Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-26304798-20160602150926/@comment-1757994-20160602175250

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.

Also, having article comments enabled doesn't disable/delete Talk: pages. The real question would be, I think, if you turn comments off and then back on, are the previous parent-child relationships remembered?