I did see that you can use -noreorder. The problem with no reorder is that then you are just inserting at the very last line of the page. But I finally understood what add_text does The thing that is misleading is that it doesn't "insert above category and language links but below the rest of the text" like it says. It's true that add_text has that effect when pages follow the order of 1. content 2. templates 3. categories 4. language links but in English Wikipedia there are sometimes things stored inbetween categories and language links ( I agree that the practice of doing that is bad). In fact what add_text does is remove the categories and language links, insert text at the end, and then paste back on categories and language links. That means that if there are other things inbetween categories and language links then they will jump up in order. I refactored my code to stop using add_text and am running using a modified version of replaceExcept to insert text via big switch statement searching for the first category, or first {{persondata}}. Thanks, Max