Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

I searched for this quote by Epictetus, and GR gave three copies of it:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear...

Johnathan Haidt quoted Epictetus in his book, but Haidt is not the author of this quote, Epictetus is—so it should be attributed to Epictetus.

Kaylee wrote: "I searched for this quote by Epictetus, and GR gave three copies of it:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear......"

Hi Kaylee
I knew there had been discussion about quotes like this in the past.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The problem is I'm not sure how I handle it. &, to my surprise, both the Haidt 'quotes' have been added by different members.

I'll have to ask, sorry.

Thanks for looking into it.

Were you able to find out how these are handled?

Kaylee wrote: "Thanks for looking into it.

Were you able to find out how these are handled?"

No I haven't sorry, but I have just reread this part of the Librarians Manual again;

Quotes within a quote are permitted, although not when the quote contained is by another author and no additional context is added by the encompassing quote. In these cases the quote within the quote can be added on its own, with attribution given to the original author.

So to me that means if the quote had something like 'according to Herodotus' attached to it it would be fine - but it doesn't.

I'll take care of it now.

& done. :)