User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1272757-20110928183043/@comment-3123266-20110928190449

I support this, even though I despise the idea of improvising wiki pages as talk pages --- that is not what wiki pages were designed for! If the Message Wall works out, I don't want others to leave me messages in a form as unstructured as a talk page. However, even if you ban talk pages, there is nothing stopping others from creating subpages from their user page, to serve as a "talk page". So it won't be accessible from a tab... BFD. They'll just use tabview or tabber on their user page itself to work around it.

As such, it makes more sense to leave the tab for talk pages as it is, IFF a top-level talk page exist. The Message Wall tab can co-exist side-by-side with the Talk tab. If some users don't want it at all, have a checkbox under "My Preferences" to suppress the Message Wall tab. I see no reason to protect the talk pages from future edits - just leave them as accessible as they were. Moving forward, we need to have a good user communication system that is designed to do what wiki pages were not designed for: more time composing meaningful content, less time horsing around with a content management system. http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/templates/images/3/3e/Icon_thumbup.gif