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Issues with Quotes
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Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 4)
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear... A bunch of these need to be merged.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6869...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/978-...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7289...
Not sure about the rest. They all seem to have different wording, however some are contributed to other authors.
Please delete all quotes found on this page. None are anything I've said/written and should not be attributed to me.* I am not the author of these quotes
* I did not post these
* I can't amend/correct it
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
There's a double quote here on the book description page, can the duplicate be deleted?https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...
Thanks!
:)
#716 This seems to have been done.#717 Deleted duplicate quote.
#715 Still needs to be done (didn't check).
lethe wrote: "#716 This seems to have been done.#717 Deleted duplicate quote.
#715 Still needs to be done (didn't check)."
Thank you for the update!
Could someone please update the quote that I added to reflect that it is from the novel City of Pearl - need to be less trigger happy with the save button!Quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7415...
Novel: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Thanks very much!
#715There were 25 variations of that quote!
The first one is a Quote of the Day and therefore Untouchable. [Cue Elliot Ness music]
The others are now combined into this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3222...
Edit: 26 variations
Rafael wrote: "#720 done."thanks very much!
Hello, I added this quote earlier:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7417...
But because the book titles were truncated on the list, I ended up adding it to the wrong book (the free preview edition, instead of the actual book). It should be attributed to this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Also, I believe the end quote got cut off somehow. I feel like there should be another end quote inside the main quotes. (Aka ...in here.' " - not ...in here." as it's shown.)
Thank you very much!
#724 added the right book and an end quote to the quote.
Arenda wrote: "#724 added the right book and an end quote to the quote."Thanks again!
Please merge these identical quotes from Heart of Darkness:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9726...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1233...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6766...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1454...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1242...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6547...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8508...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8723...
(I have the Penguin classics paperback in front of me, and the correct line is "[Y]our strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.")
Katherine wrote: "Please merge these identical quotes from Heart of Darkness:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9726...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1233......"
And also these, please. Thanks!
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2967...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3222...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6358...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4014...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7142...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1347...
Merged, both #727 and #728, but I don't know why the number of likes were not merged. In the two cases, in the quote that remained, the number of likes is the same number from when they were not merged.And that quote (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1349...) have and description in the quote and I cannot fixed it. The message is: "Quote has already been entered."
I did a mistake or is this the default in GR? When the quotes were merged the book (the book that contains the quote) is not showed anymore.
Edit: sorry, #728 in progress.
Edit2: #728 done. And occurred what I said. The number of likes remained the same.
Rafael wrote: "The number of likes remained the same. "That happens a lot. Sometimes the likes get updated later but not always (not usually). I logged it as a bug with Support at the end of September.
There's a typo in the quote of the day:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9568...
"Thats" instead of "That's"
I discovered after saving that perhaps I should have listed the author of this quote as "Williams, Dee" as it is from the book The Big Tiny that didn't come up in the suggested books by the author "Dee Williams". I'm just hoping it can be linked to the right author & book and I know better for the future!https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7426...
#730 Added the book to the quote after correcting the author. This author has an extra space between first and last name to separate from the other author with the same name.
Watching Themhttps://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...Hi, this quote has been added by someone to this book:
“We can go out,’ she said, throwing her arms around”
― Fiona McShane, Watching Them
It is incomplete. Is it possible to delete? I don't know who added it. Thanks :)
Could someone update this quote:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7431...
Where it says:
“dark money” - money”— funds
It should say:
“dark money” - funds
#732 even it is incomplete it will not be deleted. The quotes must be deleted if they are wrongly linked, to a book or to an author. You can ask for an adition, for example, the complete quote.#733 done.
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Not quite. It has zero likes, and it's the author requesting. Deletion pending.
rivka wrote: "Rafael wrote: "#732 even it is incomplete it will not be deleted."Not quite. It has zero likes, and it's the author requesting. Deletion pending."
Thank you.
Lesli wrote: "Shouldn't this be broken into the individual quotes?https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6084..."
Dupes so combined into the Edgar Allan Poe. Along with a bunch of other variants.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2634...
rivka wrote: "Rafael wrote: "#732 even it is incomplete it will not be deleted."Not quite. It has zero likes, and it's the author requesting. Deletion pending."
