Thread:ACDragonMaster/@comment-25026654-20140901131936/@comment-4651437-20140902232352

If it were possible to have comments AND talk pages, it'd be fine, but the problem is, the comments section doesn't really address the needs of a solid wiki. Every large-scale and long-running wiki I've seen uses talk pages specifically because of the issue of needing to have a place to discuss certain things before making sweeping edits, and I've honestly never seen a comments section on any wiki that contributed to the content of the wiki. The long and the short of it is that people primarily seek out fan wikis for in-depth and accurate information, and there's a point where you need to be able to coordinate things somewhere to do that.

Kuroyuri's article is a GREAT example of this: I once recently reverted an edit a user made to replace all the pronouns because the user didn't provide any rationale for it beyond "I think x..." But by the same token, all I could do was revert it and leave a comment saying my reasoning why, but anyone wanting to find that out and discuss it would have to scroll through the whole, rather lengthy article to find it. And due to the fact that comments can't be nested more than one level, you can't have branching discussions and so on.

If all you ever needed was a place for people to put quick remarks of "I like character x!" or "he's soooooo coooool" and little more then the comments section is perfect, sure, but a good wiki should have a pretty high standard of content, and you need somewhere to support that.

Unfortunately, however, Wikia itself is of the belief that its comment system is somehow the superior new best ever thing, which means it's the default setting for wikis hosted on it. So it takes extra work on the part of the wiki's admin to make it otherwise.