Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-1155275-20160202135905

Hello! I've recently set up my first wiki and I am digging though other sites to get ideas and learn the tools of the trade. One thing I am wondering about is the (excessive?) use of templates, especially on front pages.

As an example take http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Destiny_Wiki, where most of the front page is template imports. Some of them I can understand, but why is even the welcome-portion up top http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Portal/Welcome a template? It's only used on that one page as far as I can see, it's not reused on any portal pages like they may be on other sites.

What am I missing?

-Nord 