Thread:JoePlay/@comment-26083398-20160218155432/@comment-171752-20160218212612

That's not a template. That's just an image, depsite the word "template" appearing in the image's title. Like I said, for something to be a template, it has to be in the Template namespace, meaning its page title (as seen on the URL) is Template:______.

As the help page states, one of the most commonly used purposes of an actual template is to quickly and easily embed some content on multiple pages by simply typing on those pages, where "TemplateName" is the name of the template.

For example, many communities use Template:Stub. To add that template, or in other words, to display that message on any page, a user would simply type on the page.