User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-4189499-20141002011135

Will the VisualEditor ever be source compatible, like the classic RTE, allowing users to input templates etc source style and have it rendered properly upon saving? That is literally my only complaint about this editor, but it is a big one. It's much easier to input simple templates like Delete if you can just type it straight into the editing field, rather than having to either search for a source editor or search for a special template input button/box/whatever, and it also means it's much easier to instruct new editors on how to add these basic clean-up templates, which we use a lot. I'm not thinking about this from making my own like simpler, as I use the classic source editor, but I'm thinking about the new users who are going to get confused. I guess I'm thinking about myself a bit in that I'll have to rewrite all our help pages, and relate it to a thing I'm not particularly experienced with myself (because of my always use of the source editor), but those help pages will also be harder for a new user to follow. It's much easier to say:
 * To tag a question for deletion, simply write reason anywhere on the page, replacing the word reason with the reason for deletion along with a link to the policy it violates by putting it's shortcut between double square brackets ( like this ).

than:
 * To tag a question for deletion, click on the "insert" drop-down, then click "template", then, in the dialogue box which opens, search for "delete". Click on the "Delete" box that comes up.  After the basic template is put on the page, another dialogue box will open with two input fields.  Put your reason for deletion in the second of these input fields, labelled "1". Make sure you include a link to the relevant policy by writing the name of the policy shortcut between double square brackets ( like this ).

Look how much easier the first example is to explain, and it pulls new users further into the wiki experience. Please please please make the visual editor compatible with wikitext to make life easier on all editors!