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

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I'm Serephina and I'm an A.C.E or Assistant Community Editor ,whose role includes greeting new researchers like yourself and helping you to settle into the community.

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and it can seem a little overwhelming at first but ,help is always at hand through the button on your toolbar

A great place to start exploring is hints and links for new researchers at A719840 .You may also like my links page at A1919937.

If you have any questions or just feel like a and a chat please don't hesitate to reply!.

Serephina.

Hi,
I've got some questions and things to say about his place and I wanted to bring them to someone of authority so... I'll give em' to you.
(really, this must sound so formal or dorky or stupid... I hope it's none of those but- then again, whatever).
I am suprised (sort of) that the content of the edited guide cannot be a bit goofy. When I found out about this i thought "DOUGLAS ADAMS INSPIRED INFORMATION SERVICE! BRILLIANT!" But now that I realize it is truly, horribly, serious, I'm dissapointed and I wonder whether or not he had guidelines for this project that people are now following. uhhh... maybe you know none of this. I don't know, I think I'm just jaded to the whole thing now because it seemed to me as an opportunity to almost expand the world of his novels, in a way. Well, that's all. I'm done ranting.
A friend.

Hi ..
Well I'm certainly not in any authority..but I can try and answer your questions. Firstly I'd say H2G2 or Hootoo as it tends be called by the researchers is anything but 'Truly ,horribly, serious'!,there are as many entries in the Edited Guide (there is also the new Under Guide for pieces that are great but cannot be in the Edited Guide for one eason or another)if not more that are as you put it 'a bit goofy' as there are on serious subjects.Have you read many?If you click<./>RANDOMEDITEDENTRY</.>it will take you to a random ,different entry every time.There are also many,many different groups, fan pages, etc ..try here for a small list of some A1919937.

As for guidelines left by Douglas Adams, I wasn't here at the time but he was a researcher himself at U42 of course..

Anyway, I hope this helps a little..if not I'm sure I can point you to someone who can help further

Hi sonimhta, I got here from the entry you put into the Alternative Writing Workshop.

You're not the first to feel that way about the Edited Guide Guidelines. There have been long discussions on this over the last three years. The result - the Edited Guide has got more encyclopedic as time's gone on but the UnderGuide was created, with official support, to cater for a different brand of entry.

As for Douglas Adams intentions, it's said that a factual useful updateable guide was intended. I don't know. Under the BBC we have what we have.

But, as Serephina said there's an enormous amount to h2g2 outside the Edited Guide. In unedited entries you can write what you like, within the houserules, and there are ways of 'publishing' these. The UnderGuide being one of them.

The Underguide HQ is at A1103329. The HQ page contains links to the discussions that led to its creation and links to other ways of publishing non EG pieces.

I hope the UnderGuide will build up to something more like what you expected to find here, although it caters for all non EG type writing, so it includes fiction and poetry etc. It only began last September but the archives, at C1233, are worth checking out. This one, A1117324, is a fact based favourite of mine.

Sorry to throw a load of links at you.
Waz (a Miner for the UnderGuide)

Waz