Talk:Ford Prefect

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Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. 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)[reply]

Survey

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Support; I'm aware of HGTTG's popularity, but the car is an icon of British culture. Masaruemoto 02:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - the character is named after the car. It is good to remind HHGTTG readers of that. -- Beardo 04:39, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]

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)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. 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 from Ford Prefect (car) to Ford Prefect as the result of a move request. A hatlink suffices instead of a disambig. page. --Stemonitis 08:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]