[COMPLETE] Dates/Descriptions Deleted from Books

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A Goodreads librarian messed up and deleted the Original Publication Date and Default Description from some books on my shelf. They need to be restored as followed.

Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

- The Original Publication Date should be July 2003. I unfortunately can’t find a more specific date.

- There are several different editions of this book with different descriptions from different publishers, so I don't think setting a default description across all editions is the best move here; if the librarians disagree, let me know if you want the first edition description (even though it's out of print) or the most recent edition description.

Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

- The Original Publication Date should be February 16, 2018.

- The Default Description should be as follows:

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award-winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently served up tale after tale celebrating monstrosity in all its forms: the imperfect, the broken, the beautifully alien and the sadly familiar. Her characters make their own choices and take their own chances, slipping from darkness into deeper darkness yet never losing their humanity—not even when they’re anything but.

An embittered blood-servant plots revenge against the vampires who own him; a little girl’s best friend seeks to draw her into an ancient, forbidden realm; two monster-hunting sisters cross paths with an amoral holler-witch again and again, battling both mortal authorities and immortal predators. From the forgotten angels who built the cosmos to the reckless geniuses whose party drug unleashes a plague, madness, monsters and murder await at every turn. And in “The Speed of Pain,” sequel to the International Horror Guild award-winning story “The Emperor’s Old Bones,” we find that even those who can live forever can’t outrun their own crimes….

Following in the footsteps of her critically praised Kissing Carrion, The Worm in Every Heart and We Will All Go Down Together, this is the first of two new Gemma Files collections from Trepidatio Publishing, bringing together nine of her best stories from the past ten years. So whether you’re returning to Files’s dark dreamlands or visiting for the first time, we advise you to get ready to review the—

SPECTRAL EVIDENCE

[Scott]

I would not assume that a librarian did this intentionally. Many book edits result in unintended "side effects" that are the fault of the programming of the site. It looks like in both cases a combine was done, which somehow automatically affected the publication date and description.

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Scott wrote: "I would not assume that a librarian did this intentionally. Many book edits result in unintended "side effects" that are the fault of the programming of the site. It looks like in both cases a comb..."

Edited the thread title to reflect this. (If you want to correct the issues while you're in the thread, it would be very much appreciated!)

[Olga]

I've undone these changes.
Librarians can't automatically change different descriptions for all editions, even if they wanted to. That's not how it works. You have to manually check the "set as default" box for each edition.
There are some technical issues. As far as I noticed, if two editions have the same description, that description becomes the default description.
I usually put extra spaces so that all the descriptions are different, then after combining everything is fine.

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Thank you for your help!