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The article states that: "In the books, prot notes that Jane Goodall, John Lennon, Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer are among the most K-PAXian (famous) humans on Earth." which is inacurrate. The book actually states on many occasions, that prot is the only one of his species to visit Earth and those mentioned are simply humans who live their lives in a similar way to that of K-PAXians. -- 109.80.206.182 ( talk) 08:22, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Although in the article it states that K-Paxians do not capitalize proper names, we are not K-Paxians so I capitalized all the lower case p's in the Prot throughout the article. Xephik 02:42, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
As prot is the name of the character and it's a work of fiction, I have decapitalized the name. One 11:19, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Even tho K-Paxians do not capitilise proper names, shouldn't prot have a capital where it appears at the start of a sentence? Even words that aren't proper names have capitals when they appear at the start of the sentence. SexyIrishLeprechaun 16:32, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
If anyone knows a K-paxian than we can settle this the right way. Shreder 02 ( talk) 12:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
In the books, the letters at the beginning of every sentence are capitalized. With this in mind, 'prot' is only to be capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. By verdict of me, so be it. 71.197.86.209 ( talk) 19:04, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Just finished reading the trilogy (and discovered on this article that there's a fourth book also): the author makes it clear that he adopts Prot's convention of only capitalising planets and such. Thus, the alien/alter-ego's name is "Prot", but he would write it "prot" and so does Gene Brewer's "Gene Brewer" character. I suggest we either explain the convention and state clearly that we adopt it, or we don't use the convention at all in keeping with the rest of the encyclopaedia. Syneil ( talk) 22:17, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
Well, let's decide on *something*, because as of right now, the capitalization isn't consistent. It is capital in some places, and lowercase in others. 74.46.62.31 ( talk) 07:17, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
According to the Wikipedia Manual of Style, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(capital_letters), "Wikipedia does capitalize initial letters of proper nouns, and often proper adjectives. In doing this, we follow common usage, and when uncapitalized forms are the normal English usage (abelian group, k.d. lang), we follow common usage." That said, prot should not be capitalized. Whether this is correct when drafting a paper for English class, I do not know, but for the purpose of a Wikipedia article, it is correct. -- Evmore ( talk) 19:36, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Not enough information on the books. We need someone who has read them to provide summaries, and hopefully, an analysis.
Malamockq
19:37, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Should definately be merged, KPAXians only exist in these books and film and as the book and film pages are so sparce it seems daft that kpaxians have their own page (
Wildfireone
00:06, 14 December 2006 (UTC))
Having just seen the film I agree that it should be merged. BalzacLFS 09:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
If there is a fourth book then it isn't a trilogy anymore, right? Guirro 23:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
There are 5 books in "The Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchhikers Guide Trilogy" Shreder 02 ( talk) 12:05, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
That makes sense for Hitchhiker's, where it is just another joke in a comic series. It makes no sense to use it here. 75.57.232.186 ( talk) 08:30, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
There is a major argentinean film "Hombre mirando al sudeste" (1986) by film director Eliseo Subiela http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091214/, can any one point at references of this film and the issues arising from obvious similarities in the 1986-film and the novel and film? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.137.93.112 ( talk) 09:35, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
In the movie, the plagiarism is SO OBVIOUSLY STRIKING!!! Spacey plays the role of Hugo Soto ("Rant&ecaute;s"), Bridges plays Lorenzo Quinteros ("Dr. Julio Denis"). And the description I read of the novel's K-Paxians, well... all that was presented in the movie.
Not the first plagiarism that movie suffered, though. On 1993's "Mr. Jones", Richard Gere storms the place of an orquestra director, just like Rantés.
This section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prot#K-PAXians is written very strangely. It claims that they only capitalize the names of celestial bodies, yet the article itself capitalizes a name. Is this intentional? I assume it is (as we speak English, not KPAXian or whatever ;) ) but should be reviewed by someone who actually has "read" the book (not me). I'm not going to look up whoever wrote some comment about how gravity works, but it struck me as kind of "silly". If we want to know what gravity is, the place to ask is probably not in the front face of an encyclopeida article. Who could possibly answer there? Consequently I'm removing that, but to the author, here is an answer: You seemed confused that a planet smaller than Neptune could exert "less gravity" than Earth. Gravity has nothing to do with the size of a planet, so there's nothing wrong with that. Gravity is caused by mass, not by volume. A planet the size of Neptune could easily be far "heavier" than the Earth if it were composed entirely of some very heavy substance; thus it would have "more gravity". 125.236.211.165 ( talk) 03:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm with ya! Shreder 02 ( talk) 12:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
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Hi everyone, i'm an italian living in Chile_ Sorry for my english_
It seems to me that K-Pax plot has too many coincidences with the argentinian director movie Hombre mirando al sudeste, made in 1986_ Is there any term to mention these "strange" coincidences in the article? Thanks_ Leonardo Migliarini |
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