Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-5387968-20130417103757/@comment-3528606-20130418003821

452 wrote: I'd rather teach you how to fish, than simply give you a fish, so here's how to copy any other template in the future.

With this specific example,
 * Look at the source: http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Colt_Python?action=edit
 * Near to top of the article is the line  {{Character Info 
 * This is the name of the template being transcluded, you can view the template by adding "Template:" in front of the name, so Template:Character_Info
 * If we go to that page, we can view the source: http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Character_Info?action=edit
 * Feel free to copy and paste any template anywhere on wikia, just remember to attribute the source, I usually just add "Adapted from http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Character_Info" at the bottom of the page.

One thing you do need to be aware of is that sometimes templates include other templates.
 * For a quick list of all templates used on a page, look at the template section in the right sidebar on the edit page and click "Show list of used templates"
 * This particular template, uses Template:Character Info/doc, Template:Characters, Template:Color, Template:Documentation, Template:Infobox, Template:Infobox/row, Template:Navbar, Template:Tocright, and Template:Transclude - so you would need to also copy all of them, if you wanted Template:Character_Info to work without any modification. The other option is to remove all references to those templates.

I hope this has been educational.

edit: typo (I still wish there was an edit summary available for comments) use the link http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Colt_Python?action=raw to get streight to the code (and http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Character_Info?action=raw)