Thread:Grunny/@comment-3361105-20140708161327/@comment-11536-20140708180251

Hatebunny wrote: Now, as for an alternative if you're not willing to remove DPL, would be to possibly try to let our snippet generator do the job of that module for you.

I'm afraid I'm just not really sure what this means. Are you referring to Cid as a module in this sentence? If that's the case, the last thing I want is to come up with Frankenstein-like workarounds that can't apply to every case.

If I read correctly, you want the snippet module to include all of the page, and then strip it of all non-history text? If it works and isn't too expensive (and doesn't break anything), I'm game.

The possibility of a workable alternative is exciting and desirable - I've just lost track of what the alternative you're proposing is. Sorry, what I meant was simply remove the snippet module from the template entirely, wrap the quote template in a div, and tweak the infboxbuilder a little then let Wikia's code generate the snippet which goes into the  which is what Google uses. By default, the code removes things wrapped in divs and tables. So, for at least articles like Batman (Bruce Wayne) (I haven't checked for all your character pages for variations), the default method of getting that description will use the HistoryText anyway, removing the need to put a snippet at the top of the article. Does that make sense, or did I make it worse? :P