Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-30856071-20140705072109/@comment-957747-20140705080728

Removing the Talk button and the XX articles on the wikia text fields would actually be a violation of the Customization policy.

There are a few scripts around that will allow you to place a "good article" icon on article pages. At the moment, I can only think of Wookieepedia as a good example. You can see their setup here.