diff --git a/doc/todo/Default_text_for_new_pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/Default_text_for_new_pages.mdwn
index 17feddf7e..590a80a00 100644
--- a/doc/todo/Default_text_for_new_pages.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/Default_text_for_new_pages.mdwn
@@ -95,3 +95,8 @@ in-house means instead of this patch; use a procedure as I do in the Hurd wiki?
 > [[ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate]] should be added to [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]]
 > (and I'd make that change myself, but the edit needs to happen in the underlay,
 > not in the online docs).  -- [[Will]]
+
+>> Go ahead and make the edit, ikiwiki's source is arranged such that edits
+>> on this wiki to files that form the underlay will affect the underlay.
+>> (Clearly I won't be adding duplicate functionality.)
+>> --[[Joey]]