Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-26407541-20150710132516/@comment-5558012-20160408132423

I prefer message walls. Notifications are more straightforward, you don't have to deal with signatures, comment formatting, page formatting, creating archive pages, etc. The user can remove threads/replies from their message wall without an Admin so you still have control over what's on your wall. Little do people know, as Wikia doesn't advertise it, is that message walls do have a history page (WallGreetingButton brings it to the open) were you can quickly see threads that have been created, removed, deleted, and restored as well as a link to every individual thread's history and a list of ever user that's posted on your wall. You can quickly find a thread through it. As an experience user, adding/removing messages is just as easy on either but for a new user message walls promote more activity through ease of use. One of the reasons I prefer message walls over user talk pages is because I can (and do) archive messages individually simply by closing them. There's no need to create multiple pages just for archiving purposes.