Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/What about all the nice things Wikitext offers us? Will they be available in Flow?/reply (41)

User talk space is being used to discuss what should be in articles, although most of that should be in article talk space or project space. Discussion of how to do something in Wikimarkup could be in the talk page of the article the markup is to be used in, but that doesn't work if the article hasn't been written yet, and it doesn't work well if the markup concept is to be used in multiple articles, but not as a template.

And, I say again. Unless article sections can be copied between articles and Flow messages, and can be edited in Flow messages, Flow is not suitable as a replacement for article talk pages. There may be alternatives, but, if Flow doesn't use Wikimarkup, then there must be a way to translate between Wikimarkup and Flowmarkup, such that any Wikimarkup (including templates) can be translated, and the translation can be done with fidelity. There might be exceptions for Wikimarkup and templates which should never be used in articles, but the Flow team must be prepared to quickly implement in Flow any Wikimarkup which is used in articles, or give up on using Flow as a replacement for article talk pages.

By designing this version of Flow, ignoring features which are presently used on user talk pages but do not match your model of what user discussion pages should be, you may be preventing integration of functionality which will be required for article talk pages.