Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 6)

[Avi]

This quote is taken entirely out of context to distort its meaning to the opposite of what is said. Could someone fix it?
See original

"It is a gross canard to state that education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent because we know that the students are far from ignorant."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11...

See the version on Goodreads

“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8506...

[Meghan]

Hi there, I created this quote and very unfortunately wrote the word "provide" instead of "prove." Would someone please help me edit this quote? It is also weirdly associated with an audiobook version of Return of the King when it should be associated with a paperback. Very much appreciate the help!

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1099...

[Marielle]

Superlibrarian needed for this, my puny librarian powers are useless:

This is incorrectly attributed to Cicero, who left behind many textual works, none of which contain this quote:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5621...

Quote investigator says it's derived from a quote from the early 1900s in which a writer summarises the contents of an Assyrian tablet seen in a museum in Constantinople, and was probably made up to begin with. Definitely NOT Cicero.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10...

[Mike_G]

Hi, looking for librarian assistance.

Request to delete quotes

Hello. Can you please remove quotes attributed to The King Who Disappeared – Hank Quense, as they are actually from a different book and were added to this book by mistake. I have deleted them from my quotes but they are still showing on the book quotes.

The following need to be removed.
From the scene arrayed before her now, Tsula knows this new body means something entirely different. The tight bunchings of onlookers in hushed conversation. The watery eyes and mouths covered by fingers. This is how people gather when the dead is one of their own.

The current needs of survival leave little time for luxuries like sentimentality. It is, he figures, a kind of mercy. No time to dwell on what was lost when there is more yet to protect.

Junior finds what he’s seeking in a swale between two ridges. He glasses down at the elk from a hillside aflame with autumn color. The animal strides through the clearing about five hundred yards due east, dipping its head now and then to nibble on receding grass that soon will disappear for the winter.

In the years that followed, Tsula would find that she could not recall that walk to the edge or the thrust of her legs into the air. Her clearest memory more than twenty years later is of the long, breathless wait as she fell, seemingly forever, and the water swallowing her at last. When she burst from its surface, unhurt, her mind noisy and electric, she grabbed for Jamie and kissed him hard.

Harlan chuckles to himself and shakes his head, as though enjoying a joke only he has heard. ‘Now I guess it’s only fair to warn you,’ he says. ‘This is not going to go the way you want it to.’

“Tsula and Abbott spy the cabin in a clearing beyond the trees. It appears almost spectral through the gossamer mist—at first, just a hint of a shape. A blocky shadow rising from the ground.

[xi]

Hello!

I recently made a quote but I mistyped the name Baelish in the tags (I wrote Baelis). Is there any way to get that edited? Thank you!

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1099...

[Marielle]

Xiin wrote: "Hello!

I recently made a quote but I mistyped the name Baelish in the tags (I wrote Baelis). Is there any way to get that edited? Thank you!

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1099......"

done

[Marielle]

Meghan wrote: "Hi there, I created this quote and very unfortunately wrote the word "provide" instead of "prove." Would someone please help me edit this quote? It is also weirdly associated with an audiobook vers..."

done

[Marielle]

Avi wrote: "This quote is taken entirely out of context to distort its meaning to the opposite of what is said. Could someone fix it?
See original

"It is a gross canard to state that education is the inculcat..."

I've changed the quote's author to "unknown" as the "corrected" version is also of questionable origin according to the Quote Investigator post.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Since quotes on Goodreads must have an author who meets the notability standard, they should not have Unknown as their author (unless they come from a specific book for whom Unknown the is correct author on Goodreads).

Quote deleted.

[Clare]

Hi folks,

I am working my way through cleaning up quotes about Ireland. This one is a couple of words which make no sense - someone probably hit enter too quickly.


“restrictions in their”
― Heather Laskey, Children of the Poor Clares: The Collusion Between Church and State That Betrayed Thousands of Children in Ireland's Industrial Schools
0 likes

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...

Could that be deleted please.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...

Next Time Lucky Quotes Showing 1-1 of 1
“Don't become a grumpy old dater! Life ids for living, laughing and loving!Stop searching, start finding!”
― Siggy Buckley, Next Time Lucky: Confessions Of Dating Guru
tags: dating, ireland, love, mr-right0 likesLike

Should read,

“Don't become a grumpy old dater! Life is for living, laughing and loving! Stop searching, start finding!”

Thanks.

