Talk:List of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters

message: I personally don't feel the screenshot of 'Fenchurch' is appropriate for her character description, considering that it's from the television series, which was created long before the book 'So Long And Thanks for All the Fish', which is where Fenchurch is properly introduced. In the television series, that character was simply 'the girl with the great idea' who gets vaporized shortly afterwards; I seriously doubt much thought went into her casting. If no one highly disagrees with me, I'm going to remove it. Besides, I'm not so sure we can legally use it anyway. 64.122.56.143 (talk) 03:47, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Fenchurch' picture 

message: The article indicates that Agrajag's "final death" occurs in Mostly Harmless.  This is not correct; Agragaj's actual final death is in Life, The Universe and Everything in his Cathedral of Hate.  Remember Agrajag's horror at discovering that Arthur "(hadn't) been to Stavromula (sic - Stavro Müller) Beta yet" from his perspective at that time.  From Agrajag's perspective, his death at the Stavro club was in his past. 71.245.0.117 23:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agrajag's "final death"? 

message: Are they not different spellings of the same characters? Should their sections be merged with a note saying, here it's spelt this way and here it's that way? --20.2.185.8 17:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, Lunkwill and Fook are the two programmers who ask Deep Thought the Question. Loonquawl and Phouchg recieve the Answer millions of years later. On the other hand, the similarity of names clearly isn't a coincidence, and I think I'm right in saying that on TV they were played by the same actors, so there probably should be some mention of this. Daibhid C (talk) 10:52, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loonquawl, Phouchg, Lunkwill & Fook? 

message: "absolute kneebiter"?? Although it's funnier (IMO) I must point out that my copy -- "Pan original", 1982, printed in Canada, page 8 -- has "total asshole" 142.177.15.49 20:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: There's two different versions of LtUaE, one with fictional swear-words and one with real ones. The difference is rather more obvious in the later scene involving the film-maker who won an award for the most gratuitous use of the word "----". --Paul A 05:41, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Absolute Kneebiters 

message: Is there a page of science fiction expletives? It seems there's no programme that wants to broadcast swear words, so substitutes things like frell (Farscape), zark (HHGG) and smeg (Red Dwarf). thefamouseccles 	 
:That's a great idea, smeghead! You should create it! - Tεxτurε 00:50, 24 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It already exists at List of fictional curse words. LuckyWizard 06:26, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It was moved to List of fictional expletives and was deleted on February 3, 2007. DQweny (talk) 22:05, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  SF Expletives 

message: I'm still discomfortable with bugblatter beasts and hooloovoos appearing on this list... They don't fit the current title. How about creating a new article, Races from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? --ZeroOne 22:20, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one cares I went ahead and created the article. Feel free to add all other races from the HHGG. --ZeroOne 23:25, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  A new list: Alien races from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? 

message: :It is interesting to note that in the third radio series, when brief clips of Jeltz' voice are played, the clips are from TV and not the earlier radio stories. 	 
This is wrong. In the third radio series, Jeltz says, "This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Intergalactic Hyperspace Planning Council. Your planet is scheduled for demolition." This is not exactly what Jeltz says in the TV show, nor could you arrive at the same sound clip by omitting words (you could get the same wording but it wouldn't have the same stress, pitch, timing, etc. of each syllable). It may, however, be the same voice actor, but the voice is uncredited, both in the radio episode and on the BBC website. Anybody know who it is or where the clips may be from? - Furrykef 21:47, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's Toby Longworth. All reprises were recorded new (for that lovely 5.1 surround effect). Bill Wallis (original Prosser/Jeltz voice) was unavailable, so Dirk Maggs recast. Toby isn't given a credit for Jeltz until 2005's series #4. All the details are spelled out in the second radio scripts volume. --JohnDBuell | Talk 16:56, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jeltz in the third series 

message: it's stated that it's meant to be rude, but me as a non English native speaker can't figure out what exactly is supposed to be rude about it ... slarty but fast? what's slarty? (clem 22:35, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's more subtle than that - it just sounds vaguely like it "ought to be" rude. The most obvious reference is to the mildly impolite "fart", but the quoted origin as "Phartiphukborlz" also includes the far worse "fuck" and "balls". "Slartibartfast" itself, though, is of necessity meaningless, due to the general prudishness of the BBC and its listeners; it's just meant to produce childish giggles from anyone trying to take him seriously. - IMSoP 15:39, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  what does Slartibartfast mean? 

