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All the pages within one space will have the same url prefix no matter if it is a child page or root page
yourspace:page1 will have url http://wikis.sun.com/display/yourspace/page1
if you have a second page that is a child (nested page) of the page1, let's call it page2, the url will look like this:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/yourspace/page2
Why is this so and why should you care about nesting the pages then? For a couple of reasons:
- the url is "flat", so then you can change the nesting without breaking urls
- breadcrumbs, children macro and other macros use the parent/child relationships and show the pages as a tree hierarchy, e.g.
- breadcrumb for yourspace:page1 will be Wikis Home > yourspace > page1
- breadcrumb for yourspace:page2 will be Wikis Homo > yourspace > page1 > page2
By doing this you can organize your content into trees that are very easy for users to navigate
- page level permissions (restrictions) apply to the page and all of its children, so if you set the permissions so that only sun employees can modify page1, the same rule will automatically apply to page2
- you can move a page and all of its children to a different space or under another page in the same space - this makes it super easy to reorganize even big spaces.
- in the future we hope that it will be possible to set a watch on a page and all of its children - there is a JIRA request for this functionality, at the moment a watch watches only the page that it was set on
There might be some other advantages that I missed 
More information about "page families" can be found here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139543
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