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Moloch
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Jul 04, 2017 02:07PM
Since a lot of authors keep mistakenly posting requests for moving books from their profiles in the "Please delete this book" thread, would it be useful (for them and for the superlibrarians who monitor that thread) to create another sticky thread in the "Book Issues" folder named "This book is not mine, please move it" or similar for such requests?
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Moloch wrote: "Since a lot of authors keep mistakenly posting requests for moving books from their profiles in the "Please delete this book" thread, would it be useful (for them and for the superlibrarians who mo..."That sounds a really good idea!
Not sure those authors will read the instructions, since they don't in the wrong thread, but it couldn't hurt.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Not sure those authors will read the instructions, since they don't in the wrong thread, but it couldn't hurt."If it is stickied so it is the first thing they see they might.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Not sure those authors will read the instructions, since they don't in the wrong thread, but it couldn't hurt."For me it's not about instructions reading but (mis)understanding of the word "delete" - for them it's kind of deletion if a book vanishes from profile ... and if you click just on a red "new" instead of the thread title you go directly to the end of the thread and can post wihtout seeing post #1 (and most likely they believe they are in the correct thread)
- although I hate it if you don't read #1 in a thread -
+1 for moloch's suggestion, sounds simple and should be understandable .. hopefully clear enough to make the difference to the real deletion thread.
But we'll see...
A additional [include link] or sth similar is probably too long I assume? (With hope it would be done then...they won't read a first post I fear...)
lethe wrote: "Or something like "Please move book from my profile".""This book is not mine, please move it from my profile" should be clear enough
There having been 4 votes for "This book is not mine, please move it" and no more than 1 vote for any other suggestion, the motion carries. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...






