Thread:Sinthorion/@comment-30645975-20161227035643/@comment-25330335-20161227194135

Well, I can help with the signature template. When wikia signs a post (with the four tilde) with a signature that is a template, instead of just putting the template link code into the signature, it copies the contents of the template into the location the signature is generated. My signature templates (User:SamwiseFilmore/sig and User:SamwiseFilmore/sig2) are the way to get around this. SamwiseFilmore/Sig has the actual code for my signature. Now, if I pasted a template link to that page into my signature box in my preferences, it would copy the code from that page, instead of just leaving a template link. When you use the template link from the second page, it copies the contents of the second page, which is a template link. That way the signature that you leave is the code for your first template page. I hope that made sense...

Also, another piece of info that will be helpful. Any page can be used as a template. Template pages exist so that the links to those templates are shorter than a template link to a regular page.