Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-26151461-20150705161337/@comment-452-20150705172341

Star Warden wrote: Also, can exceptions be added to that feature? Technically, yes, by using nottitlematch.

However, since it only selects articles in Category:Featured containing Template:Featured, exceptions are irrelevant.

If you don't want an article be be selected, don't add Template:Featured.