Template:Did you know nominations/Meltan and Melmetal

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The result was: promoted by Mifter (talk) 21:56, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Meltan and Melmetal

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• ... that when the Pokémon Meltan was first revealed in Pokémon Go, many players thought it was a placeholder revealed by a glitch? Source: TechCrunch - "Was it just a glitch? Many players assumed that Niantic put this thing in as a placeholder and a glitch brought it into public view. Or did they really just drop an entirely new Pokémon into the game out of nowhere?"; Polygon - "Many players initially wondered if the new Pokémon was some type of glitch,"

• Reviewed: Li Xifan
• Comment: Video game DYKs seem to be a bit lacking anyways.

Moved to mainspace by Juxlos (talk). Self-nominated at 19:45, 22 November 2018 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good to go on all fronts. It should be interesting enough to those outside of the Pokemon fandom. SounderBruce 05:39, 24 November 2018 (UTC)