Pseudo Neruda

[Neva]

Hi.
I have searched everywhere both in Spanish and in English where this quote comes from:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5737...
And there is no sign that it is by Neruda, one cannot even find it in a longer text: it is just this meme-type phrase, quoted all over the Web.
If there is no serious source for it (and I cannot find none), it should be deleted here (but I am not allowed to do it).
Here it goes also in Spanish: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6259...
Same problem, false attribution.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Neva wrote: "Hi.
I have searched everywhere both in Spanish and in English where this quote comes from:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5737...
And there is n..."

Sorry Neva

I can't find anything that says that this isn't a Neruda quote.

There has been at least two different Supers in this folder recently & I'm assuming they also don't feel comfortable dealing with it.

You could try Support (Staff) https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

[Neva]

Hi, Carol :)
The thing is to prove that this IS a Neruda quote.
Neruda is a hugely popular poet, his works are present in all languages on line, I've searched both in English and in Spanish, and there is NO trace of a poem or anything else by him where these words could be from. They are contained only in memes around the social media. Which typically is a bad sign.
Any quote should be retraceable to an origin. Much more so in Goodreads. If it is not, it shouldn't be considered serious, it is most probably a fake.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Neva wrote: "Hi, Carol :)
The thing is to prove that this IS a Neruda quote.
Neruda is a hugely popular poet, his works are present in all languages on line, I've searched both in English and in Spanish, and th..."

Oh, I totally agree with you! Quotes need a lot of work - for example the merge function has been broken for most librarians for at least 11 years (there was a librarian who has now left who said it wasn't broken for her)

But I have never read Neruda & I don't speak Spanish.

The English language version has 493 likes. When it gets to 500 likes only Supers will be able to deal with it, so I won't be able to help even if I wanted to. The most I can do is added tag like "attributed to Neruda No Source" that would at least show that it is questionable at best. If I deleted it there is nothing to stop members re-adding it.

Support only offer ...well.. support in English, but I do believe they have some Spanish speaking staff.

Please contact them at the link I gave in Message #2. & ask them to post in this thread with their decision. :)

In case you don't realise this Librarians are volunteers. I think Staff should rule on this. :)

[Neva]

Hey, Carol, thanks for the reply and the explanation.
I think the tag "no source" is a great idea. Because Goodreads is literally spreading misinformation adding anything written by anybody and not requiring a source.
I will check the link you gave me. (I am a small local Librarian as well, a voluntary. In real life I work with quotes constantly, and I am very aware that a quote without a source is nothing... Now we are the trusted source, and that's a problem.)
Best!
N

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Neva wrote: "Hey, Carol, thanks for the reply and the explanation.
I think the tag "no source" is a great idea. Because Goodreads is literally spreading misinformation adding anything written by anybody and not..."

You are so correct & it is of great concern to me.

In the meantime the likes on the English language one have increased & soon I won't be able to edit so I have added the tag we discussed. I have also added it to the Spanish language version.

I don't know how much Staff work with quotes other than removing the endless spam & self promotion - which would be such a discouraging task. :/