Forum:Keep or delete talk pages?

Just wondering whether I should keep talk pages from an article if I delete it? Also, should I put those pages in some sort of category aswell, so one can still find them? I'm not sure what a wiki should do here so help would be great.


 * Hi. It is up to you whether you want to keep the talk page or not. Although, talk pages usually have some relevance to the article so if the article is deleted, there is then no real use for the talk page. Articles will be kept in the deletion log when they're deleted so they're still accessible. --Spongebob456 (Talk) 19:48, November 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * My observation is that, on most wikis I've seen, talk pages are usually deleted when the corresponding article is deleted. For example, Wikipedia policy tends to do this, if you check wikipedia:Wikipedia:CSD and wikipedia:Special:Log/delete. As Spongebob said, an orphaned talk page is rather pointless if there's not going to be any active discussion (because there's no article to discuss), and so deleting it is considered part of the clean up process.


 * But you're free to do whatever you think is best. If you do decide to keep orphaned talk pages, I recommend adding a template or category to the ones you keep so that you can find them later.


 * Because talk page often contain deletion discussions about a page which is deleted, I usually leave them intact for reference. When merging two pages, I usually look at both talk pages and move the largest one to associated the merged page.  I don't use categories for deleted talk pages myself, but that's a good idea to keep things organised. -452  18:37, November 21, 2012 (UTC)