Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20170603074713/@comment-995426-20170711030429

Actually, some people do write templates with relative ease after a lot of practice. And I wrote a lot of Turtlepedia's supplemental templates myself using the raw source editor, including most of the *link templates (I recently repurposed Template:mntglink to link to MNT Gaiden Wiki articles off-wiki), and Template:age and Template:lang, and a bunch of MNT Gaiden templates I've since relocated to the new wiki.

Look at on the MNT Gaiden Wiki. It's heavily templated and CSS stylized. It relies on, , , , , , , , and , and they in turn depend on other templates , , ,  and. They rely on stylesheet classes declared in. I wrote them all, and continue to write new templates as needed and store them in (though I'm lagging behind in providing documentation for them).

My point? A dedicated programmer can pick up skills, retain them, and use them again and again. I don't just rewrite the same template over and over&mdash;I write templates that rely on other templates just like software code relies on libraries that have already been written. Am I right to guess that you aren't really a programmer-type? I mean, that's okay&mdash;it just means your skills are best suited in other areas, such as administration. Some people are just really good technicians, and this comes relatively easily to them.