message: Does anyone else think A) characters from the computer game should be on this list, and B) it should be noted of characters on this list if they appeared in the game? Stev0 07:23, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps the latter, but I'm having a hard time thinking of examples of newly created characters just for the game (except maybe Marvin's door). --JohnDBuell 07:36, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Computer Game 

message: Missing characters we ought to [write] sections about are: 
	 
*Arthur's boss
*Elvis Presley
*Gail Andrews
*Murray Bost Henson
*Mrs Kapelsen
*The Lajestic Vantrasheel of Lob
*Thor
*God
	 
Where does God fit in here? Except for possibly the running Oolon Colluphid jokes? There's already a section for the cat called "The Lord." Also, I'm not sure about paragraphs for Arthur's BBC Boss (except that he was played by the second Hitchhiker radio producer, Geoffrey Perkins), or the Lajestic Vantrasheel of Lob, these seem to be VERY minor characters to me. --JohnDBuell | Talk 17:03, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: God makes a personal appearance for His apology message at the end of the fourth book and is referenced quite a few times. Briantist 10:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  TODO 

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message: Stev0 removed my addition of 	 
:Such a signature was indeed found in a real life glacier in Norway. Writer Øyvind Myhre was suspected for making it. 	 
My source for the claim is the Sidan 42 the newsletter of the Swedish HHGTTG society. It's not available online. I haven't found any online source, but I guess it was reported much in Norwegian fandom, but it was a bit pre-internet. I haven't manage to find much. // Liftarn 	 
::I did do a rather thorough Google search before deleting it. Since it still has no verification, I'd keep it out. At most, maybe you can add "Somebody, as a prank, actually put a large sign that said 'Slartibartfast was here' on a glacier." Stev0 16:27, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slartibartfast's signature 

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message: There's mention of the green UFOs when hitch-hiking is explained, and UFOs that play pranks on humans.  Do these have any relation to the green smiley face on the cover?
:No, he's the invention of Peter Cross, the artist who did the original covers of the first five Hitchhiker's books in the USA. The 'face' also appears on the US edition of the Radio Scripts book, and the VHS/DVD releases of the TV series. --JohnDBuell 03:12, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also it should be noted that Douglas Adams HATED it.  Stev0 07:31, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  UFOs 

message: Perhaps the Earth had been able to calculate the Ultimate Question after all (or whatever skewed perception of it it could have), and Fenchurch's sudden realisation of it was its output; the way that everyone would come to know about it.
A caveat to this theory, however, are that Fenchurch is a Golgafrinchan descendent, and is therefore not part of the Earth's calculation program. However, she still might have been able to recieve the calculation since Arthur may have also calculated something at least resembling the Ultimate Question in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" with the Scrabble tiles, possibly implying that the Golgafrinchans may had become integrated into the program in some way after living on the earth since prehistoric times. Other theories could be made, such as they could have cross-bred with the humans before they died out, causing some scraps of the program to be in the offspring. The humans and Golgafrinchans may be too biologically dissimilar for this, but given most of the absurd logic in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, anything could be possible.
:Every bit of this is Original Research, and should not be included. Sorry. --JohnDBuell 01:53, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, I forgot about the concept of Original Research. That was quite silly of me. I guess a discussion like this is meant to be in a public forum rather than a public information resource. Thanks for correcting me. --UberMan5000 05:04, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fenchurch and the Ultimate Question 

message: Should the Amoeboid Zingatularians entry be moved to Races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?  There aren't any actual Amoeboid Zingatularian characters in the story.  P Ingerson (talk) 19:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes please. I would have done it myself but I've been quite busy at work. --JohnDBuell 22:57, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amoeboid Zingatularians 

message: I believe he should have his own article. He is a rather important character.--Atomic-Suit-n-tieWhat Have I Done?!  21:52, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When the article was merged into this list, there were only four paragraphs, and no photos (and I note that there is still no photo of Richard Vernon). It would be entirely feasible to fork his section back out, but please make notes of everything that links here for Slartibartfast, and move it back to the proper page if it does get forked. Also, if we fork Slarti back off, why not kick the Vogons back out of the "Races and Species" page? Anyone else agree with putting Slartibartfast back on his own page? --JohnDBuell 22:23, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I have this--Atomic-Suit-n-tieWhat Have I Done?!  22:31, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slartibartfast 

