Thread:MTracey1/@comment-294719-20120606192216/@comment-294719-20120607032202

Okay, I did a bit of poking, and it turns out that the Talk namespace still exists, but it's now sort of a namespace alias rather than a proper namespace. Most Talk: pages simply redirect to specific comments in the comments section. For instance, Talk:Trial Mountain Circuit/@comment-178.36.100.74-20120218132304/@comment-Gp75motorsports-20120530044950 redirects to a comment on Trial Mountain Circuit. Still, to use the old talk: space would make it unnecessarily confusing, because people would think that Talk:Trial Mountain Circuit redirects to that page's comments when in fact it leads to the as-yet-nonexistent talk page for Trial Mountain. If we had a namespace with a different name in which to discuss the article, it would make things a bit clearer.