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message 1: by Michael (last edited Apr 26, 2020 06:26AM) (new)

Michael | 254 comments I see quite a lot of "quotes" which are single words. Sometimes these are more unusual words that, perhaps, a GR user wants to remember, whilst often they are quite common words - I've seen 'the' "quoted" before now.

I feel that single word quotations should probably be deleted, particularly the banal ones, as the intent of the feature is not (I think) lexicographal. However, I do understand that somebody else may be getting some use from the practice of saving certain words.

Is there any policy or best practice about this? Can, or rather, should, they be deleted?

A few examples (They're all Frank Herbert as I'm reading Dune):
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9242...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9256...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9244...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9246...


message 2: by rivka, Former Moderator (last edited Apr 26, 2020 11:35AM) (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
It's fine to delete single-word quotations.


message 3: by Michael (new)

Michael | 254 comments rivka wrote: "It's fine to delete single-word quotations."

Thank you.


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