message: Given that the Bowl of Petunias Agrajag's only thought was "Oh no not again," it seems likely that the whale was also Agrajag. Not so?
:No, the whale has its own, independent thoughts as it falls to Magrathea. Further, there's no indication in the Cathedral of Hate that the whale was another incarnation of Agrajag. --JohnDBuell 23:33, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Oh no, not again" was probably referring to all his previous deaths at Arthur's hands.   Noclevername 21:02, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but "It's the petunias that thought that." The whale has a monologue, essentially. --JohnDBuell 22:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In actual fact, "Oh no, not again" is a four-word summary of the philosophy of Buddism, another crafty atheist view of a religion. Briantist 10:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

text: The whale is Agrajag: he calls it "my spirit brother". Robin Johnson (talk) 16:34, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can call anyone my spirit brother. That's not the same thing as being one and the same being. Nowhere is that implied in the text - there are two missiles: one becomes a sperm whale, the other becomes a bowl of petunias, and later that joke is expanded to become one of the incarnations of Agrajag. --JohnDBuell 16:55, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agrajag is the petunias and the whale (both expansions of the joke). His account of the petunias story ends with: "In, I might add, the fresh wreckage of a whale. My spirit brother." What else does that mean, in this context? Robin Johnson (talk) 16:59, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They're twins, of a sort, created at the same time in the same space, by the Infinite Improbability Drive. I'd be certain that if Adams had MEANT them to be two aspects of the same being, he would have very clearly written as much. --JohnDBuell 17:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that he did clearly write as much when he wrote "My spirit brother". It's the punchline of the story. (It might be worth listening to this episode of radio series 3, in which Adams voices Agrajag. If there is some extra anger or emphasis on these words, that makes them more of a punchline, which would leave me all the more convinced. I'm not sure where my CD is though...) Robin Johnson (talk) 17:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I have a copy of the same series. And I still disagree. The joke was in finally giving a second explanation of "Oh no, not again," which wasn't present when the first radio series was written, not in saying that the whale AND the petunias were the same being. --JohnDBuell 17:23, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The explanation of "oh no, not again" is one joke, and the "I might add" addition of the fact that the whale was also an Agrajag is another, a sort of piled-up punchline. I see it's not as absolutely clear as I'd thought, so maybe not article matieral. A google search (on groups as well as the web) shows that this argument has come up a few times before, but not apparently anywhere that would be worth referencing. Robin Johnson (talk) 17:28, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to say that my understanding is that the Whale and the Bowl of Petunias are two parallel views of a very short existance.  The Whale gets all metaphysical in his fall from the sky, whereas the Bowl of Petunias has a Buddist view of the world ("oh no not again!").  I have to say that I almost cried when I first read the Agrajag's section in the third book, as it's such a shocking suprise, IMHO.   The fact that Agrajag had reincarnated so many times continued the Buddist theme, especially the reference to coming to life as a fly and being squatted as a common view of "extreme" Buddists is that they wear masks so they don't have to squat flies. Briantist 17:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, the list of things that Agrajag has been incarnated as are listed, a cow  .. a fish .. a rabbit, a fly, a wishbone, a flea ... stamping on ants and "I was at a cricket match! I had a weak heart condition".  and " at Stavromula Beta and someone tried to assassinate you " which DOES NOT INCLUDE A WHALE... Briantist 17:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no reason to believe that that all his incarnations would be explicitly mentioned, though. I accept that there is not consensus to put this in the article. But I'm sure I'm right. Robin Johnson (talk) 20:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's an interesting idea, but I'm not convinced. I can accept that time-travel has all sorts of wacky effects on reincarnation (Agrajag's last life occuring "before" Arthur kills him at Mueller's), but I have a hard time imagining the same spirit being incarnated in two bodies simultaneously. Also, doesn't Agrajag say he'd decided not to reincarnate, but the Infinite Improbability Drive pulls him back to be the bowl of petunias? He's particularly angry about this, so if it also pulled him back to be the whale, you'd think he'd mention it more explicitly (and at no point does he refer to any other incarnation as a "spirit brother", they're all "I"). And by this point he's got a good idea of what's going on (hence thinking "Oh no, not again!") whereas the whale has no idea about anything (last thought "I wonder if it (the ground) will be friends with me?") I just can't make it fit. Daibhid C (talk) 11:02, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  this is, officially. the best. talk page topic. ever. :-) totally awesome. good to be here. thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 20:05, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Whale!= Agrajag 

