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

OK thanks Alex, I've gone with that.

Come on Mr D. Do you seriously think I can write a whole guide entry on the contents of Broadmoor without mentioning the L word?

"Broadmoor Hospital was the country’s first purpose-built lunatic asylum"

This is not strictly true - Bedlam was purpose built three times (A2554157) as a lunatic asylum, and there were other asylums appearing around the same time too. It was the first purpose built for the criminally insane though.

Talking of Bedlam, the link isn't showing in the side bar as there's an extra space between the entry number and the " - it should be Bedlam

Footnotes hould be proper sentences, and I'd lose the brackets:

The others being Ashworth in Merseyside, Rampton in Nottinghamshire and Carstairs in Lanarkshire.

Here's a link for Richard Dadd http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/ripper/killer_art.shtml

I put it in as I had no idea who he was, and didn't think anyone else would either. He seems to have got about a bit!

We don't do BBC related links in the entry anymore, so if you really want that search link you need to put it between REFERENCES tags. Ideally you could find some specific links though.

Great entry! There used to be a iren sounding in Brentwood when I wqas growing up, and with the cruelty of children used to say it was the lunatics escaping. I'n no idea now whether it was the local hopsital, or actually the Thermos factory calling the workers back in!

Many thanks Mina

Agree with all that, and changed now, except for:

1) Your Richard Dadd link appears to be broken - has the BBC moved it?
2) I'll have a think about references and update later this week(the BBC search will go)

Icy

It appears to be broken. I should have checked it before I posted it. I'll have to get it removed from my entry.

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Terrific!

Thanks Guys - your support was much appreciated

Beginner's luck, I'm sure.

That was fairly painless. I guess that's not always the case, right?

The entry was well written and didn't lack much to start with, so that's probably why. Then a catching title - I mean, I can't imagine I'm the only one who thought of Homer, was I ? - so that's maybe what attracted people and made things easy

Well done

B'Elana's right. When you have a good entry to begin with, when you understand that the purpose of PR is to critique and point out flaws in an entry in order to make it as good as it can be, and having understood that, you don't start throwing tantrums when a reviewer, er... reviews, there's no reason why PR should be anything but a breeze. The only people who have a problem with PR are those who let their ego get the better of them.

Hi Icy,

I've been given your wonderful entry to subedit, and the result is at A7414292. If you spot anything that needs attention, please drop me a note.

SchrEck Inc.

Hi Schreck,

It all looks fine to me. In fact I can hardly spot anything you might have changed - the mark of a good sub-editor, no doubt.

Publish and be damned!

Icy

Thanks... and there were not too much changes necessary, in fact.