Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5645230-20180713165302/@comment-1038387-20180713230556

The edit history logs everyone who wrote (part of) it, and per FANDOM's Creative Commons license, you have to credit the writers. If you copy paste, all of that gets linked to your username. In essence, you claim authorship of everything. This is bad practice if you copy text, but templates like this, not so much.

Many of these templates are so oldand common, the people on the Template Wiki didn't really "invent" them. And they're meant to be reused anyway. You'll add your own changes to it anyway.