Ok. But it's my policy don't delete quotes in this kind of claim. I don't think that claims like that should be done. The quote is not linked wrongly or it has any errors, so I guess them must not be deleted. But, it's my policy, not the GR one.
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I don't want to offend anybody (particularly not whoever it was who took the time to add the quote in the first place. I'm grateful if it was a reader who took the time to do so). I was just unsure of what the process was when a quote was incomplete as this one was. Thanks Rafael and Rivka. I've written the full quote below in case think it better to complete rather than delete (but I see it's deleted now so maybe it's too late). Thank you both, Rafael and Rivka, for your time.Watching Them‘We can go out,’ she said, throwing her arms around me. ‘We can actually go out!’
rivka wrote: "While librarians are certainly free to refrain from doing edits which they are not comfortable with, even if they are consistent with Goodreads policy, please don't express your personal preference..."You are right, rivka. Sorry. I always try to be as a good librarian as possible and I could be more clear when I answered. Sorry, Fiona, for this.
Screwed up the dashes on this one:http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7438982
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Could someone make the first dash match the second in this part:
"president— Richard Nixon - "
Carol - Georgia font on my mind! wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8142...Is it possible to change [D]on't to Don't?
Thanks."
The "[D]" is there because the actual quotation does not begin with "Don't" and the squiggle tells the people that read the quotation that the start has been truncated/paraphrased/screwed.
This is the original quotation (italics in the original):
Beyond that -- don't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...
Banjomike wrote: "The "[D]" is there because...
Thanks for the reply - as a librarian I am still learning. The original quote reads so much better - I'm off to hunt it down! :)
Carol - Georgia font on my mind! wrote: "Banjomike wrote: "The "[D]" is there because...
Thanks for the reply - as a librarian I am still learning. The original quote reads so much better - I'm off to hunt it down! :)"
Here is the original on Neil Gaiman's website. Last paragraph.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2003/08...
Hi!I have a quote here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
where it says: “We need a fire extinguisher over here because no human should ever be allowed to be this hot.”
but i forgot to add that the quote is in my book The Popularity Project. Do you think you could fix that? thanks!
Hello,I need your help attributing the quotes below to this book. I am the author.
Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7200...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7140...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7307...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7172...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7140...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7172...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7140...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7240...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7271...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7271...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7172...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7240...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7200...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7240...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7200...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7140...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7139...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7172...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7172...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7212...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7337...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7373...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7373...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7139...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7307...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7139...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7140...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7172...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7172...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7172...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7172...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7172...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7200...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7212...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7212...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7240...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7240...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7373...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7373...
This quote by Marie de France should be deleted: "Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent". https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...It is often attributed to her online but I have not found any trustable source. Most importantly, the words sexist and homophobic were both coined in the 20th century, so I don't think a 12th century poet could have used them.
hahahaha Good point.I tried to delete it, but I couldn't, only a superlibrarian can delete quotes with many likes. Someone will delete it.
Hello,I am the author of the quotes and book below. I would like to link a book to some quotes and also edit a quote. Please link the quotes listed below to this book:
Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7140...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7140...
Please correct a typo in this quote with the spelling of the word "related":
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7443...
Error in Quote: The quality of the results you get in life is directly relate(s)
Correction: The quality of the results you get in life is directly related to the quality of the effort you put into the process.
Thanks for your help with this
Jaime wrote: "This quote by Marie de France should be deleted: "Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent". https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...It is often attributed to her online but I have not found any trustable source. Most importantly, the words sexist and homophobic were both coined in the 20th century, so I don't think a 12th century poet could have used them. "
I've attributed it to George Weinberg who is a more likely candidate. He has claimed to have invented the term "homophobia" which is certainly not true. The OED has references going back to 1920. What he did is to reuse an old word in the new, gay, context.
Rafael, you shouldn't try to delete a quote simply because it is reported to be misattributed. Finding the correct person (or at least a more correct person) is a better idea.
Edit: the quote is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2569...
Banjomike wrote: "Rafael, you shouldn't try to delete a quote simply because it is reported to be misattributed. Finding the correct person (or at least a more correct person) is a better idea."You are right.
Hello,I made an error when submitting this quote:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1031...
Is it possible to edit "goal an seeker" to "goal and seeker"?
Thank you.
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