You wrote you don't want the instructions to become too 'wordy', but perhaps it would be worthwhile adding something like
When it concerns a translated edition, always try and find the original work (or other already existing editions) on Goodreads, enabling us to combine the transpation with its parent-work.
It could, for instance, go in the PLEASE DO-section...
I'm used to write this as a tip whenever I report a topic for a translated edition as [Done] and today someone replied, asking to incorporate this in the template.
Another suggestion:
You wrote you don't want the instructions to become too 'wordy', but perhaps it would be worthwhile adding something like
When it concerns a translated edition, always try and find the original work (or other already existing editions) on Goodreads, enabling us to combine the transpation with its parent-work.
It could, for instance, go in the PLEASE DO-section...
I'm used to write this as a tip whenever I report a topic for a translated edition as [Done] and today someone replied, asking to incorporate this in the template.
See here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...