User blog comment:Toughpigs/Create a new article - feature update launching next week/@comment-20644-20100401232122

I’m inclined to say that this was a well-intentioned failure, but I personally wouldn’t want to write it off just yet, as there are smart people here on community central that may be able to figure it out a bit more. You’re right in saying that people sometimes just won’t replace these sorts of things no matter what. Even a bright neon flashing light would probably go unnoticed, which makes me wonder if these pre-formatted pages are all that effective and/or necessary, since the majority of people (I would assume) see other pages before they edit their own and tend to get a feel for what they should look like.

Since the HTML comments won’t work in the RTE (I don’t use it so that slipped my mind altogether, good call), is there any sort of comment that can be added that would be visible, or is that just impossible in a WYSIWYG editor?