diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 2659762..4f9374c 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -41,7 +41,5 @@ disable=fixme,
         unnecessary-lambda-assignment,
         unspecified-encoding,
         unused-argument,
-        unused-wildcard-import,
         use-a-generator,
         use-dict-literal,
-        wildcard-import,
diff --git a/src/wuttaweb/helpers.py b/src/wuttaweb/helpers.py
index 3319fa1..832c82e 100644
--- a/src/wuttaweb/helpers.py
+++ b/src/wuttaweb/helpers.py
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ This module contains the following references:
 
 """
 
-from webhelpers2.html import *
-from webhelpers2.html.tags import *
+from webhelpers2.html import *  # pylint: disable=wildcard-import,unused-wildcard-import
+from webhelpers2.html.tags import *  # pylint: disable=wildcard-import,unused-wildcard-import
 
 from wuttaweb.util import (  # pylint: disable=unused-import
     get_liburl,