Talk:Editing Guidelines/@comment-24400544-20140422045733/@comment-1264592-20140630002153

Now I understand the problem. The short answer is to write your summary in the visual mode (it also enables you to see how much characters need to be truncated) or simply to write it in a comment and wait for someone else to reenter it.

The long answer has to do with how all description/summary templates work. If you look at the Action template in edit mode you'll see that instead of directly opening fields for Summary and Description, it calls a hidden sub-template called QuoteSummary. That template provide the universal tools for truncation, character counting, categories, as well as the summary field. It's hidden in any template with a description field. That's why you see your code as if it's outside the template - because it really is outside a different template!

Technically, you can force the template by entering  inside the Action or any other template. However, it results in a double call for the sub-template which can bug the parent template. Sometimes the end results looks normal in the preview but wrong on the viewed page and sometimes it's the other way around. So I strongly recommend to use the visual mode for that part of the Action template. Same goes for the BroadChallenge template which sets the broad difficulty.

Wiki templates can be very finicky sometimes.