Thread:Qwertyxp2000 the second/@comment-1807002-20160328023226/@comment-1807002-20160328055404

If you truly want the opinion of why these tiny templates are so desirable, nested table templates, etc. it's that they make editing in source mode so much easier and cleaner looking. Not cause of one tiny template, it is as a whole/all of them together. If lets say visual mode broken tomorrow completely. Our current templates make editing in source easier and we could add more to make it even more user friendly. Taking them away is like saying we can't cook with fire anymore. Sure we can still survive but it sucks.

On one of my wikis some people with zero wiki/code experience can follow that such template = result in source, and some case it is intimidating but others find it easy to jump right in. But I have purposely refrained from going over board with templates on this wiki due to the fact you want, especially for certain pages, visual mode friendly. But to start by taking away a commonly used icon template does have me worried it will eventually be all or most of the commonly used, especially if source mode persists on having issues bugs.

In the end I guess I want to really know are we accomodating very few how make very few edits to make editing in source less easy for those who edit a lot. I am not saying all this to be argimentive I am simply proclaiming my passion for Wikis, templates are my wiki thing of course I am going to try to keep them. A template-less wiki or a partcial handicap on use of templates, is like cooking without fire. Where as visual mode people are using a microwave - sure it is easy for even kids to use but it is not the best way to cook/end result ain't that great. But you guys get a warm meal and we don't.