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

[lafon حمزة]

Eileen wrote: "I messed up on a quote -_-' and I would like to delete it if possible?

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/77156..."

Seeing as no-one had like it - gone.

[Henning]

Super librarian needed.

I think it should be tagged with "depression" and "sorrow" as well. It doesn't mention depression directly, but it's a quote that could be describing it.

I personally think "smile" should be removed to, as it sounds like an ignorat slap in the face, but that's up to the super librarian.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/22526...

[Banjomike]

Henning wrote: "Super librarian needed.

I think it should be tagged with "depression" and "sorrow" as well. It doesn't mention depression directly, but it's a quote that could be describing it.

I personally think "smile" should be removed to, as it sounds like an ignorat slap in the face, but that's up to the super librarian."

Done. 'smile' was a bit sarcastic so it has gone.

[Henning]

Super librarian needed.

I think this should be tagged with the popular "inspirational" tag.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3214-...

[Nika]

Hi, I made a mistake while adding the last qoute http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/... It should be sprinklers, not sprinlers if you could correct it, please. Thanks in advance :)

[Henning]

Done 207.

[Banjomike]

Henning wrote: "Super librarian needed.

I think this should be tagged with the popular "inspirational" tag.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3214-..."

Done

[Clarice]

Please delete this quote. I found a more complete one in the database. Not sure why I didn't find it in my first search. Thank you.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/77451...

[Banjomike]

Gone

[C.L.]

I messed up. When I saw the opportunity to write a quote, my brain disengaged and I posted a personal quote versus something from the book. doh! But I can't find a way to remove it from the site. I used the little x to "remove from my quotes" to remove the version with a typo and reposted the correct version and then suddenly there were two identical quotes. But that's not the real problem. Those identical quotes don't belong to the book.
Please go to http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/... and remove the quotes "Don't be afraid to reinvent yourself. I have done it before and am doing it again. It makes life interesting." for the goodreads site versus just from my list. Or is that the same thing?

thanks, c

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I combined the two identical quotes and unlinked the combined quite from the book.

[C.L.]

rivka wrote: "I combined the two identical quotes and unlinked the combined quite from the book."

thanks rivka

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

I haven't done anything with quotes in so long, I don't remember how. Can someone point me to directions or take a crack at combining the quotes on this page? There are lots of duplicates. Thanks!

[Kitchener]

Anyone want to delete or edit this quote for me?

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/77580...

It should read:

O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!

[Krista]

216 done. I edited it for you.
Combined most of the similar quotes for 215.

[Melody]

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72321...

I've been trying to delete this quote - and keep getting the message:

"The page you requested doesn't exist. Please check the url again, or visit the home page.

« go to the goodreads homepage"

Anyone else have any success? I've had several others give me the same message.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Looks like it may be a bug. Links to the other misbehaving ones?

[Banjomike]

rivka wrote: "Looks like it may be a bug. Links to the other misbehaving ones?"

This bugs thread has a number of quotes which give a similar error
"page unavailable
An unexpected error occurred. We will investigate this problem ... "

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

There are a few more offenders, but not immediately to hand.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Don't think it's the same issue. Those have close to 10,000 adds each; it's a time-out issue.

This one has zero adds.

[Melody]

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18924...

Having to retrace my steps. Here's one.

Edit:
I do believe that the one thing they had in common was 0 adds

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Weird. Anyway, when a developer has a chance, those should get zapped.

[Melody]

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13928...

Here's one with 1 add

[Banjomike]

Kat wrote: "http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14286...

This quote is misattributed to Shakespeare. Since it has been liked by more than 500 members, a superlibrarian ..."

Fixed and reformatted.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Re the quotes with zero/one add: a developer is manually deleting them, and the bug preventing their deletion should be fixed in the next couple days.

Re the quotes with close to 10,000 adds: a developer is manually deleting them (but it will take a while!), and the bug preventing their deletion should be fixed in the next couple days. However, even after it is fixed, deleting quotes with that many adds will take a long time. My suggestion is to leave that tab alone for a while and check it after an hour or so.

[Melody]

Thanks for the update

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Kat wrote: "Are you saying that every quote with only 1 like is about to be deleted?"

No, definitely not! There is a bug that was preventing quotes with just 1 or 0 likes from being deleted under certain circumstances. That is getting fixed, and the "delete" link will then work for such quotes. But no quotes are getting automatically zapped, regardless of how many users have added them.

Clearer?

[Banjomike]

I have sort-of wondered about quotes with zero likes. If the person who adds the quote to Goodreads doesn't 'like' the quote then why should anyone else? Might there be an argument in favour of removing quotes with zero (and only zero) likes? or maybe there aren't enogh to worry about.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I had the same thoughts, but am unconvinced there are all that many.

