Forum:Problem with Character Infoboxes

The Harry Potter Wiki is having an annoying issue involving its character infoboxes. Whenever somebody edits one using the visual editor feature, the "name" field is removed from the infobox, resulting in " " being displayed instead of the character name. We had thought that the solution would be to get Wikia to disable the visual editor (which has also been the source of a number of other headaches on the wiki), but Wikia refused to do it, citing some nonsense about it being an integral feature, even though major wikis such as the Final Fantasy Wiki and Memory Alpha have had it disabled. So my question is - does anyone know of any other way to sort this problem? It's aggravating having to go back in and restore the name each time this happens, and sometimes the problem on a particular page slips by for days or weeks if nobody catches it. ProfessorTofty (talk) 03:54, October 23, 2012 (UTC)


 * You could try sticking the  magic word in the infobox template. That will disable the Visual Editor, it should work to disable it on every page that includes the template. Alternatively, nested templates will reliably break it and force it into source mode always:


 * Just create a Template:Dummy which has nothing but a single space [bar press] in it then stick the Dummy-Dummy in the page and it should break the VE ("Rich text editing has been disabled because this page contains complex code") Lunarity 04:29, October 23, 2012 (UTC)