Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5643552-20130318035847/@comment-5643552-20130319024951

Benjaminthewill123123 wrote: Benjaminthewill123123 wrote: I DONT SEE WHAT YOU MEAN!!!!

subst is usually used to access user-sub pages I see what you mean now but adding subst makes it impossible to make wiki wide changes to a template.

This is just for talk page templates, for which making site-wide changes to is not NECESSARY nor does it make much sense in the first place. Take, for example, someone who was blocked for a week for creating spam pages in the past, and then, suddenly, after months of the message on their talk page saying "you have been blocked for 1 week", it says "you have been blocked for 3 days". And yet the block log remains unchanged.