diff --git a/sources/dataBase/projectdatabase.cpp b/sources/dataBase/projectdatabase.cpp
index a63ea6e1a..5c39d3b5a 100644
--- a/sources/dataBase/projectdatabase.cpp
+++ b/sources/dataBase/projectdatabase.cpp
@@ -113,14 +113,17 @@ QSqlQuery projectDataBase::newQuery(const QString &query) {
 
 /**
 	@brief projectDataBase::excludedConductorCount
-	@return how many conductors of the project are deliberately absent from
-	the conductor table because at least one of their terminals has no uuid.
+	@return how many conductors of the project are absent from the conductor
+	table because an endpoint has no parent element to key on.
 
 	Counted from the live scene rather than from the database, precisely
-	because the database is where these conductors are *not*. See
-	addConductor() for why they are omitted: a terminal uuid comes from the
-	catalog .elmt definition, so an element whose definition predates that
-	field yields terminals with no stable identity to key on.
+	because the database is where these conductors are *not*.
+
+	This used to count conductors whose terminals had no uuid, which was most
+	of them on most projects. Terminal::stableUuid() now derives an identity
+	from the terminal's geometry when the definition provides no uuid, so that
+	is no longer a reason to exclude anything, and this counts only the case
+	that remains genuinely unkeyable.
 
 	This is what lets a caller tell the user "N wires are missing and here
 	is why", instead of silently presenting a short list as if it were
@@ -138,8 +141,10 @@ int projectDataBase::excludedConductorCount() const
 		const auto conductor_list = diagram->conductors();
 		for (auto *conductor : conductor_list)
 		{
-			if (conductor->terminal1->uuid().isNull()
-				|| conductor->terminal2->uuid().isNull()) {
+				//Must match addConductor()'s guard exactly, or this reports
+				//wires as missing that the list is in fact showing.
+			if (!conductor->terminal1->parentElement()
+				|| !conductor->terminal2->parentElement()) {
 				++count;
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/sources/ui/wiringlistdialog.cpp b/sources/ui/wiringlistdialog.cpp
index 581b7426b..cf80a6025 100644
--- a/sources/ui/wiringlistdialog.cpp
+++ b/sources/ui/wiringlistdialog.cpp
@@ -77,14 +77,14 @@ WiringListDialog::WiringListDialog(QETProject *project, QWidget *parent) :
 	summary->setWordWrap(true);
 	if (excluded > 0)
 	{
-			//The count matters more than it looks: a project whose elements
-			//all predate terminal uuids yields an entirely empty list, and
-			//without this line that is indistinguishable from a project with
-			//no wires in it.
+			//Rare now that Terminal::stableUuid() gives every terminal an
+			//identity: what is left is a conductor whose endpoint has no
+			//parent element at all. Still worth saying out loud rather than
+			//presenting a short list as if it were complete.
 		summary->setText(tr("%n conducteur(s) listé(s).", "wiring list summary", listed)
 				 % QStringLiteral(" ")
-				 % tr("%n conducteur(s) exclu(s) : leurs éléments ne définissent pas"
-				      " d'identifiant de borne (définition d'élément trop ancienne).",
+				 % tr("%n conducteur(s) exclu(s) : une extrémité n'est rattachée"
+				      " à aucun élément.",
 				      "wiring list exclusion warning", excluded));
 	}
 	else {