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

My creation, Peta's idea. It's an update for the original Guide to the tube with more info than before, mainly gleaned by trawling through all the forums, with a bit of my own insight. Please if you have anything to say as to updating it still further, then put it in the forum at the entry itself, not this one. Thankyou.

http://www.h2g2.com/A408890

The Ultimate Guide to the London Underground - mark II

What a great article! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this...

Constructive criticism: Many of your sentences are missing key words, commas, or proper syntax. Example: “...facing each other; (add semi-colon here) one for going east...” or this one: “...tunnels ending (add the 'ing' to end) in random places...” At the very beginning of the article, there's a sentence that didn't track properly: “One light at the tunnel...” More mistakes of this nature - I didn't go through and write them all down.

Do a spell check - I only noticed one misspelled word, but they're sneaky things...

Many 'britishisms' in this article. You might want to add footnotes defining some terms for us ignorant Americans, like: bunking, herbert, busker, and blag. Some of the meaning is apparent from context, but it wouldn't hurt to go ahead and define it. Don't take them out - I like the local color. Our society is becoming more homogenized, and I want to halt this trend whenever possible.

- Lentilla

Hi,

This article is hilarious and a perfect partnet to part one.
The thing about the London Underground is that it is so huge and has so much associated culture and folk-lore. This can make it difficult to get everything into one (or two) entries.

Would it not be better to give the London Underground a whole category all to its self in the guide, in 'The Universe/Travel & Transport/ Transport' section where part one is now. Then within the category have articles on individual lines, stations, behaviour on the tube, tube games, buskers, history, etc, etc, etc. It would make it a bit easier to get everything in. I've got a feeling it would be a mammoth project, however, and may not be the sort of thing anybody would want to take on.

Does anybody agree, or is it just a crap idea?

- Adam

I'd agree with that. To start off, the existing entry(s) could be chopped up into bits...

This one seems to have fallen veeeery deep, but is definitely worth to be 'floated up', isn't it?

Agreed. This article is definitely worth inclusion, but with a few modifications. My earlier criticisms still stand.

Lentilla

As does my suggestion

blame it on me -- i didn't check it, but the author seems to have retired. There was discussion about further proceedings somewhere else, but I don't remember.

Editorial Note: This thread has been moved out of the Peer Review forum because it's already in the Edited Guide.