Thread:Grunny/@comment-3361105-20140708161327/@comment-3361105-20140708174807

Just let me get clear on what's happening (I understand wiki markup far better than I understand Lua and other real coding languages).

The snippet is taking the HistoryText, which contains references and images and all that stuff, and because that is loading first (even though it's hidden and supposed to be stripping references) it is causing a conflict with the dpl in the field.

I suppose the fact that the HistoryText is loaded before the infobox at all, means that stripping it of references and links with the snippet module makes no difference to the problem?

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.