done for another Wiki lately and want to try foraying into more complex organization techniques with subpages. I've seen subpages around Wikis with the format Article:Subpage, but I've also seen what seem to be subpages written as Article/Subpage as well, which made me slightly confused.

My questions, as a whole, are the following: what are the biggest differences between the two formats used? What are the most common usage-scenarios for each one? Additionally, how do subpages even work as a whole?

Inlovewithabsol, VTOL VR Wiki Admin (talk) 05:07, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Using  is commonly used for some namespaces (User, File, Category, Blog, Project and others), while   causes the subpage to display a link back to the main page from which the subpage was created on the header. I hope that’ll help https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/upncbs-wiki/images/9/92/Paramount_Pictures.svg/revision/latest/scale-to-width/90  Paramount1106  ✉️Message Wall Guestbook📝 Activity⛰ 05:32, 21 April 2021 (UTC)


 * The two formats you mentioned are not two different ways to do the same thing and can actually be combined such as Help:Infoboxes/Tags. As Paramount1106 mentioned, the Page/Subpage could be an actual subpage where the two pages are related and, supposedly, Page exists as its own page with its own content. Notice how I used the term "could". Subpages are allowed in only certain namespaces (more on namespaces later). If you see a page name like this in a namespace that does not allow subpages, then it is a fake subpage. This means that the two pages aren't related as far as the software is concerned; it just so happens that one of them has / in its name.

In contrast, Namespace:Page is a page in a particular namespace (see Help:Namespace). There is no separate page Namespace with its own content. There are certain namespaces that come default with a wiki. Upon request, Fandom can enable additional namespaces but there must be a good reason for it. Namepsaces are registered with the wiki software and can be used for various tasks such as filtering search results or, as mentioned earlier, determining whether or not / in a page name is treated literally or indicates a subpage. Sometimes, a wiki will have fake namespaces. Page names are allowed to contain the : character. As such, you can create a page that looks like it has a custom namespace but actually doesn't.

Andrewds1021 (talk) 23:21, 14 May 2021 (UTC)