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An Option tab is a little tab-like bar at the top of every Bulbapedia page. You can’t miss them.  They’re colored green, and they are used to control the article in subject. There are six tabs – Article, Discussion, Edit this page (View Sources, if the page is protected), History, Move (This will disappear if the page is protected), and Watch. These six tabs are like the control panel of the article, where you can talk about, edit, and watch the article.

Also known as Talk pages, where users can ask questions, discuss issues, or chat for informational purposes about the article or the article subject. Anyone can edit a Talk page, by asking or answering a question. It is much like an article in itself, where you can edit a talk page just like a real article. You can create a new section by click the little “+” just of the right of “Edit this page”. Add a title and write in a question or comment. By editing an alright existing question, click the “Edit this page” and write in a response. Also add an indent (add a : colon character before your writing) every time you respond to an comment. It makes it easily to read and looks better. Sign your comment every time you write something by click the http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/w/skins/common/images/button_sig.png button to sign with your username and time.

As it says above in Editing a Page section, the Edit this page tab allows you to basically edit the page. It contains a large text box with the deconstructed article in it. The player may edit, expand and change the article. If the article says “View Source” instead of “Edit this page”, it means that the page is protected for an important reason, by an administrator and only an administrator alone can unprotect it.

A page history is a up-to-date list of all changes and edits that were made in the page in reverse-chronological order. It is a interesting and an important page that can help a user see what has been happening with the article in subject. It may look complex at first, but it will become simple to use and very helpful. Different edits are called versions. Some article may have many versions, while others may have only a few, for how many times it was edited. To see or compare a version, click the dot points to which version you what to see then click "Compare selected version",  then it will come up with the older version of the article and the differences from the other article you selected. To view a specific version, click a date. To compare an old version with the current version, click "cur", while to compare a version with its predecessor, click "last".

If you, or another any other user wants to move an article title to another for any appropriate reason, they can do so by opening the "move" page. It is much like renaming an article. There will be two text boxes for you to complete - the first is for you to write in the name you want the article to change, the second is for you to fill in a reason for why you changed it. If the article has a unsatisfactory reason, the article may be moved back into its original name. If the article is protected by an administrator, no one is able to move a page and the "move" tab will disappear.