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->''"Thanks for finally blue-shifting the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid MGS]] links, BTW."''
-->-- '''Tropers/{{Ununnilium}}'''

On most Wikis, a link to an existing entry is in blue, and a link to a non-existing one in red. If a particularly interesting item is linked a lot, and yet no one actually creates the page to go with it, the text remains red.

Then someone does create the page, and the resulting change in colour scheme makes the world feel slightly better. When this gets out of hand, you get an Administrivia/AllBlueEntry.

This is an allusion to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_shift a particular instance]] of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect Doppler effect]] in physics.

Compare RainbowSpeak.

For the ''Half-Life'' expansion, see ''VideoGame/HalfLifeBlueShift''.
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Then someone does create the page, and the resulting change in colour scheme makes the world feel slightly better. When this gets out of hand, you get an Administrivia/AllBlueEntry, and when it outspills the wiki environment, you've got BlueFever.

Then someone does create the page, and the resulting change in colour scheme makes the world feel slightly better. When this gets out of hand, you get an AllBlueEntry, and when it outspills the wiki environment, you've got BlueFever.

For the ''Half-Life'' expansion, see ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''.

For the ''Half-Life'' expansion, see ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''.

->''Thanks for finally blue-shifting the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid MGS]] links, BTW.''\\
-- Tropers/{{Ununnilium}}

For the ''Half-Life'' expansion, see HalfLife.