Talk pages
Starting a conversation
User talk pages
Messages for you
Layout
Making discussions easy to follow
Examples
More examples of layout
Drawing attention
Fetching others to help
Summary
Review what you've learned
Sometimes a question sits on a talk page and nobody answers, simply because the right people have not seen it. There are polite ways to draw attention to it.
Start where the topic belongs. Post on the talk page of the article itself first. Editors who watch that page will see the new section in their watchlist and may answer there.
Ping one editor. If a particular editor knows the topic, mention them in your comment. Linking their username, or using the {{Ping}} template, sends them a notification, as long as the comment is signed in the same edit. For example, writing {{Ping|Example}} at the start of a signed comment alerts that editor.
Leave a note on their talk page. A short message on the editor's own user talk page is a friendly direct request. Say which article and which discussion you would like them to look at.
Ask a wider audience. General questions can go to the Help desk or the Teahouse, and matters for the whole community go to the Village pump. If you need help with your own editing, put {{Help me}} on your own talk page and a helper will come to you.
Give people time to reply. One reminder is fine, but posting the same request in many places at once usually slows things down rather than speeding them up.