message: I'm not a reviewer, but are you certain that lists can be Good Article candidates?
And someone should probably write up some fair use rationale for the images used. --Lenin and McCarthy  |  (Complain here) 22:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the GA nomination 

message: This article failed good article nomination. This is how the article, as of February 12, 2007, compares against the  six good article criteria:
:1. Well written?: No.  It's comprehensible and organized, lead is ok, but it violates both the Jargon guidelines and How to write about Fiction guidelines.
:2. Factually accurate?: Unsure; it's not easily comprehensible to someone not very familiar with the books, and inline citations (preferably) on all radio voicings, all television voicings, all movie portrayals.
:3. Broad in coverage?: There's a lot of trivia and info about the book that is unnecessary.  Some character listed are too minor even for this list.  Reevaluate all the characters in this list; a good number are wasting the Megabytes. There's also a good bit of Original Research in places, particularly in the section on the triple breasted woman.
:4. Neutral point of view?: For the most part.  However, it's very much written in an in universe perspective, and that needs to be changed.
:5. Article stability? Yes.  I see no stability problems.
:6. Images?: Images are in good places, and are properly tagged.
When these issues are addressed, the article can be resubmitted for consideration.  Thanks for your work so far. 
-- DoomsDay349 23:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Failed "good article" nomination 

message: "Colluphid is not based on Adams's friend, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer Richard Dawkins, known for his assertive atheist and antitheist writings, despite the contrary belief[citation needed] held by some fans of either author. Adams stated in an interview with American Atheists that he had not read any of Dawkins's books until his 'early thirties' (after 1982), four years after the character was created.[6]"
BELIEF? help by fans of either author?  Isn't the whole point of being an Athiest you don't go around believing things, certainly without evidence?  BRIANTIST  (talk) 08:29, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, someone went and edited the text to assert the false claim that Colluphid IS based on Dawkins. THAT's the "contrary belief." Probably just need to cite something in Google groups, or an old afda FAQ. --JohnDBuell 12:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be better to leave it out all together - the character is based on Erich von Däniken anyway, there is no confusion  BRIANTIST  (talk) 18:27, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I know I'm re-opening an old debate, but just to set the record straight: the whole point of being an Athiest is that you don't go around believing in any God or Gods.  You can go around believing other things without evidence if you like, just not in any Gods.  P Ingerson (talk) 16:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oolon Colluphid 

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message: Wasn't Eddie's personality changed by Zaphod's discovery of a back-up personality? Mad.martian999 13:54, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eddie 

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message: There is an extant but extremely obscure recording that purports to be of Disaster Area's music, released on the B-side of the early 80's single (I think it was BBC Records) of the H2G2 theme music.  I bought the record back in the day when I was around 10 years old, and still own it.  I no longer own a record player, however, and so am not in a position to convert the thing from analogue to digital.  But although I haven't listened to the song in years, I still remember it - a quite catchy, nasally-sung fast-paced sort of pop-metal number with a lot of massed guitars, an extended moody coda with many synth pings and almost entirely indecipherable lyrics, called 'Only The End Of The World Again'.  I will bet money that this song title was the source of the celebrated Neil Gaiman story of the same name, given that Gaiman literally wrote a book about H2G2.  
Insofar as I can remember the lyrics, they went like this (I haven't listened to the record in well over 15 years, and I've forgotten the entire first verse):
(Forgotten the first line of verse 2 which I could never make out anyway) / 
Your daddy wasn't (indecipherable), I love you so / 
You make me want to scream and shout / 
You never let me get too close / 
(Bridge)
(Another line I could never make out) / 
But all I ever got was teenage lies / 
Lover, don't panic / 
Baby, don't panic / 
I'll take you down the road where the moon explodes /
(Chorus)
It's only the end of the world again /
Only the end of the world again / 
Only the end of the world again / 
Again, again /
Again, again /
(There was another verse.   At least one.) 
Like I say, I still own the record so if anyone in the Dublin, Ireland area has vinyl restoration facilities and analogue-to-digital conversion software, the full lyrics could perhaps be transcribed and Disaster Area's recorded legacy could be given back to the world.  In the meantime, I will scan the record label to prove that I'm not just making all this up. Lexo (talk) 00:20, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Even though this vinyl disk has been unavailable for decades, if somebody should put a copy of it up on a website somewhere then this would be in breach of copyright. HairyWombat (talk) 00:28, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It would indeed be in breach of copyright and I would certainly not endorse any such attempt to make such a recording available. However, I have managed to transfer the original into digital form and a full transcription of the lyrics will shortly be available. Lexo (talk) 22:33, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disaster Area recording 

