Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37839302-20200204042004/@comment-9605025-20200204051006

As far as I am aware, once comments are enabled, yes; adding "Talk:" in front of the pagename in the URL is the only way to access the talk page.

As for this whole thing with Special:WikiActivity, that is a result of how the comments are stored. The comments features stores each comment as a subpage of the talk page. However, the talk page itself may or may not exist. The talk page will exist if a user created it. If not, then the talk page will not exist even if the subpages do exist.

This "confusing" storage system is one reason why FANDOM is getting rid of comments, message walls, and forum.