Talk:Ford Prefect

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
Ford Prefect (car) → Ford Prefect — The car is the main subject here and anything else should be disambiguated. —Reginmund 04:23, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
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*There is no reason the "Ford Prefect should be disambiguated since the other term was named after the car. Reginmund 04:24, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Any additional comments:
*I expect this proposal to run into recentist objections, but I do think that it's stupid to have a disambig page for two entries. One or the other should become the main article. --Groggy Dice T | C 07:43, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
This article has been renamed  as the result of a move request. A hatlink suffices instead of a disambig. page. --Stemonitis 08:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*There is no reason the "Ford Prefect should be disambiguated since the other term was named after the car. Reginmund 04:24, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: :Any additional comments:
*I expect this proposal to run into recentist objections, but I do think that it's stupid to have a disambig page for two entries. One or the other should become the main article. --Groggy Dice T | C 07:43, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.</div>
This article has been renamed  as the result of a move request. A hatlink suffices instead of a disambig. page. --Stemonitis 08:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: In the 2005 film adaptation, the character is seen to be nearly run over by a real Ford Prefect automobile.  Adams himself noted that Americans totally missed this joke (as this vehicle was never sold in the US). - Can't be, Douglas Adams died in 2001, four years before the movie was released. What is meant by the sentence? --FordPrefect42 (talk) 22:53, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Adams did, however, approve the screenplay of the film prior to his death.  Whether this joke was in the version of the screenplay he saw or not, I couldn't say.  But this film was floating around in development for years before they actually started production. Lurlock (talk) 16:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistake 

message: I think I may have entered a link wrongly in an edit summary I just entered to the Ford Prefeect page.   But it's quite a useful site for some (of our) purposes.   I wonder if I can make it work better here...
http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk  
RegardsCharles01 (talk) 10:24, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dating UK registered cars