Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25063193-20140627205803/@comment-452-20140701140100

It sounds like you're using templates in a very nonstandard way.

The purpose of templates is not to "store the entire contents of the page someplace else", it is to "store complex formatting somewhere else, and use with data custom to each page"

You should have a "1 template to many pages" relationship, not a "1 template to 1 page" relationship.

Because you haven't linked to your wiki, it is hard to give you a specific example, but in general:

The Template:Hunter page is a normal template:

The Hunter036 page should include Template:hunter

edit: To use a preload, Template:hunter/blank would contain a blank template:

Just to be clear, it sounds like what you're currently doing is making a Template:Hunter/036 template with the entire contents of the Hunter036 page above, and that the Hunter036 page itself contains nothing but.

Of course, you're free to use templates in what ever way you want, but using them like this will like cause confusion amongst users who do not understand your custom system. The goal should be to make the wiki editing experience as easy as possible, not to make them jump through hoops by having page content stored on a different page.

Unless of course this whole "store everything in a template" thing is an effort to thwart the new Visual Editor, in which case I applaud your ingenuity.