Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Hi everyone,

I recently noticed that the "change comment" field is also listed as a "denotes required field" when editing a book.

However, when browsing the "recent librarian edits" page, very few people seem to add any comment in that field about the changes to the book.

Why is that?

Looking forward to hearing from fellow Goodreads Librarians.

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend,

Trine :-)

It's a new field. It's not actually required, but they marked it that way to encourage librarians to explain their edits, particularly when there is a controversy.

Thank you so much! :D

I was just wondering if one had to add a comment or not as this seemed a bit repetitive for every book.

It would be nice if you were changing every edition of a book if there was a way to comment once for that book.

I would use it for anything important but when I'm just fixing something small, a spelling mistake or making a listing uniform I don't use it.
That would only serve to fill it up fast and then make other librarians have to trudge through all sorts of meaningless comments.

That would be nice, mlady_rebecca. Thanks for commenting on this topic. :D

Lol, I'd noticed that this required field, isn't.

That's a very good point, Eva. Also very good advice for editing books in the future. Thanks for commenting. :D

LOL - Thanks for commenting, SF SQRL. :D

I'm thinking it would be nice for the librarian comment to propagate throughout all editions for a book.

Thoughts?

Well...except sometimes they are edition-specific.

SF SQRL wrote: "Well...except sometimes they are edition-specific."

I hear ya, SQRL! Just noticed that the change comment DOES propagate throughout all editions. Very cool! I was changing a series to a uniformed name the author uses and DID NOT want to type the reason for my change each time.

When I went to look where I typed the reason and where I didn't, I couldn't see it UNTIL I clicked on the Librarian Change Log. There it was. Only need to type it once. Whew!

:-)

That's because the change log is only edition-specific if you select that (and the option didn't even exist until recently).

Thanks, Kathrynn, SF SQRL and Rivka. That's nice to know. :D

Would it be possible to allow BBC Code to be used when posting hyperlinks in the Change Comment Box?

Just a thought. :-)

Any reason not to use HTML? That's how the rest of the site works -- I haven't checked to see that it works in that spot.