Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-26828130-20160804041449/@comment-1757994-20160804191151

Using a replaceable parameter as a var name (e.g., ) is unusual, but it seems to work. Variables are meant to be able to be shared among all templates on a single page. It appears to be a caching issue with, because 

works as you expect it to work. Using  is a hack. The (Wikia) reason  doesn't work is because the last edit to it was the addition of the , which produces no output, so Wikia's cache (probably thinking it's being smart) retains the previous edit, which doesn't have the. Welcome to Wikia. The cache here has issues.

FWIW,  has 

{| ... which you can change to  {| ... which will change the output and (should) update the Wikia cache. You probably don't want the extra carriage return, anyway.