Help:Substituting templates

Template substitution is an alternate way to embed information contained in a template. Substitution is performed by placing the code  between the template braces, before the template name, like this:



How does substituting work?
Normally, a template named will appear to expand to whatever is at Template:Something when the page is saved, but if you edit the page you will still see  in the wikitext.

However, if you substitute a template, the text "" will actually be replaced with whatever is at Template:Something. If you edit the page again after saving, you will no longer see in the text.



Why would I want to substitute instead of using a template directly?

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