Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 3)

[Karma♥Bites ^.~]

OK, thanks. FYI, I've never dealt with quotes―usually just stick to cleaning up blurbs and adding covers to book pages. Even if I knew how to delete a quote, didn't want to touch it myself the first time around. :-)

[Heather]

I think these quotes were wrongfully NAB'd. I tried to restore them myself, but it seems to be the job of a super.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/43751...
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/70709...
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/48714...
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/48510...

[vicki_girl]

Items from msg 152 are fixed.

[Banjomike]

#147 gone

[Moloch]

These 2 quotes are the same, but the second has incorrect author and spelling errors

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/71020...
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/71020...

Is it possible to merge them? Thanks

[Banjomike]

Moloch wrote: "These 2 quotes are the same, but the second has incorrect author and spelling errors

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/71020...
http://www..."

Done. Just what we need. Translated versions of something she probably didn't say even in English.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/71020...

[Jen]

Today's Quote of the Day needs to have the correlating information corrected. It currently reads:

March 7, 1912: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen announced that his expedition had successfully reached the South Pole, 99 years ago today.

This needs to be corrected as March 7, 1912 was 101 years ago today.

Thanks!

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_th...

[Banjomike]

Jen wrote: "Today's Quote of the Day needs to have the correlating information corrected. It currently reads:

March 7, 1912: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen announced that his expedition had successfully reached the South Pole, 99 years ago today.

This needs to be corrected as March 7, 1912 was 101 years ago today.

Thanks!
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_th..."

I've never seen a way of adding/editing a remark like that so I suspect it is a staff-only thing. Screwing-up the dates could also be a staff-only thing.

I found this comment:
"Adventure is Just Bad Planning" Roald Amundsen is supposed to have said that. Presumably, he said it as a natural sentence, without capitalized letters, and in Norwegian.

There don't appear to be any proofs that he said it, or anything like it.

[Jen]

Banjomike wrote: "I've never seen a way of adding/editing a remark like that so I suspect it is a staff-only thing. Screwing-up the dates could also be a staff-only thing.

I found this comment:
"Adventure is Just Bad Planning" Roald Amundsen is supposed to have said that. ..."

Okay, thanks. If he didn't say it, it should probably be deleted, then. But it's the Quote of the Day, so that probably complicates matters greatly. I'll leave it to you (or another super-librarian) or a staff member to deal with / worry about further. :)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

The QOTD date data has been corrected. Thanks for the catch!

[Banjomike]

Jen wrote: "Okay, thanks. If he didn't say it, it should probably be deleted, then. But it's the Quote of the Day, so that probably complicates matters greatly. I'll leave it to you (or another super-librarian) or a staff member to deal with / worry about further. :) "

Nobody touches The Quote of the Day. Nobody.

Edit: Except Rivka.

[Jen]

rivka wrote: "The QOTD date data has been corrected. Thanks for the catch!"

Wonderful, thank you, Rivka!

Thanks also to Banjomike your help, too. :)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Rivka most certainly does NOT touch the QOTD. Rivka reported the issue to the staffers who do.

[Banjomike]

rivka wrote: "Rivka most certainly does NOT touch the QOTD. Rivka reported the issue to the staffers who do."

Seems to be very sensible behavior.

[Donna]

I just added a quote and I'm embarrassed I didn't catch a typo. Is it possible to have this corrected?

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/74899...

Thank you for your time.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Got 165.

[Donna]

Thank you Rivka!

I have one more. My apologies.

Chance should be chances.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/74427...

Thank you for the assistance! I'll be far more careful in the future. :-)

[Jen]

167 corrected :)

[Andor]

I just added a quote by Terry Pratchett and forgot to choose which book it's from. Could someone fix it, please?

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/75172...

It's from The Colour of Magic:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

I apologize for the mistake. Maybe I shouldn't add stuff at 3am.

[Banjomike]

Andor wrote: "I just added a quote by Terry Pratchett and forgot to choose which book it's from. Could someone fix it, please?

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/75172......"

Done.

[Aylya]

Can you please edit this quote: (first one)
Tek isteyim --> Tek isteğim

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...

“Tek isteyim arayıpta bulunan olmaktı. Oysa ne beni bulduğuna sevinen oldu, ne de kaybettiğine üzülen. Sanırım tüm varlığımla gerçek bir zaman kaybıyım.”

to:

“Tek isteğim arayıpta bulunan olmaktı. Oysa ne beni bulduğuna sevinen oldu, ne de kaybettiğine üzülen. Sanırım tüm varlığımla gerçek bir zaman kaybıyım.”

[Amanda]

got 171

[Uğur]

There is another correction for message 171.

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...

In the first one, there is also another mistake.

"Tek isteğim arayıp da bulunan olmaktı. Oysa ne beni bulduğuna sevinen oldu, ne de kaybettiğine üzülen. Sanırım tüm varlığımla gerçek bir zaman kaybıyım." it should be.

[Aylya]

Uğur wrote: "There is another correction for message 171.

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...

In the first one, there is also another mistake.

"Tek isteğim arayıp da bulunan olmaktı. Oysa ne beni b..."

Yes, you are right thank you!

[Banjomike]

Uğur wrote: "There is another correction for message 171.

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...

In the first one, there is also another mistake.

"Tek isteğim arayıp da bulunan olmaktı. Oysa ne beni bulduğuna sevinen oldu, ne de kaybettiğine üzülen. Sanırım tüm varlığımla gerçek bir zaman kaybıyım." it should be. "

Done.

[Stephen]

Please add the keyword beatitudes to:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/97595...
and
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/36806...
and
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10476...

