Talk:42

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I deleted the following:

42 is the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything, as discovered by Deep Thought.

See 42 (number). RickK | Talk 02:48, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Seems somebody put the Forty-Two thing back. I'll delete it. Veemonkamiya | Talk 18:56, 07 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Why do you delete this information? Was this a policy decision, or are you being arbitrary? Downstrike —Preceding comment was added at 01:26, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Never mind that question. I finally noticed that this page is for the 'Year 42'. It may help if we can emphasize that more. I'll see if I can do that, without being obnoxious about it.

Wikipedia seems to take a person to this page by default, rather than to the primary '42' page, or even a disambiguation page. That wasn't a good choice the term, 42. Downstrike —Preceding comment was added at 01:48, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I can see that Wikipedia isn't going to let me put bold or italic in: "This article is about the year 42. For other uses, see 42 (number)." I also now see that there is a comment at the top of the Edit page warning Hitchhikers that this isn't the page for that. Most of us will never see that, since the top of the page isn't where we would insert Hitchhiker-related information, if we're being reasonable. If we can't find a better solution, this page is going to continue receiving unusual amounts of inappropriate additions - including vandalism. Suggestions desired. Downstrike —Preceding comment was added at 02:04, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Is there a way to make the Edit page title, Editing Year 42, instead of Editing 42? Downstrike —Preceding comment was added at 02:41, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I've added a new otheruse template, to the disambig page rather than the number, as 42 refers to more other than just h2g2 now. Dingdongalistic