message: Not entirely sure about this, but aren't Number One and the management consultant the same character in the radio series? They're played by the same actor, with (as far as I remember) the same voice, and when the Captain is describing the sort of people in the B-ark's hold, we get the following interjections from Number Two and Number One:
:ARTHUR:
:You really mean you’ve got a hold full of frozen hairdressers?
:CAPTAIN:
:Oh yes. Millions of them! Hairdressers, tired T.V. producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers…
:NUMBER TWO:
:Security guards…
:NUMBER ONE:
:Management consultants… 
I always took it that One and Two were referring to their previous occupations. Brunton (talk) 09:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golgafrinchans 

message: The section on eccentrica claims that the large legs seen arguing with ford on viltvodle VI is eccentrica gallumbits.  However, there is no reference to whom the legs belong to at all, ford's dialogue is:
:ford: of course not... that... that's ridiculous.  I... I've been stranded on a... a strange planet for a number of years, I haven't been avoiding you.  You look great, you're doing well... you've grown... obviously...
and then later
:ford: thank you darling, i'll be in touch
and that's the last we see of those legs.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.37.190 (talk) 23:34, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm removing this from the article. This is purely original research. --Bando26 (talk) 04:10, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eccentrica Gallumbits does not appear in the movie 

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message: This section appears to have been vandalised, with comments on that vandalistion also appearing in bold. It's simple-minded "War on Terror" nonsense.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.3.227.107 (talk) 14:15, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shooty and Bang Bang Vandalisation 

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Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(fiction)#Final_adoption_as_a_guideline. Ikip (talk) 11:18, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for comment on articles for individual television episodes and characters 

message: How can the Dish of the Day, supposedly a cow, be a "he"?  I ask merely for information. - Denimadept (talk) 21:03, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In  it is an 'it', but in  he is an 'he'. As the former is earlier, I will change the article to match this. By the way it is not a cow, as such, but a Ameglian Major Cow. Being an alien creature, this could be any sex including ones with which we are unfamiliar. HairyWombat (talk) 00:41, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dish of the Day 

message: I have actually met a telephone sanitizer. In the late 1970s I worked for a large British engineering company called Molins Ltd. The Deptford site where I worked had about 1000 employees. Periodically, a woman would come to my office and sanitize my telephones. She was a contractor; she did nothing else except go around companies sanitizing their telephones. In view of this I question whether the section on the Telephone Sanitizer should concentrate so much on early 1920s toilet and bathroom cleaners. Telephone Sanitizer is a real job. HairyWombat (talk) 20:48, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would think that toilet and bathroom cleaners -- or indeed anyone employed as a cleaner -- would have been on the hypothetical "C" ark, under the category of those who "do the actual work."  They are definitely not part of the "useless middle third" of society.  Of course, as the other two-thirds of the Golgafrinchans eventually learned (as they were expiring), the telephone sanitizers probably should have been put in category "C" as well.  Neutron (talk) 18:43, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "the telephone sanitizers probably should have been put in category "C" as well" -I thought the implication is that disinfecting the telephones is what bred the virilent disease. 192.232.130.71 (talk) 05:59, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golgafrinchan Telephone Sanitizer 

message: I took out the sentence that says Number Two "had probably been employed as a security guard on Golgafrincham."  Not only is it unsourced and apparently pure speculation, but it seems unlikely in light of Number Two's mention of what his "commanding officer" had told him about the impending fate of their planet.  From the context, he is clearly talking about his former commanding officer back on Golgafrincham, not the captain of the "B" ark.  Security guards generally don't have "commanding officers" to my knowledge.  Military personnel and police officers generally do, so it is more likely that he was one of those.  (My assumption has always been that he was a lower-level military officer, possibly in a non-combat role that Adams judged to be in the "useless middle third", while his commanding officer (who obviously was not going on the "B" ark) might have been considered one of the "great leaders" and therefore assigned to the non-existent "A" ark.  But such speculation does not belong in the article.)  Neutron (talk) 19:10, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golgafrinchan "Number Two" 

