The pinyin is changing when I use bulk upload

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There are two ways of typing pinyin in Chinese. One is to display accents over the vowels to denote the tone of that syllable, and the other is to represent those tones with numbers at the end of each syllable. I prefer the first of those two and I used bulk upload to upload words that use that kind of pinyin into my course. Some of those words must have been present in other courses because those ones have more columns filled out. In these cases, they overrode the pinyin that I had typed and used the pinyin that existed in the other course. So, instead of displaying the pinyin with accents on the vowels, they are displaying the pinyin with numbers after the syllable. This seems like a bug to me.

The course in which this happened is http://www.memrise.com/course/1094612/hsk-si-ji-shu-xie-yu-kou-yu

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The usual cause of this is that Memrise tries to match the words you entered with its (Chinese) database. To get around that, don’t use that database, i.e. create your own database (best probably), or (dirty workaround) temporarily have the course teach another language while you add the words, then change back.

I agree it’s a bug in that Memrise should not override what you pasted.