Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:44 UTC
I have a template http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTDstart that has several <noinclude> lines. When I edit a page and try to preload that template http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2012-02-18&preload=Template:POTDstart&action=edit those lines have been stripped out. Perhaps this is related to bug 27467?
This behavior is actually intentional, see bug 5210. To put a literal <noinclude> into a preloaded page, you now have to "disable" it with something like <<noinclude/>noinclude> While this doesn't look as elegant anymore, the case where you want to include literal <noinclude> tags onto a preloaded page should be quite rare. Closing as WONTFIX.