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Of skirts and articles: When significant coverage is only skin deep.

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Of skirts and articles

By JPxG and QuicoleJR

Listen, nobody's going to look through such a pretty article to check that the coverage is "significant" enough. And if they do, just scare them off with a bunch of links that mention the topic exactly once. Works every time.

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Oooooh, that’s a good one. “If I just make it fluffy enough, surely nobody will check, right?” — Every Wikipedia editor once :P Beagle_UAH (talk) 14:39, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

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