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Another BBC link misses h2g2 and goes to Wiki!
Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Started conversation Jun 1, 2007
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/60sseason/documentaries/sgtpeppers.shtml
At the bottom there's a link to Sgt Peppers on Wiki, when there's a perfectly fine h2g2 entry here: A823420
I would send an email to the BBC site people but they've never responded to these things in the past.
Another BBC link misses h2g2 and goes to Wiki!
GreyDesk Posted Jun 1, 2007
Well e-mail the italics, and ask them to ask someone in the Radio section of the Beeb to change the link.
And whilst we're looking at this page. Did you notice the link to h2g2 that's listed under the 'links within the BBC' section? Bottom righthand-side.
Another BBC link misses h2g2 and goes to Wiki!
Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Jun 1, 2007
Yep, I noticed that, but it's a general '60s' link. The fact that they link to h2g2 there just makes the Wiki link seem even odder.
I've sent a comment to the Radio 2 site peeps.
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The H2G2 Editors Posted Jun 5, 2007
Hello all,
Many apologies for the delay here. We often get this sort of query - the BBC's remit means that we *have* to link to other sites, as expressed as long ago as 2004 in the Graf Report (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3866355.stm) which stated:
[The BBC's online services] must include more consistent and transparent links to all relevant commercial and public sources, and not only link to BBC pages.
We hope that helps explain why there will, necessarily, be links to other sites such as Wikipedia. However, we will continue to point potential links out to other sites, so please do continue to draw them to our attention. 
h2g2 Editors
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jun 5, 2007
Travellere in Time 
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U168592 Posted Jun 6, 2007
ahh, that explains it more! Why use wiki though, it's a heap of pants. Why not use MSN Encarta or even just Google?
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The H2G2 Editors Posted Jun 8, 2007
h2g2 Entry on puns currently being linked to from the BBC Homepage, Stephen Fry promo.
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Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Jul 7, 2007
Take a look at this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/liveearth/artists/spinaltap/
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U168592 Posted Jul 7, 2007
Snow Patrol gets a h2g2 link too 
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newtried Posted Jul 8, 2007
snow patrol h2g2 links !! Is this a 10 Kc anni type Robinson weaky link question? Im con fused now!!
Posted jan 14 1837
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Aug 15, 2007
My Entry on Tea in Britain: a Social History is currently on the BBC Homepage as a link to their tea promotion! 
lil xx 
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Aug 15, 2007
Got a link, Lil?
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Aug 15, 2007
It's gone, kea. They exchanged it this afternoon.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Aug 15, 2007
Bum.
Congrats anyway lil 
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Aug 15, 2007
Thanks Kea
I wouldn't have known about it, only for the Eds leaving me a message in my PS.. Bless 'em..
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Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Sep 5, 2007
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/consenting-adults.shtml
Down on the right hand side!
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Sep 5, 2007
It would be nice if there could have been two more h2g2 entries in the BBC links section to match the three Wikipedia articles in the external links section, but do we have entries on those subjects? Or other suitable entries to augment the BBC links section?
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Another BBC link misses h2g2 and goes to Wiki!
- 1: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Jun 1, 2007)
- 2: GreyDesk (Jun 1, 2007)
- 3: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Jun 1, 2007)
- 4: The H2G2 Editors (Jun 5, 2007)
- 5: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Jun 5, 2007)
- 6: U168592 (Jun 6, 2007)
- 7: The H2G2 Editors (Jun 8, 2007)
- 8: U168592 (Jun 8, 2007)
- 9: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Jul 7, 2007)
- 10: U168592 (Jul 7, 2007)
- 11: newtried (Jul 8, 2007)
- 12: lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned (Aug 15, 2007)
- 13: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Aug 15, 2007)
- 14: aka Bel - A87832164 (Aug 15, 2007)
- 15: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Aug 15, 2007)
- 16: lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned (Aug 15, 2007)
- 17: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Sep 5, 2007)
- 18: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Sep 5, 2007)
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