h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I like the tongue-in-cheeck tone - crazyness and humour mixed with logic and scientifical facts!

I think it's an excellent entry as well. It has references, which is interesting.

Thanks!

Er, Niwt, *all* my articles have references... why, is it uncommon?

Ah, I dunno, a lot of entries don't. I tried putting them in with a few of mine, but nobody seemed to like them much so I left them out.

When I wrote my very first article, I did the references as I would a project paper (I'd insert a , etc after all the different bits of information I got from different sources - heavily re-written and re-worded of course - and then numbered the refs); the reviewers told me it wasn't needed (it would probably have made the article less accessible). So I got rid of them - but kept the refs at the end.

Yeah, I think it often puts people off reading the entry/looks unsightly, especially with footnotes. However in many of my cases I have very many references, about as long as the entry, which would look bad!