The new default 'custom' Off-Topic close reason on per site metas makes no sense

Question

Per-site meta's get their own separate batch of custom close reasons from their respective main sites. This is awesome. Unfortunately, the default text is a little bit nonsensical.

This question does not appear to be about on-topic, within the scope defined in the help center.

I too would like to see more questions about on-topic.

The default should probably read something like

This question does not appear to be about $SiteName, within the scope defined in the help center.

(If, for some reason, the default cannot be changed, consider this a gentle nudge to all of you site-moderators!)

Answer 1

Site moderators can fix this for their own sites by going to the /admin/flags/close-as-off-topic page of their meta site (any question → close → off-topic → edit these reasons) and changing the Default Off-Topic Close Reason to something like:

This question does not appear to be about [Arqade](http://gaming.stackexchange.com),
within the scope defined in the
[help center](http://gaming.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta).

(I preferred to link straight to the relevant page of the help center, rather than just the front hub.)

Answer 2

Looks like the $Topic variable for metas is set to "on topic":

Fun fact: I tried switching it to $SiteName, and I got this:

This is wrong too, it's the exact opposite of the first rule of Meta Club.