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I disagree. Look up the definition of excessive and you will notice it's not excessive. The article only uses a mere two paragraphs, short ones too, compared to approx. 300 pages of text the novel has. It's less than 0,1% of the copyrighted work and thus I don't think excessive is the right word for it, I'd rather say it's exactly what WP:FAIR#Text specifies... --SoWhyTalk11:57, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
As already noticed, it's an extremely small quote in the context of the HHGTTG. I also like to look at the series as a whole, which makes the quote less than 1/800 of the whole works.
I immediately noticed something was funny about the Clyde quote. Browsing the history I found that a troll by the name Dr. Richard Squires has added an extension to the last sentence of the quote. See the difference here. That extension was not written by Clyde.
I also deleted the addition "seminal" that someone added to "Adams' work" since I find this to be a negative attribute - even though it may just as well be interpreted as a positive one - cause I got the idea that Wikipedia wants to stay neutral, non-reflecting and without putting value and opinion into the articles; I believe these features to come with the idea of wanting to be encyclopedic.
What do you find negative in "which are highly original and influential; more loosely: important, central to the development or understanding of a subject." which is the meaning of seminal when referring to books and other works.MidlandLinda (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:52, 25 May 2010 (UTC).[reply]
I found this entire headline to be excessive since those article really have no relation to Towel Day at all, except that the Nerd Pride and Jedi days occur on the same day. I believe you can appreciate the works of DNA and even celebrate Towel Day without being a nerd to the extent of feeling related to those celebrating Nerd Pride Day. I also believe one can be into DNA's works in particular and even sci-fi in general, without being at all remotely interested in Star Wars. Furthermore, Pi Day and Lilac Day seems to have no connection to Towel Day at all outside the frame of the three being more or less "nerdy".
To Douglas Adams
As a tribute to your brilliance in radio, movie, and books,
I carry a towel with me today, even though I get strange looks.
Though you're not on Earth with us anymore, in the hearts of your fans, you'll always exist.
So Doug, if you are reading this, please know that you are missed.
RIP
Note: If this not an appropriate place for this, feel free to remove it.Stormcloud22 (talk) 01:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I am aware of the above conversation about whether the quote is too long to be fair use in terms of copyright, but IMHO it is incomplete. The section quoted starts with "Partly..." and then stops, without completing the thought which continues:
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
I think perhaps this should be added at the end, but I am worried about the copyright discussion being brought up again. Crito2161 (talk) 15:26, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Apparently, somebody from this IP Address has been vandalizing the Towel Day page.
I've been trying to teach the kids, and get other staff to teach the kids, about responsible internet usage. We are a school, though. It's an uphill battle with some of the little %#$#@$&s.
In the article it mentions something about a site called Slashdot and you can click on that word. It doesn't actually take you to that site, it takes you to a Wikipedia article about that site. It should really link to the site itself. I would've changed that, but I didn't know how. Somebody should really revise all the links here to make sure they don't do that. Owen214 (talk) 07:45, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No, it shouldn't. All links within text of an article should be to other articles on Wikipedia. Links to other sites are reserved for the "External links" section. Mindmatrix13:54, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This article fails to say why it is celebrated on this particular day, other than the fact that the first one was proposed 2 weeks after DNA's untimely death. Has anyone proposed that it be celebrated on 11 May or even 11 March? Both would be more logical. (Unfortunately I don't have the information necessary to make a good edit.) --Wally Tharg (talk) 11:58, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Attempting to update the citation needed for the online petition that was created to ask Google to create a Doodle in honor of Towel Day. Attempting to refer to the Internet Archive page of the actual petition at the time, errors out due to the Web site in question (Petition Online, long since defunct) being blacklisted. Is there a way to resolve this Catch-22