Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-26304798-20160602150926/@comment-26304798-20160602175529

Saftzie wrote: Article comments are actually Thread: items. Unless Wikia's process for switching back to talk pages deletes the items and/or the Thread: namespace, the comments should still be there.

I suspect, however, that nothing is deleted. The comments probably become orphaned, meaning that they become "child" objects without a "parent." The "parent" is the article, which would still be there, but the parent-child relationship is severed.

For example, the article w:c:oddworld:Abe, the parent, has some comments, which are the children, the earliest of which is w:c:oddworld:Thread:5082. Thank you. Would the connection be restored if comments are turned back on at a later date? It seems that the talk pages for articles also exist if you use their URL, but they are not visible from the article itself.