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On StudyPlace, we are augmenting the function of the Talk pages in order to establish the ideal intellectual context of a topic as well as to help work out the process of collaboration on it. The tab for the Talk page is labeled "study" and contributors should set it up by inserting {{subst:study}} at the top and clicking "Save page." This will divide the Talk page into two parts — Study and Talk.
- In the Study part, you can note and outline key ideas, indicate important questions to be addressed, selectively marshal the available literature, and suggest experiential insights about what educates or miseducates with respect to the article. The Study section will create a current state-of-the-art, as well as a pertinent condition-of-life, which will together serve as intellectual and experiential context for the creative work on the article page, its peerhood, so to speak. Usually, the Study section will set out a fuller set of questions, ideas, and resources than the text of the actual article will do justice to in its current state. Thus, the Study section will indicate the standards that the editors of an article should seek to meet and the lower the gap between the ideal mastery indicated in the Study section and the evident grounding of the actual article, the more authority readers can accord to the article.
- In the Talk part, StudyPlace contributors discuss matters of coordination with others. Wikis like StudyPlace are not managed in a top-down, hierarchical manner. Often productive collaboration happens spontaneously; occasionally editors need to discuss ideas, work out disagreements or misunderstanding, or plan how to allocate effort. Use the Talk section for such purposes. There is a good explanation of conventions for doing so on Wikipedia.
