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

I note that the original entry is written in fairly clipped English in places, a little like a dictionary definition rather than an essay. This is easily rewritten to make the text flow a little better.

If we turn this thread's attention to how this already great entry can be improved, rather than dwelling on the legalities of it ( ), by the time the improvements have been implemented it could conceivably be a new entry altogether.

(This is, of course, also a practical example of why cutting and pasting is always less favourable than simply rewriting )

Hi Folks -

Thanks for all your comments. I have edited the entry a bit based on some of your suggestions. It's now in Guide ML format so it looks a little better, and I added in some information about how the film was recieved and how it was made. I didn't take out any plot because I thought that what I have at the moment is important to understand the themes of the film, but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, let me know what you think.

To reiterate, I wrote this entire entry all by myself. I didn't copy it from anywhere else. Not even a little bit of it. Maybe the style is a little more terse than other entries on h2g2, but I wanted to make it similar to an encyclopedia entry, which is a little more organized, a little more professional, and I think a little more useful and easy to read.

As some of you have commented, this was originally posted on wikipedia. My understanding (which may or may not be correct) is that I retain the copyright to anything I post on wikipedia or h2g2. That means I can publish it anywhere else I want. H2g2 said I could, but they didn't like it too much, so I took it off wikipedia. It's still somewhere in the archives, but it's not the main entry.

Thanks for all the useful discussion. Hope this revision of the article is good.

-Logan

So... what? Is this entry off limits until the copyrights are re-evaluated? It looks good to me.. I think I'll recommend it and let the big kids sort it out.

One comment - while Logan76 mentions two instances where THX-1138 appears in later films, he says nothing at all about the most famous 'allusion' - the THX sound system which Lucasfilms developed.

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