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

Entry: Watford - A4199754
Author: apples72 - U1011814

First entry. Is it ok to reference previous entries? Please be kind :-}

Okay, um... I take it you haven't read the <./>writing-guidelines</.>, something I would highly advise. When you do, you will discover that an entry suitable for Peer Review needs to be your own factual and somewhat detailed information about your subject. And I'm sorry to say that what you've written about Watford just doesn't cut it. I heavily encourage you to try again with your own new material, and please don't get discouraged - many people have their first entries criticised in such a way.

You can remove your entry from Peer Review by clicking on the 'x' next to where it appears in the Forum listing.

Thank you, and please keep contributing to the Guide!

To be absolutely blunt (and as kind as possible), this is not what writing entries for the Edited Guide is all about. If you simply want to write an entry about Watford you can do so (and have done), but if you want it to get into the Edited Guide - which is the purpose of submitting it to Peer Review - it has to be much more wide-ranging. Take a look at this entry on Brentwood which was submitted to Peer Review a few days ago for instance A4188189

The point of writing for the Edited Guide is to provide it with original writing, not to link to other Researchers' entries and add a bit of content. When you were going through the process of submitting this entry you would have been prompted to read a number of other pages, including PeerReview, Writing-Beginners and Writing-Guidelines. These are important pages and it would be worth your while familiarising yourself with them, and perhaps watching what goes on in Peer Review before submitting entries here.

We've all been through the same process - submitting our first entry to PR, but the most successful writers of edited entries are, generally, those who have bided their time and learnt the ropes.

Is everyone so dis-satisfied with the place they live ?

So many first entries are negative comments about home towns.

Furthermore, the Entry you linked to is also woefully inadequate. This would be a wonderful opportunity for you to update the original Entry by and submit it to 'Update Forum'. However, you'll need to contact the original author first to advise 'him' that you intend to do this, in case he wants to assist in the process

As Oojamakiv (I think!?) indicated above, the recent Entry on Brentwood would be a good guide as to how such an Entry should be written.

... P.S. But don't expect a response from Garfield as he hasn't posted since March 2000, so has probably 'Elvised'.

4 weeks again.

It looks like apples72 has elvised (last posting June 15th), so I propose a move back to the entry. Any seconds?

2nded