User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Template Types: A Smarter Categorization System/@comment-24930713-20151125100824/@comment-126761-20151125151404

Indeed, we are not particularly interested in templates that aren't used in articles (for template classification, anyway) - so they can all be placed in non-article templates. That said, if such a breakdown would be useful for editors, we're happy to look into that.

If we know the type of template being used, we can help it display better on mobile devices - e.g. a quote could be given styling that works better on a mobile device. Classification like this will help us understand what's out there, and how best to treat the myriad templates that exist.