Template use in non-wiki forums
Linking to a template has limited utility
Since we have both the Default and the Help namespaces available to provide links and popups for arbitrary articles, I had thought that the Template namespace would be much more useful, if it could be used to insert simple boilerplate information in regular forum/non-wiki articles just like it does for wiki articles when used without parameters.
I don't think this conflicts with any usage in Wikimedia and it seems like a much more natural use of [template]boilerplate[/template].