On my creative-venture wiki (and its Referata forebears), I've long had trouble with the <noinclude></noinclude> wraparound on a preloaded template of mine. What I call "Template starter" sets up the bare bones for creating a template, adding a doc-page section that is always hidden from view outside a template's page à la Wikimedia.
With my latest attempt today, I followed the instructions provided at Manual:Creating pages with preloaded text#Loading the preload file (<no<includeonly></includeonly>include></noinclude>), but instead of the expected:
<!-- Please replace this with template content --><noinclude>{{doc tag|categories=<includeonly>Templates</includeonly>}}</noinclude>
all I'm getting is just the comment after loading:
<!-- Please replace this with template content -->
I've tried getting this to work time and again, to the point where spaces before the tag name (< noinclude></ noinclude>) must do as a compromise in our current setup. Of course, that's not really what I even wanted to deal with; I simply want to get the proper s on the page without any hassle. How else to go about it?
(MW 1.37.2; code loaded via Extension:Preloader)
--Slgrandson (talk) 14:17, 17 April 2022 (UTC)