User blog comment:Thomasfan502/Season 8 Discussion Blog/@comment-2056915-20180619022305/@comment-31892545-20180827223242

Ok, I’ve done some research, and it seems that when Wikis switch from talk pages to message walls, users’ archived talk pages can be found by clicking “see archived talk page” at the bottom of their message walls. However, the talk pages become uneditable (unless you type a few things in your address bar or use the “History” toolbar, so that’s a workaround). And, if you made archives yourself, I believe you can even link to them in that new archive namespace.

So, I think that gives us some insight. I’m just unsure about where article talk pages would go if replaced with comments. I bring all this up because I know losing message history was a concern of Evelyn’s.

Implementing both these features would, I think, improve engagement as it is more accesssible to type a comment for Wiki work or leave a message with no signature.