Talk:Ford Prefect

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

Ford Prefect (car) → Ford Prefect — The car is the main subject here and anything else should be disambiguated. —Reginmund 04:23, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

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 * There is no reason the "Ford Prefect should be disambiguated since the other term was named after the car. Reginmund 04:24, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. It doesn't matter which came first or more recently, but there are only two items on the dab page, and a dablink from the first item can take care of the second. Dekimasu よ! 08:29, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose I doubt this defunct model can claim primary usage. It may be better to add dab headers and change the dab page into a redirect to one of them - probably the character. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:24, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Support; I'm aware of HGTTG's popularity, but the car is an icon of British culture. Masaruemoto 02:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - the character is named after the car. It is good to remind HHGTTG readers of that. -- Beardo 04:39, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose - the character has been fairly famous since the novels came out, and the novels are quite popular. 70.55.86.129 04:14, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Any additional comments:


 * I expect this proposal to run into recentist objections, but I do think that it's stupid to have a disambig page for two entries. One or the other should become the main article. -- Groggy Dice T | C 07:43, 28 June 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. ''A hatlink suffices instead of a disambig. page.'' --Stemonitis 08:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Mistake
'' In the 2005 film adaptation, the character is seen to be nearly run over by a real Ford Prefect automobile. Adams himself noted that Americans totally missed this joke (as this vehicle was never sold in the US).'' - Can't be, Douglas Adams died in 2001, four years before the movie was released. What is meant by the sentence? --FordPrefect42 (talk) 22:53, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Adams did, however, approve the screenplay of the film prior to his death. Whether this joke was in the version of the screenplay he saw or not, I couldn't say.  But this film was floating around in development for years before they actually started production. Lurlock (talk) 16:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Dating UK registered cars
I think I may have entered a link wrongly in an edit summary I just entered to the Ford Prefeect page. But it's quite a useful site for some (of our) purposes. I wonder if I can make it work better here...

http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk

RegardsCharles01 (talk) 10:24, 30 September 2008 (UTC)