Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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[edit] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Self-nom (though I can't take all the credit for the article, much as I would wish to). Went through Wikipedia:Peer review recently, have incorporated most suggestions there, including sorting out the referencing. Morwen - Talk 15:09, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comment - archived Peer Review is here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:58, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Support. This is a sci-fi classic. The article features lots of well arranged information, images and history. --ZeroOne 15:48, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Support -- ALoan (Talk) 15:56, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Support. I don't suppose anything can be done about that spoiler warning? --Scimitar 16:48, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- In what way about the spoiler warning? (My vote has to be neutral, I've made many major recent contributions to the page myself). --JohnDBuell | Talk 17:09, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Oh, it's just a bit of an eyesore, occuring right after the lead like that. --Scimitar 22:15, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Support. This is comprehensive, readable, and meets the criteria as I see them.—Theo (Talk) 17:21, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Conditional support. Remove external links from the main article (mainly the 'Interactive fiction and video games' section), move to notes, link with footnotes. Besides that it is a good article and a proof that if something goes through PR first and the comments are adressed, it is likely to pass the FAC with flying colors :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:58, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks. Are there any example pages that do this for cited sources and for external links both that you can point at? Morwen - Talk 18:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Quite a few, for example Anschluss and several others I voiced the very same comment about :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 21:47, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- See, in order to adapt that style we'd have to totally change the reference citing we already did and are quite happy with. If you want to do the heavy loading here, fine but would prefer to find a format that doesn't require us to redo everything. Morwen - Talk 08:20, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- External links turned into notes using the 'ref' and 'Note' system. Actual text references were cited using a different system...should these be combined, or can we work it as is? --JohnDBuell | Talk 18:42, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- See, in order to adapt that style we'd have to totally change the reference citing we already did and are quite happy with. If you want to do the heavy loading here, fine but would prefer to find a format that doesn't require us to redo everything. Morwen - Talk 08:20, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Quite a few, for example Anschluss and several others I voiced the very same comment about :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 21:47, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks. Are there any example pages that do this for cited sources and for external links both that you can point at? Morwen - Talk 18:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Support- well-written, comprehensive article. Just a note: the "red links" in some sections may be a bit distracting... :) Flcelloguy
Give me a note! 
Desk 21:41, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) - Towel... I mean Strong 42 Support. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 05:18, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
- Support Excellent Tuf-Kat 08:15, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
- Support, but is there any reason for the footnote on the name being in the coloured box? I don't like it! And can we commission William Franklyn to read it for Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia? Joe D (t) 20:30, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Or Stephen Fry. Given his wide-ranging and eclectic knowledge, he would make an excellent Wikipedian. -- ALoan (Talk) 21:25, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Oh, yes, get them both on Wikipedia. Additionally, Spoken Wikipedia should have Brian Perkins, Charlotte Green and Eddie Mair read other UK related articles, Christopher Lydon for the US and Phillip Adams for Australia. They all have brilliant voices. Joe D (t) 16:44, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Because many of the images that we've included on the H2G2 related pages use Hitchhiker or Hitch Hiker or Hitch-hiker, and Adams DID say in 2000 that he'd prefer everyone use "Hitchhiker" from then on, we had a note at first, then realized that it'd be better to use a Template so that it could be included in multiple pages. Then there was a debate as to whether or not we should say that "Wikipedia uses this spelling, because Adams said so" with other sites mirroring the content, and figured that again, if it's a Wikipedia template, another site can just change the template if they so choose, instead of changing several pages. If you don't like the colour, change it! :) --JohnDBuell | Talk 19:35, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Oh, yes, get them both on Wikipedia. Additionally, Spoken Wikipedia should have Brian Perkins, Charlotte Green and Eddie Mair read other UK related articles, Christopher Lydon for the US and Phillip Adams for Australia. They all have brilliant voices. Joe D (t) 16:44, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Or Stephen Fry. Given his wide-ranging and eclectic knowledge, he would make an excellent Wikipedian. -- ALoan (Talk) 21:25, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Support Very well done, good refrences, very detailed. --Quadraxis 02:43, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comment MechBrowman asked for the Template:HitchhikerSpellingDisclaimer to be changed so that footnotes are used for inline references, and not directly naming the title of the book in within the note. This has been done. --JohnDBuell | Talk 17:54, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
