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

My name is Feisor and I am an ACE (Assistant Community Editor) here at h2g2. It's my job to welcome you to the site and hopefully show you around a little. I AM a real person, not an automated reply not an automated reply not an automated reply .

Welcome to h2g2 – not just the friendliest on-line community but an incredibly huge, living, breathing guide to Life, the Universe and Everything. It’s compiled by researchers just like you and it's something YOU can take part in. You can write entries on all manner of subjects, and if it's something you think would look good in our Edited Guide (where all the best research goes), you can submit it to Peer Review Take a look at the <./>writing-guidelines</.> for more information on that.

You have made a great start by opening your space I hope when you get to know us a little better you'll tell us a little about yourself, join in the general silliness and maybe even write for The Guide - but there's no rush - and it's not compulsory

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Feisor

I've got an article (An Approach to the 3n+1 and Related Problems) in Peer Review. I want to remove it from Peer Review, but I can't figure out how. Could you help me here? Thanks.

It looks to me like you have already worked it out - I can't see it in Peer Review and it's marked "Not for review".

As it says above, you're welcome

If you have any questions about hootoo (as we call h2g2) or need any help just drop me a line here and I'll get back to you asap

Have fun

I have an old ID (exit_zero) that I deactivated. I was new at the time and thought that this would delete any articles I had written under that ID. Obviously, I was wrong since the article is still out there. Would it be possible to re-activate the old ID so I could clean up properly? Thanks for any help you can give me.

The only way that you can delete any from that other account is if you can sign into it. Do you remember your sign in details?

Personally, I would just forget it ever happened - no one knows that it's you

I was doing a "Browse" on a subject and noticed these "Relevance" numbers for different articles. I was curious how these numbers are calculated. Are they based on how frequently the articles are visited?

To be honest I have no idea how the relevance numbers are calculated.

I don't think that the number of visits come into it.

Why not post your question at <./>AskH2G2</.> where you will reach a good cross section of the community - remember to indicate your question in the subject box

I'm sure that there is a out there who can help

Suppose I write a guide entry that contains something (in this case a mathematical proof) that I want documented as something I've done (to protect against plagarism). Is there any way to do this at h2g2? Normally, I'd go to a mathematics journal, but I've already partially spilled the beans here. For that matter, what's to prevent me from plagarizing someone else? I'm constantly modifying my guide entries and incorporating new material into them (I always give references to the literature). To say that I've done something on a specific date, it seems that I would have to quit modifying the guide entry on that date (and somehow document this). What do you recommend? My articles are too technical to be edited guide entries, so that rules that out.

Hi smallfrey,

Opening an Guide Entry might be the way for you to go, but please be aware that ALL threads are open for others to see, and it will probably show up in a g**gle search.

As you have no intention of turning your article into an Edited Guide Entry, then plagerism *usually* isn't something to worry about. Of course, should you copy and paste entire excerpts is entirely different and could be picked up and modded by anyone reading your work.

I hope this helps

lil x