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Book & Author Page Issues > description needs to be english

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message 1: by Helen (new)

Helen | 69 comments Not sure if this is an easy fix or not, 0141315121, Time stops for no mouse.

Book is in English but description isn't, think it's spanish. Can this be changed?


message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

Either someone got it already, or I pulled the wrong record. :)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...


message 3: by Lucia (new)

Lucia (luciavm) | 12 comments Hello! Hello Jeannette =)
Got it!! I think the language was indonesian ! lol


message 4: by [deleted user] (new)

Hi Lucia! We're being exposed to all sorts of new languages this way!


message 5: by Helen (new)

Helen | 69 comments Thanks, you guys are super!


message 6: by [deleted user] (new)

:)


message 7: by mlady_rebecca (new)

mlady_rebecca | 591 comments Is this policy written out somewhere? Seems like there have been more non-English default descriptions showing up lately. And, I believe all the ones I corrected were books first written in English.


message 8: by Michael (new)

Michael | 254 comments It's probably because the English descriptions for those books came from Amazon, so got deleted in the recent shenanigans, while the other language descriptions came from other sources, so became default by default.


message 9: by mlady_rebecca (new)

mlady_rebecca | 591 comments I would hope the scripts didn't just randomly pick a different edition to pull the default description, but you could be right.


message 10: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
It's not random, but it is most popular. Sometimes that's not the English edition. (And while we'd like it to choose the most popular English edition in most cases, language-recognition software is not reliable.)


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