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Introduction

Gradius is a new article I'm creating. It's a Nonsense article. Please help me with the following:

• Getting the Table of Contents to display properly
• Getting the Categories box to display properly
• Getting the Edit Section tabs to display properly Fixed!!!
• Any additional Gradius phrases or phrase variants I may have missed

Thank you for your help in creating yet *ANOTHER* Nonsense article. --SPY Administrator (Complain|I rock|In memoriam) HMRFRA WH 19:40, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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i put your TOC on the left..hope thats ok. As to your overlap, i THINK that because you started listing your 'regular' catagories, and then force-specified your 'specials'...that is the cause, but i'm not sure, as im new to this site.(hope that made some sort of sense--Finnius 23:25, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

First: The TOC needs to say "DESTROY THE CORE!" at the top. Second: I tried the categories after the specials, but it failed, so I switched the order. --SPY Administrator (Complain|I rock|In memoriam) HMRFRA WH 12:35, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

hurm...well now i understand why you had a noTOC...perhaps you could find something from dynamicdrive's site. They have some good little java applets. Failing that, i suppose you could stop talking to me and find someone that has been here A LOT longer than me to find out if such a thing is possible....IF both of these options fail, i would highly suggest creating a 7 foot high sculpture of the Holy Wombat. Said sculpture MUST be made from rotten banana's (his favorite sacrifice). During the early hours between 2:41 and 2:58, on the 5th Sunday after the next blue moon, before you've done your homework, and after you have excused yourself from soccer practice, put your brother's coat on the 2nd peg down from your girlfriend's, light the rotten banana sculpture, and dance naked and free, secure in your newfound religion of choice.--Finnius 22:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Begin Unrelated Crap That Doesn't Belong Here...uh...Here

What does a Gradius taste like ? Chicken ? and if so, what the b-b-buck is chicken ? --Vosnul 20:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

No. Gradius tastes like laser-fried organic wall. --SPY Administrator (Complain|I rock|In memoriam) HMRFRA WH 12:35, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Comments on the rewrite

I say "rewrite" because previous versions of the article were deleted.

The writing style is obviously better suited to Illogicopedia [1] than to Uncyclopedia. That is, it isn't really understandable to people not already familiar with the Gradius series. Consider placing a picture request tag {{AAP}} on the article (does anyone have any pictures that would improve the article's understandability?). See Uncyclopedia:Pee Review to get a more thorough analysis. In the future, when creating a major rewrite like this, do it in userspace first and then get a Pee Review.

Note to admins: If the WIP expires, consider moving the article to the userspace link I provided above; also consider moving the article to Illogicopedia. Pentium5dot1 06:19, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't say obviously better suited. We like a little bit of nonsense as long as it's funny too, and this (while not the most original thing in the world) just about fits the bill. I have no idea about Gradius, but I get the general idea. -- (but) Untrue  Whhhy?Whut?How? *Back from the dead* 07:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Even if I were not writing this and I weren't familiar with Gradius, I'd have to agree with Strange but Untrue on this one. The point is, Gradius is primarily composed of picking up powerups that, when used, cause the phrase corresponding to the powerup to be uttered by an announcer. Also, whenever you get to a boss, the phrase "Destroy the Core!", "Destroy them All!" and "Shoot it in the...funny bone!" occur if the boss has one "core", several "cores", or no "cores", respectively. (The core is the only damageable section of the boss.)

Oh, and did I mention that this was the first game the Konami Code showed up in? --SPY Administrator (Complain|I rock|In memoriam) HMRFRA WH 12:45, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

So is my request for an image still a valid idea? Pentium5dot1 00:30, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. However, I think I can get some images myself. All the same, I will indeed tag it. --SPY Administrator (Complain|I rock|In memoriam) HMRFRA WH 00:37, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

(arbitrary outdent) I see that you were trying to make some pixel-accurate adjustments to the category box, but it seems to be way off on my system, possibly because I have the Windows font-rendering size set to Large Fonts. I'm not an expert on MediaWiki/HTML/CSS, but we might want to get some Mac and Linux users to check on the article too. Pentium5dot1 00:48, 18 October 2007 (UTC)