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Did the combining policy change?
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No, the parts shouldn't be combined with the full work.Are you sure it was a librarian? Goodreads has been combining all sorts of things inappropriately... even completely different works because they have the same title!
Yes, I've checked the changelog and it was a librarian.
I don't trust the log. It will say that I changed the description when I didn't do anything to that. Most of the time it is the bots changing it when I combined editions. That is why we have so many language issues. There really needs to be a button where a you can say to never use as the default. We are supposed to have to click it, but that isn't always the case. I also figured out it will say that I changed a librarian log when I didn't. I couldn't figure out why it said I had edits in the middle of the night on days where I had actually stopped early. Then I noticed that people who hadn't been active for years had the same messages.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2410...I'm talking about this series. The split editions are now separated as they were before. Originally, there were six books, two for each part of the series. According to the changelog, they were all combined with their respective full editions by the same librarian. I highly doubt it was done by a bot."
It's possible they may have hit the auto-combine button on the combine page and didn't notice there were split editions that were affected. I've seen that happen to other librarians before.
I was about to add an edition that is Part 1 of the book. I know that previously all the split editions were added separately, but now I’ve noticed that they have been combined with the full books (for example, Part 1 and Part 2 of Book 1 are now combined into Book 1). Did the librarian who made this change violate a policy, or has there been a change to the rules that I’m not aware of?
I don’t have much experience as a librarian, so I wanted to double-check before making any changes back.