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Having trouble adding new items to a list template

Follower_of_Light

Salutations everyone!

I’ve recently had some trouble adding new items to a template that lists recurring elements in a video game series, and for the life of me I cannot understand what the problem is. I can see the changes I make on preview pages and after saving the changes, but none of the edits seem to take hold on the pages themselves that use the template. The items in asterisks are the new features I want to add:

{{nav|header|Game mechanics|:Category:Game_Mechanics|title=Game Mechanics|class=navMainSeries}}
{{nav|section|Combat Mechanics|class=navMainSeries|

  • [[Stats]]
  • [[Magic and Abilities]]
  • [[Critical Hit]]s
  • [[Coup de Grâce]]
  • [[Defend|Defending]]
  • [[Fleeing]]
  • [[Monster recruitment]]
    *** [[Party Chat]]**
  • [[Tension]]
  • [[The party]]
    *** [[Thievery]] **
    *** [[Vocation system]]**
    }}
    {{nav|section|Facilities|class=navMainSeries|
  • [[Inn]]s
  • [[Bank]]s
  • [[Church]]es
  • [[Casino]]s
  • [[Monster Arena]]
    *** [[Wagon| The Wagon]]**
    }}
    {{nav|footer}}
    [[Category:Navigation templates|DQSkills]]

But if one looks at the template on a normal page such as here: https://dragon-quest.org/wiki/Vocation_system you can see they aren’t materializing despite being in the template already.

If anyone could please lend a hand in this matter I would be most appreciative, and if this isn’t the right area for a help request of this nature by all means move it to the correct page.

Tgr

Typically this is a caching problem. If you can fix it by purging the page where the template is included, that means your job queue is slow or not running at all. Otherwise, some extension is probably interfering in some way (e.g. you are using Translate and didn’t re-mark the page for translation).

Papuass

Instead of purging you can also do so called “zero edit” when you open the page and save without modification.