Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-26151461-20150705161337/@comment-452-20150705204017

I still don't think you quite understand.

The concept of "exceptions" simply does not apply to the summary version. There is no need for exceptions, as only articles you are the template to are eligible for inclusion in the first place.

If you have 3 articles - Dragon A, Dragon B, and Dragon C - and you only want Dragon A and Dragon B to be randomly selected, then you add the featured template to those articles:


 * Dragon A


 * Dragon B

(No )
 * Dragon C

The the random summary will either be "Dragon A is awesome" or "Dragon B sucks", and Dragon C is excluded from being selected, as there is no summary to select.

The only 167 articles will also be excluded until Template:Featured is added to them.