User blog comment:BertH/User rights updates for Forum and Message Wall/@comment-5645428-20150126034259

Since it was not mentioned, I assume article comments still remain out of bounds for moderators, weirdly being classified as subpages and therefore within the talk namespace. Article comments precede both the message wall and new forum features if I can recall right, so I guess it's understandable being configured that way, but now imposes limitations in today's context.

Article comments tend to be the most heavily used and lightly thought over section for unregistered editors to interact with, and is located all too conveniently. This makes it highly prone to spamming, but more annoyingly pointless comments, and because this should be expected, it makes sense there be an efficient management system. But there isn't.

Diverging slightly, the subpage system naturally makes management harder because comments have to be deleted as if they were complete articles, where it should be "click Delete > insert delete reason > delete confirm", straight from the comment. A Dev Wiki script already makes this possible from Wiki Activity, but should be Wikia standard on the comments themselves.

As was my obvious point from the start, moderators should be able to delete article comments. Short term, straight from the talk namespace but only such assigned as {article comments technical name}. Proper solution, overhaul the whole article comment system to more closely reflect the wall replies.