Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3157150-20150721104846/@comment-3157150-20150728055944

123777tw wrote: The Pathogen wrote: The reason that is not the case is because of both MediaWiki coding, and because the chat is where those emoticons were originally meant to be used. By increasing the amount of effort needed to use those emotes on the wiki's talk spaces, I intend to lower the abuse that can be caused by them, while still allowing a usable, shorthand form. The shorthand form would be in demand because this template would be used continually.

And I knew the automatic replacement is almost impossibly coming true. Demand or not, adding support for emoticons outside of chat was a decision made as an extension of wiki use. It's not meant to be integrated.