Thread:Hatebunny/@comment-18172179-20150517215511/@comment-25737724-20150518001834

I was really a novice a while back, and I still am compared to Hatebunny. But If I were to explain Hatebunny's comments to the novice "me", what I missed out on was I didn't understand what a category was for the longest time. I didn't realize adding to a page was the equivalent of editing a page and typing in "SforHopeCat" in the categories on the right hand side in the categories box. They both add "SforHopeCat" to that page.

A simple way (albeit it can do more) to think of template as a fancy way to include stuff. So pretend you had page SforHopePage and it was blank with no categories. Also pretend you had a Template:SforHopeTemplate and the only thing in that template was. Now edit your SforHopePage and add as the only thing in it. It will include the SforHopeCat to your SforHopePage. I swear if you read that once or twice it will make sense. ;)

The include and noinclude are fancy ways of either having stuff only render on the template, or only render on the page the template is being called on. Sorry for the poor explanation, I tried and I know that what I didn't understand for a long time. Here's a much better one: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion