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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
 * Places 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: