Forum:Problems With Templates

I have had some problems with templates on a page of the runescape wikia. Rather than showing what it should it shows loads of random stuff that sort of resmbles the template coding. And in other places it just gives a link to the template page. There are 8 templates, 4 of them work fine but the other 4 which are exactly the same don't work. I've tried everything to fix it but nothing works. This is the link to the page, You will instantly see the problem.

Could someone please help or give me some advice on fixing this problem.

King Dharok9 18:53, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It looks like you hit the hard-coded limit of template transclusion, which MediaWiki handles by making all transclusions afterwards links instead of templates/Parser Functions. My recommendation would be to simplify those templates to reduce the amount of recursive transclusion. --Skizzerz talk 19:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I have no idea what a template transclusion is, and how would I go about shortening the templates. King Dharok9 20:26, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Template transclusion is just meaning showing what the template is supposed to. It's a little more complicated than that maybe. Think about mathematical calculations done with a calculator; on many of them, you can put some calculation between ( and ). When you press (, the state of the preceeding calculation is put in a stack until you press ). And if you press ( many times, the stack become bigger (and bigger).
 * Old calculators with less memory could handle only, say, 64 ( press. More than this and they show an overflow error message.
 * So, when you go over the limit of transclusion for templates, it's like the old calculator overflow error. Except that the wiki can process and show result of template that completed before reaching the limit.
 * Feel free to ask more details or so. — TulipVorlax 02:19, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

What is the maximum amount of transclusions you can have in a template then? King Dharok9 13:25, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, that i dont know. I think someone like Dantman might know this. — TulipVorlax 21:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC)