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

I would like to have this article re-considered by peer review, please.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A612668

I have made the re-commended changes:
- changed title so it is a personal perspective
- changed language to GuideML
- although I was told that a first-person article cannot be edited, I have found another edited entry, as below, which is from a personal perspective. So how can it be wrong to write in the 1st person, if this one was approved?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A169652

An interesting entry - I too wish I'd read something like this before having mine removed.

As for whether the entry works as a personal persepective I'm still unsure - it reads well but wouldn't fit in with the vast majority of other entries. You could try and broaden it by adding the experiences of other researchers, and PR is a good place to get that sort of thing. I'd be happy to share my experiences with you if you decide to go down that road - I had a general anaesthetic (and an all round positive experience) which would provide a contrast to your perspective.

Oh, and I spotted one spelling error: in the second paragraph you have 'definately' which should be 'definitely'.

Aside from that I think it's a good choice for an entry - one of the more useful (in a practical sense) ones in the guide.

An interesting article, sounds like you had a bit of a bad experience there Kazzikins . I'm not going to comment on the validity of first person stuff in the edited guide because basically, I have no idea.

I do however, have some technical points for you, first they would probably have found it hard to inject into the hard palate in the bottom of your mouth because it's invariably in the top and while lots of drugs are probably a bad idea in general, you can take various types of painkillers simultaneously without too many problems because they work in different ways and are broken down differently so you can't overdose on combinations very easily. As long as you don't exceed the doses on the individual drugs there's not really a problem (as long as you remember that neurofen and neurofen plus are basically the same stuff and things like co-codamol contain coedine and paracetomol)

Hope that helps

Xuenyl

I think this is one of those subjects which could be a "Talking Point" rather than a single entry. I don't know how to go about suggesting it as such, but I'd suggest you have a poke about the pages linked to Peer Review to find out how.

Now onto some suggestions about the article itself. It's worth mentioning the difference between extractions from the top and bottom jaws. A while back I had a wisdom tooth extracted from the top jaw at 08:15 and was at my desk at work with half a mouthful of cotton wool at 08:30. No problem. Three years later I had one extracted from the bottom jaw (under local) and drove the mile or so home through a haze of pain so bad I have no idea how I even found my car, let alone started it. I spent the next two days lying in bed, drooling blood and barely able to move. Some problem. I'm told this is typical of the difference between top and bottom extractions, and it's pretty relevant - you don't want to go frightening people who are only having a top one removed. Good stuff though...


H.

Interesting H, I never realised the difference between top and bottom jaw. Obviously mine was bottom jaw! As to everything else, people have suggested, I will go away and have a think! Thanks!

Tstststs! There's another PR thread at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F48874?thread=134006 Rather than posting anew, you should pop up an existing thread. They don't *vanish*, you know, they just move over to some other of those red dots.

Editorial Note: This conversation has been moved from 'Peer Review' to 'Peer Review Sin Bin'. Hi folks, This thread has been moved to the Sin Bin as another PR thread exists for it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F48874?thread=134006.

Editorial Note: This conversation has been moved from 'Peer Review Sin Bin' to ' Wisdom Tooth Removal - A Personal Perspective'.

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