Why is it that templates on Wikipedia becomes "Template:I"?

Question

There are template usage that renders as Template:I instead of the template usage, e.g.

When we look at the edits and preview, it renders correctly:

It looks like the page is labelled with the category Pages where template include size is exceeded.

How to resolve this and render it correctly?

alvas · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-22 01:07:55Z

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This can be resolved by replacing the template usage with [[internal_link]], e.g. before:

{{l|cmn|掩饰|tr={{l|cmn|掩飾}}, yǎnshì}}

After:

* [[掩饰]] ([[掩飾]], yǎnshì)

answered Feb 22, 2017 at 1:07

alvas

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This answer kind of suggests that the template is useless, what is the purpose of the template and why can it be discarded?
– pzkpfw
Feb 23, 2017 at 0:56
There's a limit on the no. of templates a page can show in wikipedia. So to overcome the limitation, replacing the templates with internal links would work once the page hits the limit =)
– alvas
Feb 23, 2017 at 0:57
That doesn't answer my question, what is the purpose of the template and why is it not needed?
– pzkpfw
Feb 23, 2017 at 4:03

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