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Throughout the novel the British Special-Air-Service is referred to as RAF (Royal Air Force) and fly-boys. The SAS are an army unit. They were based on the long-range-desert group which used jeeps in north africa to raid behind enemy lines - the idea being that if anyone was captured or a spy heard of the SAS it would be assumed they were parachuting - a detachment 2702 type endeavor! Is this an error or a deliberate joke? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.7.127.253 (talk) 03:42, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
... and Cryptonomicon links to Qwghlm under "see also". Not sure if there used to be a Qwghlm article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.1.79 (talk) 08:02, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
There's a similar issue with Kinakuta; also mentioned in this article, also used to have an article of its own, also now redirects to this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Merpius (talk • contribs) 18:39, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
qwghlm had a pretty biggish article for a while. If it was considered significant enough to get its own article back in the day, seems like it should at least get a section here. If for no other reason than so people know why they were redirected. . . 131.151.26.211 (talk) 21:13, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Qwghlm definitely needs a section here, especially because Mary Smith is referred to twice as "Qwghlmian," which has to be extremely confusing to anyone not already familiar with the term. Maybe it doesn't need a whole article (although that would be great because I think it's hilarious), but some reference somewhere on Wikipedia is definitely in order. Baleener (talk) 18:58, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm getting sick and (expletive deleted) tired of seeing "non-significant" articles related to this series of bestselling, genre-changing novels deleted with false redirects, without any serious review, while every species of celery or centipede Tolkien, Rowling or Lucas dreamed up get their own wiki-shrines! Bridgman (talk) 02:36, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Some suggest that the character Dr. Günter Enoch Bobby "G.E.B." Kivistik - is actually Neil's hidden reference to the book Godel, Escher, Bach (GEB), in addition to other references to it in the book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.7.19.34 (talk) 10:21, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
I restored Mary to the list of characters, as her absence left a subsequent mention unclear. However the entry states "Mary cCmndhd (pronounced "Skuhmithid" and anglicized as "Smith")": I think the anglicization is in the novel but I am less sure of the pronunciation being there. Anyone know where this contention came from? Does it need a citation?Dankarl (talk) 13:56, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Currently she is duplicated between the WWII and both storylines sectuions. This is illogical but the location of the section leads to confusion when characters are mentioned before they are identified. Possible solutions would be to move the both storylines section to the top of the section, or to put the characters into the sections where they mostly figure or are first introduced, possibly with a cross reference in the other section. Comments?Dankarl (talk) 20:28, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse appears to be partly a fictionalization of Atanasoff who also went from Iowa state (inventing arguably the first computer) to the Navy. Should this be mentioned somewhere in the article? Thanks, Shahar Goldin (talk) 19:43, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Shahar Goldin (talk) 15:37, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
I added this into the Category: 1990s science fiction novels Transcendentalist01 (talk) 20:15, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
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