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

Entry: Goulburn - A16433804
Author: aussie_sunset - U6216851

could you review this for me? Goulburn is a town in NSW Australia. I hope it comes up to standard.

This is one of the most enjoyable reads I've had for a long time - many thanks for submitting it!

It needs a little bit of work in a few places to make it acceptable for the Edited Guide, but it'll be well worth it. The two main things are:

1. You need to remove all the first-person references ("some of us are thinking of recycling our pee", "most of us Aussies are descended from Poms", etc.)

2. Could you convert it to Guide-ML rather than plain text? Add tags around the headers, and tags around the paragraphs. The sub-editors will be eternally grateful if you do.

I'm really looking forward to seeing Goulburn in the Edited Guide!

Icy

Brilliant read! I agree with everything Icy said. If you need help with the GuideML, this is the place to ask, ok?

Wilma

Agreed, darn good read it was too nice writing style; easy to read and even me with my goldfish attention span managed to read it all

I think it just needs an introduction, telling us how big the town is and a general description of. Good job!

Don't remove the pee reference. Just change it to:

some of the residents are thinking of recycling their pee



You should put the name of the country in the title: Goulburn, Australia. Or you can be more specific: Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia or whatever it is.

You needn't bother struggling with GuideML if you don't want to, as the subeditor will be able to convert it in next to no time, so it's not a problem as it is.

i like it, i really enjoyed reading this.

"Goulburn has the nation's largest nastiest prison" ---> change 'nation's' to 'Australia's'

Thanks Icy... these might be a silly question, but how do I edit my "goulburn" post do i just view it, copy and paste into a new entry, edit it and send it back for peer review again?

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Aussie Sunset

Nice entry, mate

I've actually been to Goulburn, though that's about 11 years ago; some of our relations live out there. Somewhere I believe I have a picture of the concrete sheep - I definitely remember seeing it .

You should be able to go into the entry you have here and click the button marked "Edit Entry" - hope that helps .

There's also a link on your personal space - find the list of your guide entries, and there should be an "edit" link next to the one on Goulburn. Any problems, just shout!

Hi Aussie_sunset,

Are you still working on this?

ST.

We're all thinking of recycling our pee down here...

I like the entry and the guide really needs more on Australia.

I remember as a school group or something we went to Goulburn once and had to hang around some Goulburnite kids. We asked them how they liked Goulburn and they all said together "it's a hole!" LOL

You should say more on the Big Merino though!

Brill little Entry,

You don't mention it, but Goulburn to me was always the place to stop off when driving from Albury to Sydbey for a bit of a rest and something to eat. And I think many road users did the same, like lorry drivers etc, so it's actually a great place to hitchhike from too.

With some neat GuideML this looks like becoming a valuable addition to the EG. Nice job - do come back soon!

Hi there I notice that you like to work on several entries at once. There can be good and bad points to doing that as I well know.

The only thing I have so far come up with a part from those things already mentioned is that it could have been put through the writing forum before being put in PR.

Nevertheless this is good work

Still Working on it... I do a lot of writing so I just have to get around to it, I certainly want to get it up to standard for the guide, and incorpoate the suggestions.

Aussie sunset

'ello? Don't forget this...it's a valuable contribution in the making!

How's this coming along, aussie_sunset?

Yes, how's this coming along?

I don't suppose you've thought of finishing this...?

Aussie hasn't posted since the first week of November. Rather a pity. It was a fun entry.

hmm... so it's going on 3 months without a peep. drat - this really is good - it wouldn't take much more to finish.