Help:Lint errors/stripped-tag
The stripped tag error is triggered when a closing tag or wikitext markup is inserted without its opening tag. For example:
{{Small|This small text is not italic.</i>}}
Here, a closing "</i>" tag is present, but an opening "<i>" tag is missing.
This can be fixed by addition of opening "<i>" tag inside a template or by removal of closing "</i>" tag in the template.
So it should be like this (with correct tags):
{{Small|<i>This small text is not italic.</i>}}
This error can also appear in conjunction with a "missing end tag" error when there is a line break that is not supposed to be present, for example in the middle of a set of <span>...</span> tags, or in a template that wraps a parameter in span tags.
To fix both errors with a single edit, remove the line break or replace it with <br />.
This error can sometimes appear when a table is not properly ended, either because it uses a template like {{Col-end}} instead of |}, or because |} is missing entirely.