Single template for multiple locales How can I avoid local specific templates? I'd like just to use one template for all languages.

My current template structure is extending layouts/_base, and layout/_site [similar to happylager demo] and I have a template called 'help' but i dont want to set 'fr/help', 'es/help'
The best solution is to use sections / entries for ALL of your templates. This not only allows to automatically route each local's page URL to a single template, it also makes it possible to set local specific slugs for each entry. You might not care for translated URLs, but Google does.

So what I recommend is to restructure your setup a bit, add a bunch of singles or even better, a structure named "pages", and set the path to your templates in the section settings.