Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Major Deficiency in New topic cat

There's really no easy way to create or edit subtemplates if anything goes wrong. For instance, let's say I want to create Category:en:Just testing. This doesn't have a subtemplate, so it gives a big nasty red box, but no link to anything useful. Attempting to create Category:Just testing using topic cat just give a module error with no non-Lua links at all. A more sophisticated editor might think to look for a category that works and reverse-engineer a subtemplate for this new category, but the average editor will just end up frustrated, and the more sophisticated editor will just be annoyed at having to build their own tools from scratch every time.

Then there's the matter of an error in a subtemplate: just picking a hypothetical example out of the air, ;) let's say someone typed "Ball sports" instead of "Ball games" in a subtemplate, causing all of the categories transcluding the template to display nothing but a module error with something about "Ball sports" not being a valid category- how does someone correct it without running into the issues I just mentioned?

I realize things are still evolving and you're not done yet- but the new topic cat is seriously crippled until this is dealt with- to the point where some might argue we were better off with the old version.