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

Entry: Max Payne Intervention - A770735
Author: Jimmy "The Fish" O'Conner - U194045

I know this has no chance of ever hitting the edited guide, but I figgured I'd share with you nice fellows. Enjoy... oh and if you don't know, Max Payne is a video game action hero.

Hi Jimmy!

"Alternative Guide: If you've written a great Guide Entry, but one which doesn't fit the editorial guidelines, why not check it into the Alternative Writing Workshop? And if you already spend a fair amount of time there, why not chat to the team at AGG/GAG and help to select and promote the very best non-Edited Guide Entries for the Alternative Galactic Guide?"

This suggestion comes from the Contribute page, which you get to when you click Contribute. It has a link to the The Alternative Writing Workshop.

Good luck!

Hi there!
I pretty much agree with Bels here. This might be AGG/GAG material, but - as you state yourself - nothing for the edited guide. Via AGG/GAG you might get it published in "The h2g2 Post" our newspaper (see front page).
However, as the Peer Review gudelines say "h2g2 is a guide to life on Earth, not a work of fiction. Feel free to write fiction, but please don't ask us to edit it."

Consequently, this clashes with your statement " ... I'm just trying to write good articles, based on what I think is good, not what the guide does. I will submit them all for editing, but I refuse to change a single word." (F89562?thread=185663)

Fully fictional articles like the Max Payne one will not make it into the edited gude, thus they should not be in Peer Review, strictly speaking.

Your entry on 'Huh' has, IMO, a chace to make it into the edited Guide. But for that it has to get through Peer Review first. You will find that refusing to change anything about an entry of yours will not help that process.

Please consider this so that you won't be offended when your articles do not gain official approval for the edited guide.

You could, for example, write an entry on Max Payne... That'd be factual and would make it into the guide.


Tube

I see your point, but that would be no fun to write. I have writen articles that I believe are guide worthy (See Faking an English Accent in Chatrooms) but decided after being given the run around for weeks that Im just gonna write what I feel like writing, and if it gets in the guide, great, if not, whatever. I'm not gonna waste alot of time changing what I think was better initially and have it not matter in the end. Besides, dosent the guide have a humor section anyway? Why does it limit itself to "factual" humor?

oops, typo. Meant to say Im only gonna write what I feel like writing, instead of that weird conglomerate sentance.

Fine
The guide is meant to be a fun place with informative bits (That's IMO, the BBC might think it an informative place with fun bits )

Now, if you want to write non-factual articles like this one, I suggest that you don't place them in Peer Review; as this is, as we all agree, not the place for purely fictional entries. PR is the place where you go when you think that you've finished an entry which followes the guidelines for edited entries and is fit for the review by your peers.

You should get used to the idea that unless you are a frequent contributor to the guide or a really, really gifted researcher you will have to put up with some comments and suggestions for improvement for your entry. Your piece will not make it into the guide if you ignore what people say in Peer Review. If it did there'd be no need for PR.

What I'm trying to say is that if you want to write what you write without the chance of changing "a single word" do not be surprised if it does not make the edited guide. It's not my job to pick things for the guide, but I've been around long enough to see how it works.

As you say yourself you should maybe get in contact with the semi-official humour side of the guide (AGG/GAG).



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Once again, I see your point and understand entirely. My refusal to change came about after I submitted my article on faking an english accent which recieved excelent accolades then sat around in peer review for eternity with people using this as an off topic chat forum. It never made it into the guide and never will despite many of there suggested changes that I implemented. This caused me to feel some bitterness to the system resulting in my current not caring. I am not going to waste weeks of my time just to work a peice which I believed to be excelent to begin with and, upon having it changed to the guides idea of good, have it ignored.

Hi Jimmy

I've posted a comment on your other entry in its Peer Review conversation. Just trying to help a bit...



Bels

thanks buddy