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== FYI ==
== FYI ==


It is a violation of [[Metroid Wiki: Quality Standards|our quality standards]] to create articles as stubs. You can either write an article of sufficient length that can be modified later, or you can create a sub-page for works in progress. Thanks and keep contributing. [[User:Metroid4Ever|<span style="font-family:vivaldi;color:white"><font size="5.5"><b>Metroid</b></font></span>]][[User talk:Metroid4Ever|<span style="font-family:vivaldi;color:white"><font size="5.5"><b>4Ever</b></font></span>]] 06:58, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
It is a violation of [[Metroid Wiki:Policy|our quality standards]] to create articles as stubs. You can either write an article of sufficient length that can be modified later, or you can create a sub-page for works in progress. Thanks and keep contributing. [[User:Metroid4Ever|<span style="font-family:vivaldi;color:white"><font size="5.5"><b>Metroid</b></font></span>]][[User talk:Metroid4Ever|<span style="font-family:vivaldi;color:white"><font size="5.5"><b>4Ever</b></font></span>]] 06:58, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
:Huh, I never realized that. Sorry, just wanted to get up to 1000 articles. --[[User:Nintendbob|Nintendbob]] 09:56, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
:Huh, I never realized that. Sorry, just wanted to get up to 1000 articles. --[[User:Nintendbob|Nintendbob]] 09:56, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
::Yeah, 1000 articles is a nice goal and all, but article boosting isn't acceptable. It's hard to brag about having 1000 articles if a bunch of them are one or two lines. And that part of the quality standards really should be revised. It was placed there after a large-scale vandal attack where the vandal would create articles on the wanted pages list. So our users decided to create them first simply by placing something like:
::Yeah, 1000 articles is a nice goal and all, but article boosting isn't acceptable. It's hard to brag about having 1000 articles if a bunch of them are one or two lines. And that part of the quality standards really should be revised. It was placed there after a large-scale vandal attack where the vandal would create articles on the wanted pages list. So our users decided to create them first simply by placing something like: