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Issues with Quotes
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Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 4)
Sonic Banana wrote: "Someone's left a couple of "quotes" on Kathleen Hale's page (the author of "Orlando the Marmalade Cat") thinking she is the other author of the same name.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1054...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3182...
You'd think they could tell the difference since this author died in 2000.
Anyway, needs to be deleted. Thanks!
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Not deleted. Just moved to correct author.
Banjomike wrote: "Sonic Banana wrote: "Someone's left a couple of "quotes" on Kathleen Hale's page (the author of "Orlando the Marmalade Cat") thinking she is the other author of the same name.https://www.goodread..."
Well I said deleted because they're not real quotes. I don't care for the author's behavior but she didn't actually say those things.
Thanks for getting them off the other author's page!
Sonic Banana wrote: "Well I said deleted because they're not real quotes. I don't care for the author's behavior but she didn't actually say those things.Thanks for getting them off the other author's page! "
"Everyone else is mean..." is from her book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
"Dom looks disgusted. “It’s not like you to be mean.”
“Mean?” I throw my hands up. “Everyone else is mean, okay? Not me. I’m just some nice girl trying to be nice.”"
The other one I'm not sure about. It was added by a librarian so I've messaged them to ask for the source.
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rivka wrote: "Edited the first for context and deleted the second."I didn't intend to edit the first one to the longer version. I was just proving that it really existed and was by that author. The second one we are well rid of, I think, but I'm still curious where it came from...
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Hi,I'm an author who's committed the sin of quoting his own work. Now that I see the error of my ways, I seek redemption but need an angel's help. Would you kindly remove the second and third quote from this page, please?
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
Thank you,
Kevin
113 Third quote is gone, the second quote is liked by 2 people, so that shouldn't be deleted.
Renske wrote: "113 Third quote is gone, the second quote is liked by 2 people, so that shouldn't be deleted."Thank you so much :-)
Lobstergirl wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1269...Very far from making sense...."
I asked the person who added another quote if she would tell me how she did it
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1349821
she said, "I have a kindle paper white and I highlighted it with my finger and then selected 'share.' I was doing this because 1Q84 has so many music references and I wanted to listen to them as I read, so I noted them and then made a playlist. If I just highlight, then they go to my kindle notes, but it is easier to find when I share (then I can just see the most recent on my goodreads page).
Makes sense to me. The Kindle has a highlight pen that automatically posts what you highlight on the Goodreads quote page. Obvious.
It might explain these
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1429...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1300...
I think the spammers are also using it
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3188...
I'll flag this last one.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3193...Quote should read Last time I had a bun in the oven, I had to give up whiskey. Worst twelve minutes of my life. Thank goodness those brown-and-serve rolls bake fast." - Father Glenn
Kindly someone edit the following qoute: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6147...
Put "made" instead of "make"
I have discovered—too late, sadly—that the field for "title" is reset when a captcha pops up. So, this is a list of quotes I've added which are inadvertently missing their source. Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3193...
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3193...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
William T. Vollmann, Europe Central
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3193...
Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
Don DeLillo, Underworld
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
Don DeLillo, Libra
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2506...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
Don DeLillo, White Noise
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
George Eliot, Middlemarch
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
Philip Roth, Operation Shylock: A Confession
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnger
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3191...
My apologies, and thank you very much!
Ashley E wrote: "This quote has likes, but should it be deleted anyway?https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1072..."
It looks like another one that might be attributed to the Kindle share option as per message #116-7 above and here (search on 'share a quote')
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/4...
it says "When you come across a quote that is meaningful or funny, you can now share it with Goodreads friends directly from within the book instead of forgetting about it later" except it doesn't share it with friend it adds it to the main database.
They seem to be doing exactly what they should do, so deleting is probably wrong. The idea is good, it is just that the results are visible everywhere rather than just to their 'Goodreads friends'.
Banjomike wrote: "Ashley E wrote: "This quote has likes, but should it be deleted anyway?https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1072..."
It looks like another one that might be attributed to the Kindle shar..."
Lovely... :(
Semi complicated request here (I think).There's two authors named Alexis Hall. All of the quotes under Alexis^Hall actually belong under Alexis^^Hall but it won't let me move them because already exist under the correct author as well. So ideally they would be merged but I don't know how to do that without first moving them.
Here's the pages for the quotes:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8758...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1232...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1177...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1254...
Julia ♥Duncan♥ wrote: "Semi complicated request here (I think).There's two authors named Alexis Hall. All of the quotes under Alexis^Hall actually belong under Alexis^^Hall but it won't let me move them because already..."
