User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-3388044-20111001062627/@comment-1333424-20111001175827

@Sovq I couldn't possibly call the article comments a good replacement for talk pages. From my experience article comments seem to serve as the place where new users and unregistered users comment on the article subject instead of the article itself. It would be quite impossible to actually *discuss* about how to improve it&mdash;sure, you can say "That section sucks" but if you have 10 editors discussing it you will very quickly find that talk pages are superior for this purpose. I'm not saying article comments are bad at all; they simply shouldn't replace talk pages. Same goes for the message wall. It's not really a bad thing if it is made optional. Some more social wikis might find it awesome and all, but I'm sure wikis that strive to be encyclopedias will prefer talk pages over message walls.