Request: Could the no-links-in-description thing be fine-tuned?

[Liralen]

Background/context
Some time ago, the save settings for editing books were made more sensitive such that if a space is missing after a period, the system registers it as a link, and librarian edits can't be saved. While I don't mind deleting actual links (Forgotten Books, I'm looking at you), it's a bit tiresome to be trying, for example, to mark a series of blank notebooks as invalid and have to check the entire description on half the books for the six places where the original writer missed spaces. "Great Quality Blank Notebook.Use for all your journaling needs. 120 pages.Click to Buy Now."

Suggestion
Could this be tinkered with so that the system prevents you from saving on link-in-description grounds only if you've made any changes to the description? Or at the very least, that it doesn't prevent you from saving on those grounds if you're marking a book invalid or deleted?

(Apologies, Jaclyn)
I would email Support about this, but they would tell me to submit it as a suggestion in the Help Community, and then they'd tell me that it didn't meet guidelines and hadn't been posted.

[Renske]

With notebooks or such, I don't try to fix the description, I used delete it.

But otherwise, I agree, this setting causes a lot of work. It feels I come across more missing spaces than actual links. This suggestion would at least some of it easier.

Also, it would be nice if there were some exceptions for valid words. I already mangled two descriptions where they used a.m. and p.m.

[Scott]

Thumbs up for this.

I either delete the description entirely or abandon the request. I don't have time to proofread and correct every sentence because authors don't understand basic typing rules.

[Liralen]

I'll delete the description for blank notebooks as a last resort, but I don't like removing valid data even on an invalid 'book', if that makes sense.

I would also be perfectly fine with descriptions that include this sort of 'link' not being imported in the first place...though I understand that bot fixes are wishful thinking these days.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Liralen wrote: "I would also be perfectly fine with descriptions that include this sort of 'link' not being imported in the first place...though I understand that bot fixes are wishful thinking these days."

Yes. It is beyond irony that it is 100% OK for the bot to import these not allowed descriptions, but when we try to clean up their other messes, we are hampered in doing so.

[lethe]

I sometimes even get the error message when I'm trying to add ACE notes to the description, so I am all for fine-tuning.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

lethe wrote: "I sometimes even get the error message when I'm trying to add ACE notes to the description, so I am all for fine-tuning."

Oh, yeah. You can't add a link to Goodreads.

[Jaclyn, Librarian Program Manager]

That sounds like a pain - I'll submit a request!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Jaclyn wrote: "That sounds like a pain - I'll submit a request!"

Thanks, Jaclyn. But the priority should be to stop the bot from further detriment to the catalog.

[Jaclyn, Librarian Program Manager]

Let's keep this thread on-topic. I'll close it to further comments and re-open when I hear feedback.