English Wikipedia user PamD reports that sometimes after replacing one stub template with another she is unable to open the page settings dialog unless she saves and then reedits the page.

I have done a small amount of testing and can confirm that the following steps will reproduce the bug, but only intermittently:

1. Open a page in VE that has one or more stub templates (e.g. any article in [[Category:England stubs]])
2. Delete the/one stub template by selecting it and then pressing the delete key
3. Launch the transclusion tool from the toolbar
4. Enter a different stub template (e.g. Wales-stub), select it from the list and then click "Add template"
5. Add the template to the page by clicking the "Apply changes" button. In my testing I never entered any parameters or options, PamD has not specified whether she does or not.
6. Click the "page settings" button on the tool bar.

If the dialog opens, choose a different article and try again. In my testing it failed to open just under 50% of the time, PamD implies it happens less frequently to her but doesn't specify.

A bit more detail is at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback&oldid=563709233#Can.27t_open_.22Page_settings.22_after_changing_stub_template

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