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=== general feelings about (some) templates ===
An oversimplification of past experiences in the not so distant past ··· but my overall feelings of templates (experienced here on Rosetta Code) is that templates have a tendency to be used to pound square pegs into round holes,   or at least, that's my observations with the few that impacted my many numerous entries on Rosetta Code.
 
Either the templates don't have the flexibility (or the necessary options) to support what I want (or my meaning), or the people don't know that the converting of (header or title) text into a form that they weren't intended for   (or they/it may have changed the original meaning or intent).   I always thought that templates were mostly used (in the templates that I normally used) for general text (for instance, headers, titles and such)   and to supply a shortcut or abbreviated method to (help) express it succinctly.   That is, to be used as tools, not necessary as a method to enforce conformity.   -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 03:12, 25 August 2016 (UTC)