A place to view or search all Published Reviews

Currently the only place that Published Reviews can be viewed is on the individual work pages. This makes it hard for people to keep track of Published Reviews they have entered, and they get no notice if someone has deleted a Published Review that they entered.

Also, a lot of spam gets entered in the Published Review field, and the only way to find it is to stumble upon it accidentally or open up dozens of work pages and hope you get lucky.

It would be nice to have a Zeitgeist page that showed a list of Published Reviews, so that people can see what Published Reviews are being added, which ones they've added themselves, and watch out for spam.

Here are some older discussions of this topic, in the "Common Knowledge, WikiThing, HelpThing" group:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/102385
https://www.librarything.com/topic/296785

Yes, please!

Agreed

Hm, never actually thought about that. Makes sense though. +1

As aspirit mentions here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/333606 there are some typos in the review source dropdown that are being offered as autosuggestions, but there's no way to find where the typos are coming from without a place to view or search all published reviews.

Okay, this is a good idea. I'm trying to think of the best place for it. There are a few things here.

1. Place for all your published reviews
2. Add published reviews to site search
3. A running scroll of recently-added published reviews
4. Using published reviews in a more "explore this great stuff" context

1-3 are doable now, 4 is future work. Anyone have suggestions for where 1 and 3 should be?

>6 timspalding: #3 should definitely be in Zeitgeist. Maybe a sub-section of the "Reviews" page? (https://www.librarything.com/zeitgeist/reviews)
#1 maybe in stats & memes?

>6 timspalding:

#3 could be a third library-specific tab on the Reviews page for Published Reviews in Your Library
and also a global category in Zeitgeist: Reviews, discriminating Member Reviews and Published Reviews.

#1 is a little odd in the current site organization. Maybe a link from the Stats & Memes page?

Couldn't 3) go with things like recent reviews on the Home page?

>9 MarthaJeanne:

A Home page module would be a good additional location for that feed.

Bumping this as I found a bunch of spam in Published Reviews today.

Reminds me to go look at the Harry Potter movies, as that’s a favorite place for spam published reviews.

Bump, more spam in Published reviews.

What I'm wondering is that I entered published reviews and they disappeared from the work page. So... What happened??

>14 TayoNaLibrary:

Can you link to the page where you entered them?

And were they legit published reviews (as opposed to someone reviewing on Amazon or Goodreads, or personal blogs)?

>14 TayoNaLibrary: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/HelpThing:Work/Published_Reviews

Published reviews are Common Knowledge. Anyone can add them, anyone can remove them. Read through the HelpThing article above. Did you follow all the rules? If not, it beeded to be removed.

>14 TayoNaLibrary: Was it the full review? I removed one that quoted an entire review,instead of just excerpt

Another possibility is that a spammer added something to what you entered, or changed your entry. In that case whoever deleted the spam would have deleted the entire thing.