Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-26151461-20150705161337/@comment-452-20150705211140

To feature all pages in the Category:Dragons with the exception of 8 of those, with a summary, you would have to add Template:Featured to 162 articles, and not those 8.

To show a summary, there is no need to "exclude" those 8, because those 8 would never be chosen unless you added the template to those articles.

You could add nottitlematch to the summary version, but it would be pointless, because it only selects articles which have the template, and there is no reason for you to add the template to hose 8 articles if you do not want them to be selected.

The question "How do I exclude articles from being selected" is meaningless in the context of my featured summary system, as it is an "opt-in" system, not an "opt-out" system. You only add the template to the articles you wish to include. To exclude an article, you simply do not add the template to it.

It's like asking "How do I not own a car?" If you don't want to own a car, then you simply do not buy a car.