Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 2)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Fixed.

[Inkling]

rivka wrote: "Fixed."

Thanks rivka.

It looks like you missed one word; please add "fast." to the end of quote 3: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/...

So it reads:

“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast."

Thank you very much!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Done.

[Heather]

Quote from a television show.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Gone.

[Keith]

This one seems to need higher privileges than Super to fix.

Per this writeup by The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, this quote about success with 13K+ likes, was actually written by Bessie Anderson Stanley and published near an essay by Emerson (hence perhaps the popular misattribution) in Heart Throbs Volume 2 , edited by Joe Mitchell Chapple.

A librarian prior to me attempted to apply the update without the source being properly entered in the system. I have updated the source records, but still cannot change the attribution on the quote. I did, at least, manage to combine the ten or so existing variants, though they will surely reappear.

[lafon حمزة]

422 is done.

[Outis]

This quote is missing "was" (after the second word) and I can't edit it or recreate it with the missing word.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/...
Sorry about that.

[[deleted user]]

Fixed.

[Britt]

Hi, I recently added a quote from one of my books by mistakenly putting the book after my author name. I have since added the quote again with just my author name, so it links directly to the appropriate page.

Now this strange page exists...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Can this be deleted along with the quote attached to it?

Here is the page showing both quotes (I would only like to keep the one with Britt Skrabanek as the author)
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/searc...

Thank you!

[Melody]

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...

Put your request to merge your two profiles on the above discussion and Rivka will merge them. Has to be a Goodread's employee who does this.

[Britt]

OK, thanks!

[Banjomike]

Whitney wrote: "Also, while I like the quote, and her post, I don't think Amelia Olson is anyone notable. Does that mean the quote shouldn't be here in the first place?"

Probably. While it was misattributed to Zooey Deschanel it was safe. Now we know who really said it, doomed. There is a moral there, somewhere.

[Banjomike]

424 done.

[Banjomike]

#426 done

[Amara]

429 fixed.

[Amanda]

Got 432

[C.]

Hello, could someone kindly delete this quote:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/60403...

Something that I said that was added by my dear moderator (sometimes I have someone moderate just my GR account, in case I really need to be away); however, I had no intentions of adding that piece of writing here. My apologies for the inconvenience, but I would really appreciate the help. Just delete the whole thing, thank you very much.

C. JoyBell C.

[Banjomike]

Whitney wrote: "Thanks! Haha, regarding 421, is there no way to remove Zooey Deschanel from the quote and add Amelia Olson, or delete it altogether? I don't like that it's even out there attributed to her. Poor Am..."

Deleted. To add Amelia Olson she would need to be an author or a "notable" person.

[Banjomike]

434 deleted

[C.]

Banjomike wrote: "434 deleted"

Thank you very much! I wish you a good day!

[vicki_girl]

430 is fixed.

[Gerd]

Needs some corrections by a Super:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/25718...

“You're dangerous."he says.
Why?"
Because you make me believe in the impossible.”

[Banjomike]

440 edited to:

“You’re dangerous,” he says.
“Why?”
“Because you make me believe in the impossible”

[Lynxie]

Hi guys, could you please fix this quote I put in wrong. *grumbles*

It is meant to be from Black Oil, Red Blood by Diane Castle, but I read the clippings entry wrong on my kindle!

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Fixed.

[Lynxie]

Thanks rivka :D

[Ellie]

Should this http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/43490... be merged with http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/40844...? I'm not really familiar with the quote policies but the first one is basically the second one leaving out exactly two words.

[Melody]

Yes. I got it. And found some others too.

[Ellie]

Thanks a million!

[Kaz]

I just added a quote but typed the author name in Japanese. Would you kindly change the author name to "Mari Yonehara" from Japanese character?

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/612736

Thank you.

[Yossarian]

Done.

[Banjomike]

448 done

[Kaz]

Thanks, Banjomike!

[Jules]

I messed up the author and title adding a quote. Yeah, not my best move. Could some one fix it for me? Pretty please!

http://www.goodreads.com/user_quotes/...

It should be Genevieve Pearson, Revelations.

[lafon حمزة]

Fixed. It's ok, I have problems with quotes too.

[Jules]

Thanks!

[Gerd]

Could a Super correct the quote by Rosemarie Urquico?

"...
Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
..."

I'm pretty sure the last sentence from that snippet has to be:

"Ask her if she loves Alice or if she would like to be Alice."

[Melody]

Can you add a link?

[Gerd]

Sorry, here's the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/43751...

[Melody]

got it

[Gerd]

Thanks!

[Banjomike]

Re: the Rosemarie Urquico quote. I remember this one when it first started going the rounds. As far as I can remember it had the "loves Alice or she would like to be Alice" version of the text and not this tweaked version. Google lists 276,000 pages with the original text and 32 with the "corrected" version. The version as edited certainly scans better but should the (possibly) original version be used?

[Melody]

I really have my doubts about it even being on here since it's not by an author or even a notable person.

[Banjomike]

Maybe. It is a good quote. That is notable.

[Gerd]

Banjomike wrote: "The version as edited certainly scans better but should the (possibly) original version be used?"

Good question, unfortunately the orignal post seems to exist no longer. The evils vagaries of the intarwebs.

[Banjomike]

Gerd wrote: "Good question, unfortunately the orignal post seems to exist no longer. The evils vagaries of the intarwebs."

She closed her blog.

[Keith]

Banjomike wrote: "She closed her blog."

So, her blog is dead, and she never wrote any books, and there are already 276,032 copies of her lengthy, marginally-verifiable quote elsewhere on the interwebz. Does it really need to be on Goodreads?

If it were up to me, I'd delete not only the quote, but the whole 'author' profile, and I'd rather not take such drastic action (even if Super permissions allow for it) unilaterally without some consensus behind it. I may be arrogant and elitist, but I'm not crazy. ;-)

IMHO, our quote database should rest on the core of the purpose of the site: published sources that are or were in print, verified against the printed form. If it ain't published, it ain't for us: viz 'NOT A BOOK'. But mine may not be the universal view, and I have no idea what Otis thinks of the matter.

[Melody]

I agree Keith.

[Vicky]

Re: Rosemarie Urquico

It seems to me that this isn't so much a quote as it is a copy and past of an entire blog post?

If we don't allow complete poems... should we allow a complete blog post?