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 :Not quite.  If you want to put something on your own page to tell someone that you're talking about them, you can use , like this:   The  or ""tb"" template is put on the other person's talk page directly  it's from before the notification/ping system was implemented, and it's basically a quick way to leave the other person a message saying ""hey this conversation you were part of → over here → has been updated"". —  "