Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-3406131-20140311165139/@comment-122657-20151007030952

It's all about when the DPL is called on the page. If it's called at the end of the infobox, the stuff processed before it doesn't get counted toward the references area.

The character infobox has been fixed so that the DPL is called first-thing, but I don't believe anything else has. (Yet).