[Clare]

Working my way through quotes about Dublin. More one-word quotes which should be removed, please.
1
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...
Jack Dillon Dublin Tales, Volumes 1-7 Quotes Showing 1-1 of 1
“apparently”
― Mike Faricy, Jack Dillon Dublin Tales, Volumes 1-7

2
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...
“branches”
― Tana French, The Likeness

3 This one also seems too short to be any use.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...
“chicken fillets from the freezer,”
― Tana French, The Likeness
0 likes

4
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...
“fridge”
― Tana French, Broken Harbour
0 like

5
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...
Broken Harbor Quotes Showing 61-74 of 74
“simian,”
― Tana French, Broken Harbor
0 like


6 And this one could be removed or shortened to end after the period.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...

“princess. You’d have brought her the moon. Her or me, did”
― Tana French, Broken Harbor
0 likes

[Clare]

This one isn't a quote, it's an ad for a book. And by anon.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear...

“you don't want to wait until May, read The Gathering --which won the 2007 Booker Prize--about a family (eight kids!) returning to Dublin for the wake of their brother Liam. ”
― Anonymous
0 likes


Same page, another anon. I am not sure what gets done with these. Google doesn't immediately find the quote.

“Dublin is following in the footsteps of Portugal and Italy in issuing 30-year debt at a time when yields on eurozone bonds are hitting record lows following the European Central Bank’s decision to begin a €60bn-a-month government bond-buying programme. Portugal sold €2bn of its long-dated bond at a yield of 4.13 per cent, while Italy’s €6.5bn equivalent bond was priced to yield 3.29 per cent. Investor appetite for longer-term bonds has increased in recent months as yields on shorter-term debt fall, in some cases trading in negative territory. According to JPMorgan, the total universe of government bonds trading with a negative yield was $3.6tn last week, or 16 per cent of the JPM Global Government Bond index.”
― Anonymous

[Clare]

More too-brief to be any use quotes.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...

“Can I ask – John Baylor. What was your”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Day That Never Comes
0 likesLike

“Irish public. What”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Day That Never Comes
0 likes

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...

“recusants”
― David Dickson, Dublin: The Making of a Capital City
0 likesLike

“sodality”
― David Dickson, Dublin: The Making of a Capital City
0 like

[Clare]

Another one-word quote.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...

In Dublin's Fair City Quotes Showing 1-1 of 1
“much”
― Rhys Bowen, In Dublin's Fair City
0 likes

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...

“other”
― Tana French, Faithful Place
0 like

[Arenda]

#312-316 done, except the second part of #314, as that quote is no longer on that page

For future requests, it would be easier when the link is to the page with just the problematic quote. I could not find all quotes on the links you provided, since quotes might have been added or deleted since you posted, but was able to find them from the author's page of quotes.
The link to go to the quote page (I admit it is not very obvious), is the "0 likes" (or any other number of likes) from the list of quotes from a book or by an author or from search results.

[Clare]

Thank you Arenda! I will try that next time.

[Clare]

More too-short ones.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1088...

“We”

― Brittney Sahin, The Inside Man


https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1072...

“But you’ve seen plenty of her, from your”

― Tana French, Broken Harbor

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1042...

“maybe everyone will start believing me about the mysterious”

― Tana French, The Likeness

This does not look like a genuine quote.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1023...

“I have had a brief read of your book....it brought back a lot of memories.”

― Team Aviation Zorro, Dublin
Read more quotes from Team Aviation Zorro, Dublin

This is clearly not an author.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

TEAM AVIATION ZORRO, DUBLIN’S BOOKS
Average rating: 0.0 · 0 ratings · 0 reviews · 0 distinct works
Team Aviation Zorro, Dublin hasn't written any books
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

QUOTES BY TEAM AVIATION ZORRO, DUBLIN
“I have had a brief read of your book....it brought back a lot of memories.”
― Team Aviation Zorro, Dublin
0 likesLike

[Clare]

This set of quotes, for some reason coming up when I ask about Dublin. I don't see that the quotes related to the author, who wrote about Vietnam in 1969. Looks more like adverts or a twitter feed.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...

“More Points In The Tier 1 Uk Visa System Helps People Enter Into The Country
#ukimmigrationlawyernewyork”
― Jack Head
0 likesLike

“Then a person more time to join the British Pub Hub or the Dublin Literary Pub Crawl. It falls under the SEGS, or science and engineering graduates scheme. Their degrees actually are available for immediate sale.
#ukspousevisanewyork”
― Jack Head
0 likesLike

“There likewise the advisory given by UK's Migration Advisory Board. Once approved, he then sponsors his dependents to join him. Cause why this is possible could be because of the Tier 1 UK visa system.
#ukimmigrationessex”
― Jack Head
0 likesLike

“Uk Tier 5 Visa Program Is Often A Points-Based Opportunity
#ukimmigrationessex”
― Jack Head

Here is the supposed author.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

[Clare]

This is an ISBN not a quote, so I don't believe it belongs with quotes.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1053...

