User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Template Types: A Smarter Categorization System/@comment-24473195-20151120222719

The best use-case for this would be some sort of interactive tool for page creation / editing. For example, if we take a "standard" wikipedia article. It needs some important components:


 * A description


 * References


 * Link to relevant articles


 * A structured section, based on a template, e.g. an infobox for "living people", or navbox for anime, and so forth.

A similar structure applies to wikia articles too. This tool could be integrated to the page creation wizard and help new and old editors   by telling them that a template is missing, or by listing templates necessary for the new article.

Another idea is showing which articles are "overloaded" with templates, and help to optimize their use by refactoring them or removing them.

The biggest problem is learning how to classify them properly. There are a lot of meta-templates that never get transcluded into main space, and many that are but aren't "notable" enough, e.g. |, which  I think this was added as a parser function in newer mediawiki versions.

Edit:

Suggestion: Add a link from the template page to Special:Templates, e.g. when clicking the template type.