Template talk:Incomplete

How to prevent the template from appearing in the category list

If you didn't intend the template to appear in category listings, you should use the <noinclude> tag around the category code on the page. For example, use <noinclude>[[Category:Articles in need of additional work]]</noinclude>.

See the Wikipedia page about Noinclude and the Transclusion page on MediaWiki for more details. Tag365 (talk) 00:04, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Help, it won't let me edit an article with a incomplete template.

If you are not a moderator, the software will reject ALL changes to the line that contains the incomplete template. So if there are templates or text on the same line as the incomplete, only a moderator can change them.

Evidently the software doesn't warn moderators about this behavior, so they may put the first paragraph of the article on the same line, and nobody can edit it, and the error message you get when you try is totally unhelpful, and the moderator doesn't even realize what they did.

I posted a bug report on this Consumer Rights Wiki talk:Bugs under the title How do you edit beginning of an article with StubNotice? I haven't gotten a response on preferred workaround.

• You could try looking in the article history, see if you can figure out which admin made the first paragraph uneditable, and ask them to put in a newline.
• You could ask at the administrators notice board for somebody to add the newline.
• As a temporary measure, you could make a second copy of the lead paragraph, make your edits on that, and add a comment explaining why two lead paragraphs.
• Please consider posting a brief message on the bug report if this was helpful (or if have other suggestions).
• If you find other templates with the same behavior, please add a similar explanation to them.

Hope this helps. Drakeula (talk) 05:15, 19 October 2025 (UTC)