Thread:Kirkburn/@comment-5037778-20120729002848/@comment-4674838-20120730032025

Have you followed the steps on that page where is says "How to Create a Basic Template"? For example, here on Community Central there is a "Like" template at Template:Like. So first you would create that template, using your knowledge of wikitext. And then to use the template on a page, you would edit and type, which makes:

Does that part make sense to you: how to use a template? You just edit a page and type  -- that's the first thing you have to know how to do.