User blog comment:Yyp/New Wikia Skin:What we can expect?/@comment-1248963-20100907034713/@comment-1429792-20100912200419

Confirmation that the talk pages are not being done away with from Sannse (Wikia dtaff member):

"Article talk pages aren't going. New wikis have comments, but most old wikis have talk pages. The new look allows for either system"