[Banjomike]

Stephen wrote: "Please add the keyword beatitudes

Done. Especially the last one.

[Stephen]

Banjomike wrote: Done. Especially the last one."

Ta very much!

[Stephen]

Please change the keyword "Grace" to "Grace Brisbane" and "Sam" to "Sam Roth" on
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/20151...
and
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/20979...
and
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/20979...

[Banjomike]

Done 179

[Jen]

Hi all, Can a staff member please edit today's Quote of the Day? The "about this quote" reads as follows:
~~~~~~~~
March 15, 44 B.C.: Beware of any friends named Brutus! Julius Caesar laughed off a soothsayer's warning and was assassinated by his frenemy 2056 years ago today.
~~~~~~~~
If you do the math, however, March 15, 44 BC was actually 2057 years ago. It'd be great if the "about" info could be changed to read "March 15, 44 B.C.: Beware of any friends named Brutus! Julius Caesar laughed off a soothsayer's warning and was assassinated by his frenemy 2057 years ago today."

Here's the link to the quote: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_th...

Thank you!!

[Banjomike]

Jen wrote: "Hi all, Can a staff member please edit today's Quote of the Day? The "about this quote" reads as follows:
~~~~~~~~
March 15, 44 B.C.: Beware of any friends named Brutus! Julius Caesar laughed off a soothsayer's warning and was assassinated by his frenemy 2056 years ago today.
~~~~~~~~
If you do the math, however, March 15, 44 BC was actually 2057 years ago. It'd be great if the "about" info could be changed to read "March 15, 44 B.C.: Beware of any friends named Brutus! Julius Caesar laughed off a soothsayer's warning and was assassinated by his frenemy 2057 years ago today."
"

There was no year zero. So the year before 1 A.D. was 1 B.C.. So the difference between 10 B.C. and 10 A.D. is 19 years not 20 'cos there is no year zero. On the face of it, 44 B.C. to 2013 A.D. should be (2013+44) or (2013-(-44)) but is actually 1 year less ie. 2056 years. If I've done the sums right.

See this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(year)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

My math agrees with Banjomike's.

[Jen]

Banjomike wrote: "There was no year zero. So the year before 1 A.D. was 1 B.C.. So the difference between 10 B.C. and 10 A.D. is 19 years not 20 'cos there is no year zero. ..."

Makes sense. Thanks for the clarification (and the education!). :-)

[rameau]

I just added a quote from E. M. Foster's Maurice, but it links back to the wrong author. Could you please fix this?

[lafon حمزة]

Sure, it was E.M. Foster, instead of E.M. Forster.

[rameau]

lafon حمزة wrote: "Sure, it was E.M. Foster, instead of E.M. Forster."

Thanks. I keep mistyping the name.

[Asif]

I was looking at the quotes for Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and the first one struck me as completely false (despite being extremely popular).

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...

The word 'uncommon' never appears in the text of Common Sense:

http://www.ushistory.org/paine/common...

this quote about entrepreneurship is from the 1950s and not the 1770s!

[Kate]

Could somebody please delete both of these quotes: http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...

Neither is associated with the book they've been attributed to in any way.

[Banjomike]

Asif wrote: "I was looking at the quotes for Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and the first one struck me as completely false (despite being extremely popular).

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/..."

Now attributed to Dean Alfange.

[Banjomike]

Kate wrote: "Could somebody please delete both of these quotes: http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...

Neither is associated with the book they've been attributed to in any way."

I've moved them to Genevieve Pearson. I fairly sure they are from the Song of the Silvertongue but I can't pin them down. Yet.

[Marie]

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/44221...

Apparently commonly misattributed to Betty White, but this article it belongs to "#Sheng Wang" or possibly even another comedian? It's not clear how far it goes.

[vicki_girl]

Most articles I could find attribute Sheng Wang as the original source. I have edited the quote accordingly.

[Kate]

Banjomike wrote: "Kate wrote: "Could somebody please delete both of these quotes: http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...

Neither is associated with the book they've been attributed to in any way."

I've move..."

Thank you :)

[Bill]

Please delete this quote, as it's incorrect: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/searc... . Thanks!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Removed.

[Bill]

rivka wrote: "Removed."

Thank you!

[Inkling]

This quotation is incorrectly attributed to C.S. Lewis. Can a librarian please correct it?

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/29271...

No one on the internet (read: first 2 pages of google) can cite a source for it. Here's a good discussion on the matter, including some persuasive research that the quote is not Lewis:
http://merecslewis.blogspot.com/2011/...

I believe the quotation is most accurately attributed to "unknown" or "anonymous." If Goodreads doesn't permit that, the quote should probably be deleted. (Though I would argue for keeping it with anonymous attribution. If it's completely removed, it will just show up again with C.S. Lewis's name on it.)

Here are some other places the misattribution appears on Goodreads:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quote...
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/age
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/g...
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/d...

Thank you!

[Banjomike]

Inkling wrote: "This quotation is incorrectly attributed to C.S. Lewis. Can a librarian please correct it?

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/29271...

No one on the internet (read: first 2 pages of google) can cite a source for it. Here's a good discussion on the matter, including some persuasive research that the quote is not Lewis"

Sounds too smarmy to be Lewis. I agree that there is no source visible. I intended to delete it but Alice and her "Goodreads request took too long" bug are getting in the way.

Note: this page includes a discussion on the quote:
http://merecslewis.blogspot.co.uk/201...

[Blair]

Please delete the two quotes listed under my name:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/searc...

They break the quote guidelines.

(PS: I know of a few authors that are quoting their own material as a means of gaming the system.)