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• Language Skills
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• Low Quality/Low Content
  Examples: Files with no or little information, or incomprehensible text and/or layout. Also, very short tips don't get posted here, so if you've got a good short gaming tip but not quite enough to make a FAQ, try submitting it to GameSages instead; they love that kind of stuff.
• Formatting
  Examples: Proportional-width fonts, HTML files, and word processor features that don't translate to ASCII text. If you write a FAQ using Word or Works, make sure you read the Author's Guide so you'll know exactly the best way to do it.
• Oversaturation
  Example: If there are already 10 walkthroughs for a game and you submit another one, it will be judged much more harshly than the first one received. FAQs for games that do not have them are much more valued than yet another Zelda walkthrough. Other games that have been done to death include Pokemon, Final Fantasy 1-8, and Smash Brothers.
• Incompleteness
  Example: If there are already one or more full walkthroughs or FAQs for a game and you send in one that covers the first ten minutes of gameplay, it probably won't be posted except for brand new games. On the other hand, if there are no FAQs for a game and you've got a very short guide to help people get started, it will proably go up very quickly.

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Just submit it a second time (see the FAQ Submission Guide for more information). As long as it's clear that it's an update to a previously posted FAQ (i.e. by the same author, for the same game), GameFAQs can take care of the rest. In fact, GameFAQs encourages you to update your FAQ as many times as you'd like! If you can, naming your FAQ identically to the name of the file as it is posted on GameFAQs is a great help.

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