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Merges and Corrections for Quotes of the Day (corrections for goodreads' staff member)
If I understand correctly nothing can be done with the quote of the day.
Exactly nothing. Ignore them.I wonder if it would be worth creating a thread for these Quote of the Day fixes. A staff member could come and have a look every so often.
Melody wrote: "I think that's what I just did."That is a good point.
I think you need to change the topic title to something which makes it clear that this thread is ONLY for QotD issues.
Albert EinsteinCombine
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/80809...
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/77013...
QotD
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/942-t...
George EliotCombine
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/36991...
QotD
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/619-i...
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We were not aiming this at you. It is more of a place to put these qotd issues so that someone who has the power to fix them, PTB or developer, can find them.
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rivka wrote: "I know. I ran this by the relevant staff."I think that something will eventually need to be worked out or the quotes database is going to get very silly. For example,
Qotd #2: This load should all be combined into the Cicero
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear...
Qotd #4: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear...
is a good one because there are 4 versions by 3 differernt people NONE of whom actually said it (it was Henry Stanley Haskins).
Todays quote "Gossip is never fatal until it is denied."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
doesn't mention The Magnificent Ambersons as the source.
...etc, etc,...
The QotD is always going to be the destination of any merge simply because there will usually be more likers of the 'official' version so there should be no risk of the QotD being rubbed-out.
EDITed to update link
Nicolas Chamforthttp://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32951...
QotD
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1230-...
J.K. Rowling https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4279...
Quote of the Day > July 31, 2013
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
Herman Melvillehttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4000...
Quote of the Day > August 1, 2013
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7865...
Amelia Earharthttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1474...
Quote of the Day > July 24, 2013
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
should probably add "attributed-no-source"
Error in the daily quote:“Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.
”
Closing quotation mark sits wrong.
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Robert Blochhttp://www.goodreads.com/quotes/25256...
into
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6379-...
add tag: misattributed stephen king
Keep on truckin' (August 30, 2013)http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/86949...
needs an apostrophe on the end, what it ain't got one of.
Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 2013)http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63567...
into
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7142-...
Dr. Seuss "I like nonsense" (470+ likes)https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4570...
into
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3356...
J.R.R. Tolkien "Never laugh at live dragons"http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/35293...
into
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/27809...
Eleanor Roosevelt, "Do one thing every day that scares you" should be attributed to Mary Schmichhttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2510...
It is part of the famous "Wear Sunscreen" speech.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/co...
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/...
Roosevelt DID say "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Edited to add link to quote! Sorry.
Oscar Wilde, “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” Add "attributed no source"
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2203...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2772...This was the QOTD for November 9. It wasn't said by Carl Sagan, but by a reporter writing a story about Carl Sagan.
Source:
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/...
J.K. Rowling:QOTD: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5433...
Should be merged with: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8839...
Tried to merge, got error message, came here and found this thread. Not sure if it'll do any good, but this seems to be the place to put it.
Sophie wrote: "J.K. Rowling:QOTD: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5433...
Should be merged with: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8839...
Tried to merge, got error message, came here and found this thread. Not sure if it'll do any good, but this seems to be the place to put it. "
If a QotD is involved then only the staff can edit it. But this is probably the best place to post it.
Heinrich Heine, December 13, 2013https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
Should be "When words leave off, music begins.", not 'where'
Gustave Flaubert, December 12, 2013https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
The full quote translates as:
"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
or add the tag 'paraphrased'
John Lennon"Count your age by friends, not years"
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5744...
By Dixie Lee Crosby.
In conclusion, the lines supplied by the questioner were part of a larger poem that appeared on a birthday card by 1927...The poem was created before John Lennon entered this world.
Mahatma Gandhi, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever"https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2253...
If we are being honest then it should probably be attributed to Isidore of Seville who predates Gandhi by about 1300 years:
"Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow"
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3338...
I find stuff like this constantly. Glad to belatedly see that there's a place to report it.
Kurt Vonnegut, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3799...
into QotD
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1371...
Sylvia Plath “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7038...
is from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath"
Quote of the Day for February 23, 2014 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
is attributed to Tom Bodett.
As explained in this comment (#758), Tom Bodett is positively NOT the original source of this quote.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
George Washington Burnap is the correct person
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
this is the correct book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
The actual page with the original quote is visible here:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ur...
Banjomike wrote: "Quote of the Day for February 23, 2014"Existing variants attributed to Chalmers and Kant have been merged, tagged, and corrected, though of course I can't do anything about the QotD version.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/43294
Quote of the Day for February 26, 2014Johnny Cash, "All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1040...
Please add 'unsourced' as a tag.
George R.R. Martin, "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4084...
Missing a couple of quotation marks, should be:
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one."
Have a look at this search before some 'helpful' soul decide to 'fix' it
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear...
There are 25 results, all 25 are variations on this quote, and all are by George R.R. Martin.
March 14, 2014Sylvia Beach, "I am a citizen of the world."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
Originally said by Diogenes the Cynic who died in 323 BC. Certainly predates all the other versions already on Goodreads except Socrates (who didn't, apparently, say it).
This is the Diogenes version.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5475...
The others
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2838...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8517...
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