User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-44055963-20191016152039/@comment-3452092-20191016160541

Although I have talk pages on most of my wikis, it's mostly because they are a separate thing and not front and center. I had someone going around my wikis bad mouthing their former employer, something that was relevant, but not needed, so I got rid of the article comments on those wikis. However, the talk pages are horrible and I actually hate that anyone can edit them, because that means we have to deal with the potential of vandals editing people's comments to say things they absolutely didn't say and this is a real problem on the most active wiki I'm on. When one of our vandals strikes again and this is not an if, it will happen unfortunately, I don't want to have to wade through all of the talk pages to see which ones have been vandalized and which ones legitimately are a bad comment we missed previously. Not to mention it was so easy to miss people's comments on your page when we had talk pages for users rather than message walls. Both of those things are so important to wikis I'm on. And of course profiles are needed for various reasons. I'm less concerned about those since it's one per person. . . or twenty. . . I'm on a lot of wikis and I definitely do not want them to have the same profiles since I want the info that is relevant to that wiki to be there not just general knowledge that is not specific to anything.