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

Entry: Elvis Presley - A1092007
Author: Researcher 232647 - U232647

Well, I think that was quite good, don't you? Please tell me what you think of it. I'll be very pleased. As pleased as a pussycat. Not an angry pussycat, though, a happy one with a nice ball of wool, and...

Hello Nigel, and welcome to Peer Review.

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Scout

In addition to the Edited Guide, h2g2 has some other guides being built on it. This could make a good contribution to the spaced out guide, see U218740.

spelugx

Firstly, welcome to Researcher 232647. I think the entry is an interesting, well written and enthusiastic one, but I don't think this is really suitable for peer review, as peer review is meant for edited guide, which are supposed to be more factual, whereas this is more of an opinion piece.

This is more suitable for the Alternative Writing Workshop(AWW), which is meant not only for more opinionated entries, but also poetry, stories, and other things that don't fit the guidelines for the edited guide. The guidelines are here: A53209 and the alternative writing workshop is here: Writing-Alternative

Also, there is <./>thePost</.> which is something like a newspaper, that accepts opinion pieces, among other things. You could submit the entry to that if you wanted.

Finally, I think it would be good for you to change your nickname from Researcher 232647 to something more personal. To do that, you click on the preferences button, then change your name in the box, and click submit details.