User blog comment:RePeat/Community Poll on Message Walls/@comment-18933973-20130624000420/@comment-18933973-20130624142757

Ooookaayyyy... Let's not get too pushy over whether or not we keep message walls...

So Obi, you're saying that, like Message Walls, Talk Pages are just as private? With a Talk Page, it would show up in recent activity as a few small words that said, "User talk:(EXAMPLE USER) edited by (EXAMPLE USER)" It really blended in well with the article edits, making it more hidden. With Message Walls, you have this giant box, that not only shows part of the conversation, but it screams, "LOOK AT ME!"

And back to my original point earlier, Talk Pages allowed a bit more freedom when it came to editing one.