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

Entry: The Village of Poling in West Sussex - A4087118
Author: superjimlad - U1486306

Had another what do people think remember this is still my first one so be kind lol
James

This is pretty good. It summarises well how little there is in Poling! Well done.

There are a lot of small spelling mistakes; you use "to" instead of "two" - that sort of thing. In some places these are so bad that I can't make out what you are trying to say:

"The other far more sensible option of driving there along to only road that can get you to Poling can be further cut do into either Hitching a ride or investing in a motorised vehicle."

I could point them all out to you, but it would be better if you would learn to spot this sort of problem yourself. The way to do this is to read what you have written carefully, if possible out loud. Pause at a comma and stop at a full stop, but don't stop otherwise. This will help you to spot where you have left out punctuation or made sentences too long.

I will point out all the spelling mistakes etc. if you want. I won't mind.

If you are interested in getting this into the Edited Guide, there are a few little things that will have to be changed. One is that you are not supposed to mention yourself. That's easily fixed.

Well done again, for writing this.

Yep - I'll second what Gnomon said. This is starting to look good

Another thing you might want to consider is putting it into GuideML. If you don't want to, the Sub-Editor will do it, but it might give you an easier ride through Peer Review if you do it yourself!

First, you need to go to the Edit Entry page, select GuideML and click the 'Change Style' button.

Then, you need to put a at the beginning of each paragraph, and a at the end, like so:

Poling is a small quite village, which has few facilities to speak of, apart form a historical Norman church, a phone box and 2 post boxes. However the hub of this industrious village is the farms that surround it, however it is not just your average farms found there, no there are cattle farms and there is also a mushroom factory.

For the headings, you can use tags:

How to get to Poling

If you decide to go ahead, give us a shout if you need a hand

Fantastic stuff! I really enjoyed reading this, it's the kind of writing that the Guide is on the look out for I think. There's actually a h2g2 Society that deals with Geographical places that could give you some other hints about how to make your writing about places even better, it's the h2g2 Royal Geographical Society which can be found here A1286886

With a little work this could be in the Edited Guide no problems! If that's what you want to try for.

You mention on your Personal Space that your spelling isn't too crash hot. That's no problem, neither is mine, I have dyslexia!

I can offer some suggestions to make it read a little better though; here goes.

You mention a Children's Hospice, it should have capital letters I think, as they're really quite important. (I'm a children's , so biased!)

2nd world war should be written like this Second World War.

You use numerals instead of words sometimes like 2 for to.

Unfortunately when you mention the road the A27 it makes a hypoerlink because all h2g2 entries are given an "A" number, so you've made links to the Entry A27 throughout your work! Not a problem, just put a space in! A 27. See? Easy

So now you know you can link to other h2g2 Entries, that's something to think about too...

Other than those minor things, it's great, really great! Hope someone recommends it for the Edited Guide (it'll have to go through Peer Review first, but if you take on baord all the suggestions made it'll fly through.)

GuideML can be pretty hard to master, have a play around with it on your Personal Space, or if you're unsure just say when you put it into Peer Review that you are unfamilair with GuideMl and would like a Sub Editor to deal with it! The Sub Editors are a fairly nice bunch

Hope to read more of your work soon
Frood

Hello

My goodness you guys are so helpful thank you i apologise for the spelling i will work harder at it thank you. I will be in touch with the re done version.

Thank you again, you guys are agreat help

James

need any help with spelling or proofreading i will help. theres a spelling help group i'm part of as well.... can't remember where the page is!

The volunteer spell-checkers are to be found at A1022897

It would be great to get this into the Edited Guide! Do you think you'll do any more on it superjimlad?

Author has elvised - flea market?

Seconded.

Hello i appoligise for my absence and for beign so rude as to forget about H2G2 after al the help i was given i have returned with the aim of finishing what i started and getting my entry about Poling done. I am wondering where i go to get the ebtry out of the flea market so i can work on it and resubmit it?
Yours Greatfully James

Welcome back!

Just go to Flea Market - <./>FleaMarket</.>, and you'll see your entry in the list (you may have to go in more than one page). You'll see an x on the right hand side next to it, click that, and you'll have removed your entry.

I have tried this but it says that i dont have the athority to remove it
I have done some more work on it and once it is out of the flea market do you think i should put it into peer review?

That must be a bug or something.

Post to the Paully's space A705659 and ask him to remove it for you. Yes, it was considered to be suitable for Peer Review the first time, so there's no reason you can't submit it again.

thanks

Thank you all for you help i am sooo chuffed that its in , thanks again jim

I spotted this on the front page the other day - nice work, Jim!