Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cultural references (2nd nomination)
another #DIR|directory of loosely associated topics. Yes, the books are very popular and many people enjoyed reading them and including in-jokes and references to them. That does not mean that an ever-expanding list of every time someone includes the number 42 or a phrase from the book or any of the rest of it constitutes an encyclopedic examination of the cultural impact of the books. "In such-and-such movie so-and-so said dicky bird" doesn't tell us one thing about such-and-such movie, so-and-so or dicky bird. (By the way, I swiped "dicky bird" from a Star Trek novel; someone better go add that to an article about the cultural impact of Star Trek novels on cranky Wikipedia editors
— User:Otto4711, 04:41, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
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