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{{{{SITENAME}}/Help}}
{{SiteName}} has several namespaces arranged in pairs: a primary namespace and its associated namespace for discussion, for example:
* the main namespace, which is unnamed, and its pair, '''Talk:'''
* '''User:''' and '''User talk:'''
* '''Project:''' and '''Project talk:'''

{{SITENAME}} content is divided into namespaces for several reasons, for example:
* One can define access restrictions on a namespace-by-namespace basis without the need for access control lists;
* One can easily restrict searches using the '''Search''' facility to any set of namespaces.

==Creating a new page in a specific namespace==
A page name can have any of the forms:
* NAMESPACE:FOLDER/TITLE
* NAMESPACE:TITLE
* FOLDER/TITLE
* TITLE

where:
* NAMESPACE is one of the predefined namespace names (such as Princeton)
* TITLE has no "/" characters in it 
* FOLDER may include "/" characters except in the Image namespace.

For further details about FOLDER and TITLE, see [[Help:Editing#Naming a New Page]].

To create a page in the main namespace, no namespace specification need be given. For example, to create a page named "Major Choices" one could just type "Major Choices" (without the quotation marks) in the ''search'' box and press the '''Go''' button. Similarly, to create a page named "Calendar" in the  "Major Choices" folder in the main namespace, one would use the string "Major Choices/Calendar".

To create a new page in a specific namespace other than the main one, the namespace must be given explicitly. For example:

{| class=wikitable
! With the ''search'' box !! wikitext
|-
| Princeton:My Page || <nowiki> [[Princeton:My Page]]</nowiki>
|-
|}

==Existing Namespaces==
To see a complete list of {{qed}} namespaces that can hold content, click on the '''Search''' button in the ''search'' box, leaving the text box empty. Or equivalently, click [[Special:Search|here]].

When deciding which namespace to use when adding content, please consult the following table. In this table
* "PU" signifies members of the Princeton University community including specially authorized [[Help:Guests|guests]].
* The default access restrictions are shown. 

Additional restrictions can be applied, for example on a folder-by-folder basis.
For further details about restricting access, see [[Help:Access Restrictions]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name !! Default read-access restrictions !! Default write-access restrictions ||class="unsortable"|Comment
|-
| (main) || public || PU ||
|-
| Category: || public || PU ||
|-
| Course: || PU || PU || Restrictions to members of course [mailto:qed@princeton.edu on request]
|-
| Image: || public || PU || Equivalent to Media:. See [[Help:Restricting Access to Uploaded Files]]
|-
| Princeton: || PU || PU || If additional read-restrictions are required, consider using the Project: namespace
|-
| Project: || PU || PU ||
|-
| Template: || public || PU ||
|-
| User: || public || PU ||
|}


=== Searches ===
If you wish to restrict searches to a specific set of namespaces, simply leave the ''search'' text box empty and press the '''Search''' button.

You can also control the default list of namespaces which are searched when you use the '''Search''' button by modifying your [[Special:Preferences#prefsection-8 | preferences]].

To search within a namespace by page title prefix, use the [[Special:Prefixindex|Advanced search]] form.

==Miscellaneous==
Some other important points about namespaces are:
* The number of namespaces can be increased.
* As a rule, except for anonymous users, read-access in a primary namespace implies both read and write privileges in the corresponding discussion namespace.

==See also==
* [[Help:Course]]
* [[Help:Folders]]
* [[Help:Images]]
* [[Help:Search]]
* [[{{SITENAME}}:Category-Based Access Restrictions]]
* [[{{SITENAME}}:Folder-Based Access Restrictions]]

==External link==
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace Help:Namespace]

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