User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-3388044-20110926194900

Solutions Already in Place
MediaWiki’s default Talkpage namespaces are already capable of solving all three of these issues:  Aside :  The opposite of less-experieced is  more -experienced, not more “passionate”. So, please do not condescendingly label as passionate those of us who oppose this implementation, finding it misguided, and thereby dismissing all of our concerns with a few strokes of the keyboard.
 * 1) Lack of Notifications
 * 2) * Go to Special:Preferences
 * 3) * Select the User profile tab
 * 4) * Scroll down to the Email options section
 * 5) * Tick the appropriate boxes dedicated to notification
 * 6) * This can be further supplemented by use of a talkback template.
 * 7) ** See Template:Talkback for an example
 * 8) Clarity of where to respond
 * 9) * Solved by use of a reply policy template at the top of your talkpage
 * 10) ** See Template:Usertalkback for an example
 * 11) Lack of automatic signatures
 * 12) * Solved by running an automatic signature bot
 * 13) ** See SineBot for an example
 * 14) *** Wildly successful. Operating for over four years, has signed well over a million signatures
 * 15) Lack of knowledge among younger and/or less-experienced Wikians on how to perform the above
 * 16) * Solved by using Wikia’s new-fangled Webinars to take Wikians step-by-step through the process

Issues

 * Disorganized. Without tables of contents, there will end up being multiple threads on a talkpage dealing with the same issue, as happens here in these Staff blogs all the time
 * All the custom signatures, of which many Wikians are proud, will be rendered useless, especially when the new message wall is completely rolled out and replaces each and every talkpage namespace at Wikia
 * No archiving as we are currently able to do, and what archiving there will be will be utterly chaotic
 * Specialized systems on wikis that rely on talkpage namespaces (such as our own wiki’s edit protected system for editing pages that are protected above one’s user rights) will cease to work
 * A whole plethora of talkpage templates that we rely on will have been neutralized by this implementation
 * It will be virtually impossible to collegially and collectively work through drafts of policy, etc., as we do now
 * It will be virtually impossible to collegially and collectively work through coding proposals/changes as we do now

Compromise Solution
There is a compromise solution, if Wikia will entertain it. Instead of irreversibly converting all the talk namespaces to message walls, create new namespaces. It would be wonderful if,  in addition  to the talk namespaces, we could each have, in our userspace, our very own Message Wall.

Thus, there would be a new, third namespace in userspace resulting in each of us having: Instead of taking a shotgun approach and trying to have the talk namespaces be all things to all people, why not take a silver bullet approach and let the namespaces retain their specialized functions?
 * A User profile page →  
 * A User talkpage for wiki business →  
 * A Personal Message Wall ( )
 *  Purpose : Socializing and networking to our heart’s content. A message wall where each user can express his/her creativity as well as a place for others to come by and share and collaborate with one another and be as off-topic as they want

Create an entirely new namespace for the User Message Wall and leave all talk namespaces as they are.

Thank you. — Spike Toronto  19:50, September 26, 2011 (UTC)

†  aka, The Death of the Talkpage.