Board Thread:General Coding Help/@comment-5754239-20170629030908

Hi there,

This is a repost from the Community Wikia, and I wasn't able to find any answers there.

Basically, I want to know if it's possible to parse a template parameter for a tag like < ref> so that I can prevent it from being automatically linked.

Right now I'm trying to use #pos, but you can see in the following code that there is really no way to find the tags:

...and as I said on the Community thread, the last example is the one we've decided to use as a workaround, but it still leaves us with almost no way to detect whether we might make a link like this:

~ironwestie (talk to me)(contribs) 03:09, June 29, 2017 (UTC)  