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Problem adding award on book pages - word 'for' in name of award
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Antonomasia wrote: "Is there any way round it at the moment? ..."Yes, go to the newly created incorrect award (this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/... ? ), click the 'edit' below 'More Awards', change its name to 'Warwick Prize for Women in Translation', click 'Save' and it should tell you that the name is taken and offer to merge it, click 'Merge'.
You can remove the wrongly added category before merging or after - with the 'edit' in parenthesis (next to the category).
Book page cache may need to be refreshed ('edit details' link on the book record) for the award to be displayed correctly.
Thank you! So I add them all as Warwick Prize and then merge. Developers need to sort this too though.
There's also 'merge awards' > 'merge these awards' button on https://www.goodreads.com/award (you have to use the Search box to filter the ones you want), I've never used it, but it probably does the same thing.Antonomasia wrote: "Developers need to sort this too though."
Seeing that there's note of in the manual: https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/412 I think they are unlikely to change it anytime soon, but you can ask in the Feedback group.
When I go to edit the award on the book page, it has called it "Warwick Prize" with category automatically added as "Women in Translation" where one would normally input Longlist, Shortlist or other subcategory. The prize does not have any other subcategories and the prize explicitly has Women in Translation in the title as it was a prize specifically for this, that was campaigned for for a few years by translators and some bloggers I know.
It really should be possible to have "for" in the title of a prize on GR without this happening. It appears to be a programming error.
Is there any way round it at the moment? Apart from naming it "Warwick Women in Translation Prize" which seems like the best alternative to communicate what it's for on GR. Some people do click through on awards to find out more, and they are more likely to do so if the name is descriptive on a new or smaller award like this one.