Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38078079-20191205111715/@comment-9605025-20191205205628

Tupka217 wrote: ...

... Sorry, but you don't need your fancy templates on an RP thread for it to work. It isn't just RP. Templates are also useful for sharing any significant amount to standard stats. For instance, on the Transformers Legends wiki, we had a template that helped each player layout their costs and gains for the weekly event. Breaking down how much money they spent and on what, how much in-game currency they spent and one what, how many bosses the beat broken down by type and level, the number of reward tokens they got broken down by type, and the regards they got broken down by type and amount of tokens spent.

Yes, technically you don't "need" wikitext to do it. But if you are going to go there, you don't technically "need" it for CC and dev wiki either. Instead, you could just get used to code being formatted as any other text and using screenshots of test pages instead of in-message examples. Whether or not wikitext is useful to a wiki's discussions is not a question of absolute need but convenience, even for CC and dev wiki.