Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24847491-20140609003414/@comment-856287-20140609055640

It's because the new wiki uses the New Visual Editor as the default, and when the New Visual Editor is on, it doesn't offer blank/standard templates.

Go to Special:Preferences > Editing > Preferred Editor, and change it to Wikia's Classic Rich-Text Editor, or Source Editor.