Thread:Ethrundr/@comment-5592165-20130402130711/@comment-4631119-20130402190601

Yeah, it's one of the reason. For me, why I put it like that, here's my reasoning:
 * First of all, it's about security aspects. We want to avoid the main page being vandalized, so instead only locking them, we make it bit complicated by making the main page only consist link to template page. The template page then will work as container for further smaller template to build up the main page. Somehow it've been proved that more complicated the linking and the coding in one page, lesser people will try to mess with it, since even to determine which part is the important one is rather difficult if you don't understand how to code at Wikia.
 * Second, as you've said, it helps to create the page less messy, by just letting the main page has the link and the template has the content.
 * Last, by placing it in a template page, it'll allow you to test the page before posting it to the actual main page. Simply remove or remarks the template link on the main page, then modify to the point you like in the template page, without worrying to annoy people, since template edit won't recorded in recent activity, while main page will.

Also, as far as I know, updating mainpage will leave a notification to all users, similar to when we update Community Message, which I found rather annoying, especially when the edit involves multiple minor edits. I believe that most of other wikias also used this kind of method while dealing with the mainpage due to these reasons.

Hopefully you understand what I mean :)

 Ethrundr  (Local Talkpage) 19:06, April 2, 2013 (UTC)