[Banjomike]

rivka wrote: "I had the same thoughts, but am unconvinced there are all that many."

If a developer is deleting some quotes then it might be straightforward to write a Q&D (Quick and Dirty) to report on the number of zero quotes. I would volunteer to tidy them up or combine them with proper quotes if there was a page with a list.

[Heather]

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/60860...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Gone.

[Flora]

Can you please remove the personal quote I put on my author page? PLUS why is this the only box I can't edit? It's maddening - authors must want to change this all the time!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Removed.

[John]

In my own quotes, third quote down, would you change "requires" to "require"? Thanks. ill typ more carefuler nezt time.

[Banjomike]

John wrote: "In my own quotes, third quote down, would you change "requires" to "require"? Thanks. ill typ more carefuler nezt time."

Dood.

[Incognito]

I've just failed Following Instructions 101 by entering the title of the book I added a quote from after the author's name, even though it clearly said not to. Now it displays funny and doesn't show up with the rest of the author's quotes, and I am mortified. I am a librarian in real life, so these things matter to me! I am sorry. Can someone fix it, please? Here is the quote:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Thank you!

[Vicky]

Fixed 242

[Flora]

Flora wrote: "Can you please remove the personal quote I put on my author page? PLUS why is this the only box I can't edit? It's maddening - authors must want to change this all the time!"

Brilliant - many thanks

[Cheryl]

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag?u...

needs to be deleted as spam.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I got that one. But please send spam to the Contact Us link in future.

[John]

Hi, I am an author trying to negotiate the mechanisms of the Quotes system here at Goodreads – which I am quite new to, as you’ll see.

Trying to get in the Goodreads spirit, I decided to add the epigrams for my new novel, Glass House 51. I copied them from the book's epigram page and pasted them into the Quotes section of the Glass House 51 page under the section "Quotes from Glass House 51."

This was my mistake, as the quotes listed here are not from the novel, but are in fact epigrams, quotes from external sources, Bill Clinton, Thomas Pynchon, and Masahide. (I guess I didn’t understand the nature of the “Quotes” section.)

But I in fact managed to label the first as (epigram: Glass House 51) but then somehow ended up pasting all three with no "epigram disclaimer" for the last two.

So ... I thought, that's not right, I'll go in and edit them, and then I learned to my surprise that I couldn't do this, as I do not have librarian status, even though this is my book and my book page. Kind of strange and disappointing, but I chalked it off to learning to work within this system.

Okay, so I write to Goodreads and plead my case and a kindly Goodreads staffer tries to help by then actually creating separate pages for the quotes, the last two of the three, anyway, and unfortunately doesn't understand the epigram thing and thus doesn't attribute them to Pynchon or Masahide, so it now looks like I am the originator of those quotes! (I frankly wish I was -- they're great and freakily capture the zeitgeist of the book – but (sigh) of course I'm not.)

Anyway, I think I now understand the nature of the “Quotes” section – that they are supposed to be sparkling gems from the work itself and not external epigrams.

So to clean up this mess I think I should just delete these epigrams entirely from “Quotes.”

So could someone please just cleanly delete everything, quotes, quote pages, the whole mess created by these misplaced epigrams and I’ll consider it a Goodreads lesson learned. Ouch.

Thanks in advance to all librarians who perform these noble tasks....

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I deleted the two I found. I don't see a third one.

[Cheryl]

tx - now I know (and I should've guessed)

[John]

Rivka, thanks so much. I still don't see why I can't edit my own quotes, but at least we've got you guys. Thanks again.

[Jade]

typo, has an extra quotation mark at the end:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/78907...

Thanks.

[Banjomike]

The quotation mark is automatically added. Fixed author name and a spelling mistake.

[Empress]

These are the same. I guess one should be deleted:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/48237...
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/25128...

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/37406...
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/38811...

Short: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/62062...
Longer but the same: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/54937...
The same one: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/41137...


This one I have no idea from which book is it, I don't see such a title in the authors profile: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/48246...
The same about this one: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/48244...-
And this: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/29840...
Another one from the same book that doesn't come up with the list:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/41880...

[Banjomike]

#253
1 - includes a QotD (three versions, one is the QotD). We leave those.
2 - combined
3 - combined two long versions. Short version is pithier and OK.
4 - "Earthseed: The Books of the Living" is the name of the series, not a single book. Quotes look OK.

[Margaret]

Hello! A kind reader added a quote from my book but in so doing spelled two of the words wrong. It currently reads, "crule requrement."

Can someone fix this for me? It would be most appreciated!

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

All best,

Margaret Lesh

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Fixed 255.