message: The article currently refers to the "Googleplex Star Thinker", but I think it should be "Googolplex Star Thinker". Have I spotted a mistake, or is this right?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.171.29 (talk) 01:48, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The original book, published in 1979, uses Googleplex (chapter 25 (p127 in the first edition)). The search engine (which started as "Back-Rub" in 1996) changed its name to Google in 1997. Arjayay (talk) 15:05, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Googolplex vs Googleplex 

message: This was played by Arthur Smith. I thought this might be Arthur Smith (comedian), so I e-mailed him in April 2010. Arthur replied, "No I'm pretty sure it wasn't me - though I have been a barman or two ioj my time arthur". There don't seem to be any other likely contenders on the disambiguation page, so the name should remain unlinked. HairyWombat (talk) 22:17, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barman in Old Pink Dog Bar 

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thread_title:  Template <nowiki>{{H2G2}}</nowiki> up for deletion 

message: This section title, which was as above, is so long it distorts the whole of the contents panel.
On my normal settings I am left with about 20 characters to the left of the contents box so Agrajag runs the whole length of the contents box and then jumps to full width beneath.  I do not recall the character ever being called the double title, including the AKA, but originally appeared as Paul.... before becoming Paula... 
I have, therefore, been WP:BOLD and shortened the section title to just:-
Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, Essex
I have, however, put Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex in bold in the first paragraph. I get the feeling this page has several Owners in which case they can revert and follow the  Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycleArjayay (talk) 13:33, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, Essex AKA Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex 

message: I see no proof that "The Deep Thought episode appears to be a parody of a short story by Frederic Brown, Answer." and the citation is to a blog that doesn't support that claim. It's an opinion. (And doesn't every one have a opinion on which science fiction super computer Deep Thought was modeled after making it all the more likely he modeled it after the idea of a science fiction super computer rather than any particular one?) Anyways, I think it would be appropriate if someone with better Wiki editing skills than me would remove that line.
Hklbry (talk) 06:01, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deep Thought - Bad Citation 

message: Why are the episode titles referred to as "fit the first" (and so on) in lowercase throughout this article?  They are consistently capitalised as "Fit the First" (and so on) at The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases.  Although "fit" is used as a synonym for "episode", these are effectively the titles of each episode and should be capitalised as such (per MOS:CT).  —sroc 💬 09:00, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Fit the…" 

message: Please take care when changing headings, e.g.:
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Doing this destroys anchor links that point to the headings, so a link to List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters#Mr. Prosser would no longer jump down to the right section of the page.  Similarly, Lord,_The, which redirects to List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters#Lord.2C_The, would not work correctly.
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This ensures that the old anchor link will continue to work.  I've added in the ones noted above, but there might be others lurking in there.  —sroc 💬 12:29, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add anchors when renaming headings 

message: The Guide Mark II section links to Unfiltered perception, but that just redirects to Mostly Harmless. Why? Unless there's a solid reason, I propose we just remove that link. Meonkeys (talk) 04:28, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unfiltered perception 

message: My view is that Coiffer's book was presumptious and bad. Hence I believe that including mentions of it in this article is undesirable and even icky. Might we at the least somehow corden off his material? 2A03:B000:A00:0:0:0:0:170 (talk) 17:56, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complaint about inclusion of Coiffer material 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Like other characters (Halfrunt = halbrund | Beeblebrocks = Bibelbrocken) these may have just a german root: Fug und Langweil. Especially regarding the 'antgagonist' Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, which is just Polish for 'ordinary Jelcz car'. Jelcz-Laskowice is a typical silesian community with a typical mixed history. Now a steering wheel is in the coat of arms of this miúnicipality founded in the 13th century. There will be much to detect. Does anybody know if Adams had German sources (like a Grimm or a Muret-Sanders) at hand? Just to send an impulse… Horst Emscher (talk) 07:29, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phouchg and Loonquawl 

message: Even a quick scan shows this article to be rather crufty. I love HG2G as much as anybody, and I'm sure that the folks who wrote the article love it too. Nonetheless, a lot of what I saw looks very crufty...very in-universe...with a lot of tongue-in-cheek references that non-fans won't likely understand.PurpleChez (talk) 20:02, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Entirely agree! Will WP:PROD. Bondegezou (talk) 17:14, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fancruft 

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message: I fairly certain in one of the books Wowbanger mentions what Arthurs name is Arthur Philip Dent so should that be put into his part
I'm partially asking as i feel a tad nervous about doing edits  StayedBoot7207 (talk) 08:17, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arthur's full name?