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[Ligulem]

NSLE (Wikipedia) wrote:
> ...  I've
> suggested perhaps substituting the templates before they become TFA (and
> re-transcluding after), but do the other list readers have any solution?

If you want have a rock stable unvandalizeable article page, you could 
copy/paste the complete wiki-source content of the article into 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates and copy/paste the 
expanded result back to the article and protect it (don't forget to 
specify the article title on Special:ExpandTemplates).

The resulting "transclusion free" article then depends on nothing else 
but the images.

At least this would correctly "subst" every template, also those using 
parser functions (#if & Co).

Just note though that the resulting version can only serve as temporary 
throw-away "viewing only" page, as that should be reverted back to the 
non-expanded version before further development (I mean further editing).

--Ligulem