“978-1-4299-4129-7”

― Neil Hegarty, The Story of Ireland: A History of the Irish People

[Clare]

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7260...

Nicholas Evans > Quotes > Quotable Quote
Nicholas Evans
“plight”

― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9432...
Anna Sewell > Quotes > Quotable Quote
Anna Sewell
“horses.”

― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Clare wrote: "This one looks like an advert for a service."

Goodreads Librarians are not employees of Goodreads, but volunteers. They cannot assist you with spam. You'll need to use the Contact Us link on the Help page, or flag the item(s) of concern.

[Clare]

Thanks, Rivka.

[Manon]

Hello, I was unfortunately unfocused and mistyped the following quote:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1101...

The second sentence should be "Je veux être celle sur laquelle m'appuyer quand je coule."

Could a librarian correct it? Than you very much in advance!

[Arenda]

#325 done

[Vaishnaa]

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...

This quote is actually by Ted Grant, the photographer, ( https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... )
not the Ted Grant who is the author of Russia. Please help to correct it. I am unable to edit the quote. Thank you.

[Arenda]

#327 done

[Vaishnaa]

Arenda wrote: "#327 done"

Thank you Arenda :)

[Philip]

Please edit this quote that has a typo:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1091...

The typo is in the last sentence. I currently says "is feels good," but should say "it feels good."

It should read:
It's a weird feeling, scientific breakthroughs. There's no Eureka moment. Just a slow, steady progression toward a goal. But man, when you get to that goal it feels good.

[Arenda]

#330 done

[Philip]

Thank you!

[Emily]

Grace wrote: "Hello, my name is Grace Thangavelu, and I just made a quote up and posted it to Goodreads."

Sorry Grace, you have to be an author quoting your text or otherwise meet Goodreads guidelines for notability to have a quote.
Generally, a person is notable if they have been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Quotes that do not meet the notability guideline have been removed.

[readerofbooks]

Hello Librarians, I hope you can help me out. I'm a VA for H.S. Howe, and have been making Goodreads Quotes for all of their books.

For the first time, I've had problems with the tags. My guess is that one time I spelled their book title incorrectly down in the tags, so now it keeps using those specific tags.

But I saw the incorrect spelling of the book title and removed the quote and tried to make it again. The issue is it's automatically added that wrong spelling again and again, no matter how many times I try to write the right spelling and with different tags, finding new words to use except for the book title and the author name. I've waited several days before trying again, and manually typing in different words in the tags, but it still does the same thing.

Then another problem is, some of those quotes can't be deleted. I've clicked 'remove' on them, but they're still there. I logged out of my account to go and check the author's Goodreads page and on their "Willfully Wanton" book page, down by the quotes, the removed quotes are still there, even though I clicked to remove them. And now the 'remove' button isn't there anymore when I click on the individual quotes, where you usually always have the option of clicking 'remove'. The quotes are there, and they are in my "in my quotes" section as well.

So I write the correct tags manually, but once I've clicked "post" then when the page is refreshed, it's incorrectly spelled again!!! I'm so confused about this.

So could you please edit these 6 quotes, because I can't do it myself? Change it from "Wilfully Wanton" to the correctly spelled "Willfully Wanton"?

All 6 of these quotes, please: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/...



And then, since I couldn't add any new quotes from the book without it automatically going back to the wrong spelling, I waited a few days and then made some quotes WITHOUT writing the book title, but I would love if you could add the book title in these 3 quotes in the tags, please? The book title is "Willfully Wanton."

1) https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1102...

2) https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1102...

3) https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1102...



Lastly, will you please delete this 1 quote?
(I removed it myself, but went to check and I can just still see it is there. And there is no option to click 'remove' again.

1) https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1102...

If you help me, then thank you SO SO SO much. I appreciate it greatly. :)

[Arenda]

#338 done

"Remove" relates to the "My Quote" section of your profile. Only Librarians can delete quotes. I've merged the duplicate quote into the other version of the same quote.

Please remember that the correct punctuation for author names on GR is to include a period after each initial. Amazon has the author listed as H.S Howe (missing the period after the S), which is not according to GR policy and will create a second author profile when books are imported from Amazon to GR.

[readerofbooks]

Arenda wrote: "#338 done

"Remove" relates to the "My Quote" section of your profile. Only Librarians can delete quotes. I've merged the duplicate quote into the other version of the same quote.

Please remember ..."


Thank you so much, I will write them and tell them this.
Thanks so so much.