Done
Banjomike wrote: "Julia ♥Duncan♥ wrote: "Semi complicated request here (I think).There's two authors named Alexis Hall. All of the quotes under Alexis^Hall actually belong under Alexis^^Hall but it won't let me mo..."
Many thanks! :)
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3213...I added this quote just a few minutes ago, but when I filled in the captcha, it changed the book setting to "None" without me noticing... The quote is actually from "The Heavenly Twins" by Sarah Grand.
Please correct the typo in this quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9882...It should be "... the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle..."
Also, please delete the duplicate here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9882...
Martini wrote: "Please correct the typo in this quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9882... should be "... the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle..."Nice one. Done. I used to have a kettle which sounded more like a herd of bison than the soughing of the pines. The Japanese must have better kettles than the rest of us.
Banjomike wrote: "Nice one. Done. I used to have a kettle which sounded more like a herd of bison than the soughing of the pines. The Japanese must have better kettles than the rest of us."Thank you.
I would have liked to hear the sound of that kettle of yours - might be a great market niche: You will never fail to hear the cooking of the water when the kettle sounds like a herd of bovines.
I still would like to know what a herd of pines would look like, though...
When adding quotes really needs a preview feature. I double checked before posting but I must have missed something.One line in this quote is not supposed to be italicized.
"Tate thought, dropping the phone back to where it had been, as he lifted the bottle of Cuervo to his lips."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3218...
Fixed. One little missing /
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4501...Please add the tags: mindfulness,ecology,environmentalism and nature to this quote
I shared a quote. It went under the author quotes, not the book. The author is Mark Allen Smith. The quote is here:https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
Could you please move the quote under his book "The Inquisitor"?
Thank you!
Mari-Ann wrote: "I shared a quote. It went under the author quotes, not the book. The author is Mark Allen Smith. The quote is here:https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
Could you please..."
Thank you!
I post a quote but it doesn't show in the book page - the quote is“Come in. Sit anywhere but on the bed. Don't look cute, don't get undressed, and don't touch my underwear.”
Christina Lauren, Dirty Rowdy Thing
So please if you can correct that and delete this https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3224...
Thanks!
Javiera wrote: "I post a quote but it doesn't show in the book page - the quote is“Come in. Sit anywhere but on the bed. Don't look cute, don't get undressed, and don't touch my underwear.”
Christina Lauren, Dirty Rowdy Thing"
You added it with the author and book as one single field. I split it so it should be OK now.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3224...
Stephen wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4501...Please add the tags: mindfulness,ecology,environmentalism and nature to this quote"
Nope, sorry. That is a [Ominous Music] Quote of the Day.
Banjomike wrote: "Javiera wrote: "I post a quote but it doesn't show in the book page - the quote is“Come in. Sit anywhere but on the bed. Don't look cute, don't get undressed, and don't touch my underwear.”
Chri..."
Thanks! I follow the instructions and put the author and the title in the different fields but I don't know why when I save it they show in just one :/
"Stephen wrote: "Please add the tags: mindfulness... to a quote" Banjomike wrote: Nope, sorry. That is a [Ominous Music] Quote of the Day
Can you explain further? Is there some restriction with quotes that have been made "quote of the day?"
It would seem that if a quote is worthy of note, it should be tagged with plenty of keywords so that it comes up when people are looking for a quote on a particular topic.
Not complaining you understand just... "Inquiring minds want to know"
A QotD has no edit button unless you are a staff member. They cannot be touched by us plebs and even staff members make arcane warding gestures as they walk past them. There is a thread for requesting edits to them but to the best of my knowledge none have ever been acted upon apart from fixing a couple of duff punctuation errors.
Please delete this quote. It's attached to the wrong author. Thanks!https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3226...
Sharon wrote: "Please delete this quote. It's attached to the wrong author. Thanks!https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3226..."
I've moved it to Nick Drake of Things Behind The Sun fame.
Oh, even better! :) Thanks so much!
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3232...'Giddy was shouting at grief, calling him an asshole while giving him the finger.'
Not 'calling with'.
Please change, thank you! :)
Kellie-jayne wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3232...'Giddy was shouting at grief, calling him an asshole while giving him the finger.'
Not 'calling with'.
Please change, thank you! :) "
Done
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3232...is attributed to Anonymous, but actually comes from John C. Wright's blog post here:
http://www.scifiwright.com/2014/11/bu...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1363...This is a poem that contains a few lines from the Twilight books, and I don't think the person being quoted meets notability guidelines. Delete?
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You'd think they could tell the difference since this author died in 2000.
Anyway, needs to be deleted. Thanks!