Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-26407541-20150710132516/@comment-1267828-20150710145932

Talk pages do make archiving far far easier than a message wall. With a message wall, you often have to scroll through pages upon pages of messages to find the specific one you're looking for, Even then, if you or an admin deletes the conversation, it can be difficult to get the history back.

However, Talk Pages, at least to me, are far messier. They often take quite a bit of effort to get cleaned up, and they never tell you who left you a message, just that one was left on your talk page and where. Lots of users fail to put headings on their messages, resulting in several topics blurring together, and not leaving a sig is a common issue, resulting in you having to check the history just to see who told you what was said.

Overall, I prefer the Message Walls.