Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-3032061-20130715045538/@comment-188432-20130715193359

PedroM wrote: He can just substitute icon templates, like. Or just use plain text Yeah, but that's cheating. That's not really using a template. That's using the contents of a template. You'd lose all the benefit of using a template, just to be able to use the RTE. That's a horrible trade-off, surely.

(By substituting, you would dump the literal text of the template on the page.  This means that if you changed the template text, it wouldn't update throughout the wiki.  So if you ever wanted to change the symbol for the game, you couldn't.)