Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Wikiformat in threads/reply (6)

Not supporting template transclusion won't actually cause as many problems. For example: DPL bot currently subst's a template that amounts to a typed-out message saying that you linked to a dab page.

Okay, we need those messages. But do we really need that message to be "a template"? Don't we think that we could just have DPL bot leave a message for you without technically using "a template" (directly) to get those words onto your talk page? It would require tweaking the bots, but this seems totally achievable to me.

The unblock template is perhaps more complicated, since it adds a category and some instructions rather than just a message. But I still think that it might be feasible to find a non-template solution for this. For example, what if all block messages had both a "Reply" and a "Request unblock" button, with the latter providing all the support that the template currently does (except without expecting newbies to be able to use a transcluded template properly, since we know that some of them can't)?