Board Thread:General Coding Help/@comment-24473195-20160210110408/@comment-24473195-20160211110605

It is mostly old messages delivered by the wikia "welcome" bot. Maybe a good idea for Special:Contact because there is probably no benefit to keeping welcome messages (even in normal talk pages) for IPs that have never responded, especially considering that someone else will /may  get that IP one day.

But it is also generally a good idea have a script / bot that will go to all pages and remove or change links when they are deleted or changed. Message walls and threads prevent that. Redirects  are unfortunately not always appropriate.