Talk:Douglas Adams

I changed a couple of things, and lost the page reference because it changes from publication to publication (duh). The previous wikipedian wrote that it was on page 117, but the quote is on page 142 on my paperback edition.

The quote is from the chapter "Why there almost certainly is no God", about two pages into "National selection as a consiousness-raiser" just after the first block-quote from the Salmon of Doubt.

Matt Tait.

I came in here via the category [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_broken_reference_names Pages with broken reference names] and in tracking down the problem found that the first named citation was in the 'Influences' section of the Writer InfoBox. I've fixed that but I noticed Influences/Influenced in the Infobox weren't displaying and found that it was removed from the template on 4 Aug 2013[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_writer&diff=567161345&oldid=544590206] after a discussion on the Template Talk page.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_writer#.22Influences.22_and_.22Influenced.22] Given that it was redundant I removed those as well but there was some info it it that may be useful elsewhere in the article.

Influences:

• P. G. Wodehouse
• Lewis Carroll
• Kurt Vonnegut[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/09/douglasadams Culture: Books: Douglas Adams], The Guardian, 22 July 2008
• Monty Python
• Tony HancockGregg Pearlman, [http://www.liquivista.com/eeeeeegp/NotGiants/Projects/Adams.html Exclusive Interview with Douglas Adams], 27 March 1987
• Robert Sheckley
• Kenneth Grahame
• A. A. Milne[http://www.douglasadams.eu/en_bonus_interview_mjs.php Exclusive Interview with M. J. Simpson], Life, DNA & H2G2, 11 May 2002

Influenced:

• Eoin Colfer
• Richard Dawkins{{cite news|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/roundupstory/0,,1939704,00.html |title=Observer, ''The God Delusion'', 5 November 2006|newspaper=The Guardian|date=5 November 2006 |accessdate=1 June 2009 | location=London | first=Kim | last=Bunce}}
• Greg Rucka"The Third Degree: Greg Rucka". Jupiter's Legacy #2 (June 2013) Image Comics. p. 27.

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Within the article, it is stated the Douglas died at both 49 and 59. This needs urgent revision and fact checking 49.199.242.215 (talk) 02:33, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

:I see where Belson is described as dying at 59, but I don't see where Adams is. Can you clarify? Larry Hockett (Talk) 02:41, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Can we get a proper bibliography for Adams? Split it off into a "Douglas Adams in media" article or something, but this article is missing a lot of stuff (novelizations of his scripts, etc.) that should be documented *somewhere* and has TV credits under both "Works" and "TV writing credits". It's sloppy and unfortunate. 128.151.71.7 (talk) 12:58, 21 April 2023 (UTC)