Thread:Sgt D Grif/@comment-26510495-20161010185148/@comment-4403232-20161010202325

As per Gastropod, the template was made for use in mainspace articles, and it subsequently became popular for use in personal user pages. However, the updates to our mainspace templates caused them to lose support outside their original function. As a result, we left the old version of the template as with the exact appearance and functionality it had, and adjusted all non-mainspace usage to use that template instead. As a result, your userpages function and appear exactly identical to how they did prior to the template update, the sole exception being the internal coding saying instead of. Had userpages and non-mainspace templates been left alone instead, many users would instead have broken userpages. You are certainly free to revert the edits, however it is not recommended as your page would no longer function properly.