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Josefina (kofferkind) | 9 comments It says "first published January 1st 1388" which is clearly not the case :)
Would someone mind changing that to august 2008? Thank you!


Elizabeth (Alaska) GR staff should be able to change this, overriding Persian dates.


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lethe | 16360 comments So long as the manual and several threads still state to use the Gregorian calendar, I'll change Persian dates :)

Have corrected the publication date on the Persian edition.


Elizabeth (Alaska) Yeah, and I could easily have changed it. But staff can leave Persian dates and still have the original published date be Gregorian.


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lethe | 16360 comments But, do we want that? :P


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Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "But staff can leave Persian dates and still have the original published date be Gregorian."

I just checked, and we have no such feature.


Elizabeth (Alaska) rivka wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "But staff can leave Persian dates and still have the original published date be Gregorian."

I just checked, and we have no such feature."


Thank you. Can you check, then, what has happened here?

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...?


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lethe | 16360 comments rivka, in answer to your comment on the topic Elizabeth linked to, it was flagged.

But what we would like to know is, how is it possible that the Persian edition has a Persian publication date, but the original pub date was later changed to 2005 (I believe it was), and doesn't revert to the Persian date when edits are done? We are just mystified by that.


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rivka | 45177 comments Mod
It did change (and was changed back). Not every edit triggers the pub date check.


Elizabeth (Alaska) rivka wrote: "It did change (and was changed back). Not every edit triggers the pub date check."

Ok, I'm sorry I didn't come here first instead of trying to follow up the thrust of the question in the other thread. I guess this goes to how the system works. If not every edit is going to trigger the pub date check, perhaps that needs to be investigated/fixed.


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lethe | 16360 comments Thanks rivka! Now I can sleep soundly :)
(Goodnight, Elizabeth!)


Elizabeth (Alaska) rivka wrote: "It did change (and was changed back). Not every edit triggers the pub date check."

I think I still don't understand the process, which is what was being asked in the other thread. There remains a book with a Persian date, yet the original pub date is 2005.


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Philip (burnnerman) | 5912 comments #12 - Actually they have reverted the date of the book in the other thread to Gregorian, and made a note that it should not be changed to the persian, because of GR policy, so I think that satisfies your question.


Elizabeth (Alaska) Philip wrote: "#12 - Actually they have reverted the date of the book in the other thread to Gregorian, and made a note that it should not be changed to the persian, because of GR policy, so I think that satisfie..."

Yes, thanks for the follow-up.


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