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Can you not save the edits anyway? I know you can when the error is for a 294 ISBN.
it doesn't save them. You have to put a space after the period in my experience anyhow.
I came to this thread from another post. The edits were definitely saved or I could not have looked at the edition - which included periods without spaces following.
C. wrote: "Maybe she cancelled because she couldn't save it and we are seeing the PRE still"Well, it has periods in it - a.k.a. - so if you can't save a description with periods in it, then I wouldn't be able to see it, would I?
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "C. wrote: "Maybe she cancelled because she couldn't save it and we are seeing the PRE still"Well, it has periods in it - a.k.a. - so if you can't save a description with periods in it, then I wou..."
If it was already saved, it reverts to whatever was there, even if it had periods. It's very confusing. I have found this repeatedly with the reprint house editions. If it had a hyperlink, and you don't save it, you loose your other changes, but the hyperlink stays.
I'm not sure I'm being clear.
In the examples I recalled in the first post, no, I could not save the text until I deleted the letters with the initials.edit: this is the link to the log for the first book I was trying to edit. Notice that the text where the name was written as "B.K.S. Iyengar" was never saved. (I tried a few times but always failed, then I had the idea to remove the initials)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/edits/...
Well, you're right. I hope they get that fixed before long, because it's wrong.
It's the periods, the system thinks its a link, so if you add initials as BKS Iyengar, you don't have a problem.It's been happening for a few days now already.
Sandra wrote: "It's the periods, the system thinks its a link, so if you add initials as BKS Iyengar, you don't have a problem.It's been happening for a few days now already."
Yes I got it now, but that's what bothers me. I don't want to waste time checking descriptions to delete initials... that are often perfectly fine and not spam links. This just makes librarians' lives harder.
I think they meant this filter to fight spam and that's ok, but it's too strict at the moment
Moloch wrote: "Sandra wrote: "It's the periods, the system thinks its a link, so if you add initials as BKS Iyengar, you don't have a problem.It's been happening for a few days now already."
Yes I got it now, ..."
I'm doing a lot of work with with reprints, and the bulk of them use a hyperlink to their site in the description. I usually try to delete them anyhow, but if I'm in a hurry I don't look... till it makes me.
To put it more clearly, I understand why links shouldn't be in the description, but I think they should refine this filter because as it is it gives false positives that cause more problems for the librarians.And it took me a while to figure out it was the initials that were causing the problem, I was scratching my head trying to understand what was wrong with my description: maybe others won't bother and will give up on their edit altogether.
Moloch wrote: "I understand why links shouldn't be in the description, but I think they should refine this filter because as it is it gives false positives that cause more problems for the librarians.."Yes, the error for links is totally acceptable - a good error check. It's that the parameters for checking are wrong or too broad.
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The problem is that the filter is maybe too strict, because in most cases the words preventing the edits to save were not links at all.
One time it was a name, B.K.S. Iyengar, and I had to remove the initials to make it work. Another time it was a common abbreviation, a.C. (that is BC, before Christ, in Italian).
In both cases I was able to edit the text without altering the meaning, but is it going to be this bothersome from now on, having to avoid initials and dots in the descriptions altogether?