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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:

 fit the fourteenth of the radio series

with:



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:


 * List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters
 * Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * List of races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

So ...

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

Link parameter
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
  to    for the novels:



  to    for the radio episodes:



  to    for the radio phases:



  to    for the TV episodes:



  for the film:



  and    for the computer games: