Thread:Undoniel/@comment-1895174-20151008054505/@comment-122657-20151010164712

The infobox problem is due to how and when we use DPL in there.

DPL looks up the month and year for the first and last appearances. Because of the way it works, it breaks the references that occur before it. So anything that's created after that section of the infobox (like the history section) has references that work, and anything before it (the rest of the infobox) doesn't.

We figured this out by the Character Infobox being built by the lua infobox builder. This neat little feature lets you create parts of the box out of order, but specify where they're shown. So the character infobox creates the first/last section before anything else, but puts it at the end. This solves the references problem.

Unfortunately, both the 'normal' way to build infoboxes as well as the new portable infobox syntax that Wikia needs to support mobile devices viewing our content don't let you do this.

I'm looking for a solution that would let us call the DPL earlier on the page and let the references all work, but that's all I've got so far.