[user]

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9865...

Pretty sure that quote isn't in his diaries, at least not that specific phrasing. I have an ebook of the exact edition it's attributed to and and couldn't find any mention of it.

I would love to be proven wrong and directed towards the exact diary entry, because I think it's a lovely quote.

[Clare]

This is a Biblical quote, but the Bible version doesn't contain
"Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email"

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1187...

Some cleaning up required.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Isaac wrote: "Can you please delete the following quotes:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1039...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1039...-..."

Hi Isaac

Deleted at the request of the author (no likes)

[Clare]

Hi folks,
I just placed a quote but it did not get placed on the page of the correct version of the authorname.

Book it belongs to
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Author it belongs to - he must have a double space or something
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Author where the quote now appears
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

[Coco]

Hello,

I’m revamping my author profile in preparation for major changes. Please delete the following quotes. Thank you! <3

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7851...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7779...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7851...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8333...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7779...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7851...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8342...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9077...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7755...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7755...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7755...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7755...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7755...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7755...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9079...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7760...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7851...

[blanca]

Please delete this quote since has a mistake and it's duplicated, thank you!

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1100...

[Clare]

This is a one word quote, can be deleted.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9432...

This quote and this are the same, seem to be from different editions.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7410...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6915...

This one has the author's name included in the quote.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4927...

And it's almost identical to this one

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8115...

This one has Table of Content Part 1 at the end.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9898...

These are almost identical

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1063...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7676...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7445...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4358...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1003...

I think the last quote may have been used to preface a book or chapter, so that is why it shows up with a different author, as well as the original author's name inside the posted quote.

That one comes up a few more times:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1039...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1037...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1070...

[Clare]

One word quotes

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7596...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7976...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9081...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7435...

A couple of partial phrases, could be edited or blended into larger.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7211...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7976...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7976...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1163...

[Orphée]

Hello,
could you please edit this quote : https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1107...

for :

Mehrâb tient derrière le voile une fille dont le visage est plus beau que le soleil. Elle est de la tête aux pieds comme de l'ivoire, ses joues sont comme le paradis, sa taille est comme un platane [sâj]. Sur son cou [épaule] d'argent tombent deux boucles musquées, dont les bouts sont courbés comme des anneaux de pied. Sa bouche [ses joues] est comme la fleur du grenadier, ses lèvres sont comme des cerises, et de son buste d'argent s'élèvent deux pommes de grenade. Ses deux yeux sont comme deux narcisses dans un jardin, ses cils ont emprunté leur couleur de l'aile du corbeau, ses deux sourcils sont comme un arc de Tharâz, couvert d'une écorce colorée délicatement par le musc. Si tu vois la lune, c'est son visage ; si tu sens le musc, c'est le parfum de ses cheveux. C'est un paradis orné de toutes parts rempli de grâces, d'agréments et de charmes.

thanks !

[Kristiana]

Hello, would you delete this quote, I will reupload it correctly (regarding the lines).

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1107...

[Clare]

Please delete one word quote

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7216...

[Clare]

1 Please remove the edition and kindle page numbering from this quote.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7032...

2 This one is attributed to Cleeves Ann when it should be Ann Cleeves.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9919...

3 So this gives us a wrongly placed book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

4 by a wrongly named author.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

5 Second quote attributed to that misnamed author, book not provided.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1062...

[Clare]

Please merge:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1361...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1361...

Crediting: motto is incorrectly spelt as mottow in one case.

[Clare]

These seem to be quotes by readers about books, not from books.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1090...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8595...

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

I'm going to try to attend to some of these requests. I'm not going back further than #341, so if any have been missed, please post again giving the message #. Please don't delete posts - it makes these long threads very confusing.

#341 This will need to wait for a Kafka expert. I've looked in both of my books of quotes & the quote isn't there. looking online one otherwebsite says it is from his diaries 1910-1923. Can anyone confirm.
#342 I'm getting page not found. Can another librarian take a look at this? Edit: a Super confirmed this one has been done.
#343/344 I had already done. Just noting here to avoid confusion.
#345 Yes, your author has the two space profile. In future, please don't put the title of the book in your quote. A selection of books will come up after you enter the author name .:)
#346 Erica. I have hopefully deleted all the quotes with 0 likes. There were a couple that show having 1 like but I can't see the name of the person who liked them. Another librarian may be able to advise, but I am taking it that the member recently removed the quote off their list so I might be able to delete in a couple of days. I cannot delete quotes with likes. If I missed any with 0 likes let me know in this thread. For future requests please number the quotes (or anything else) & put a line break after every fifth one.

#347 done