This template inserts references to the various The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy versions into Wikipedia articles. The links can be very long-winded, so this template makes them easy and consistent.

Compare:

[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases#Fit the Fourteenth|fit the fourteenth]] of the radio series

with:

{{H2G2|radio|14|link=yes}}

The template inserts text suitable for use in a list or sentence. This makes pages easy to edit — with shorter, much shorter sources. I tried doing Adams' quotes on Twitter on Towel Day, and he's not very 140 characters.

Articles that can benefit include:

So ...

 BRIANTIST  (talk) 18:45, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Usage

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Use of the template should include the link parameter. Specifying link=yes will transclude text which is linked, and link=no unlinked text. Apart from the linking, the text is identical. The default is to transclude unlinked text.

Examples

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{{H2G2|book|1|link=yes}} to {{H2G2|book|6|link=yes}} for the novels:

{{H2G2|radio|1|link=yes}} to {{H2G2|radio|26|link=yes}} for the radio episodes:

{{H2G2|phase|1|link=yes}} to {{H2G2|phase|5|link=yes}} for the radio phases:

{{H2G2|tv|1|link=yes}} to {{H2G2|tv|6|link=yes}} for the TV episodes:

{{H2G2|movie|1|link=yes}} for the film:

{{H2G2|game|1|link=yes}} and {{H2G2|game|2|link=yes}} for the computer games: