Losing user added terms when going back to "Choose terms"

[Ainali]

I add some terms on step 4 and then press Lookup items to go to the next step.

If I am not satisfied when looking at the view "Handle results", I would like to go back to step 4 and add more terms or remove some, but if I navigate back, all user added terms disappear.

Expected behavior

The terms added by the user should persist when going back one step.

[dpriskorn]

Interesting use case. I can reproduce. I recommend adding the user terms to Wikidata as alias. I never use the user terms myself. I'm considering removing the possibility of adding user terms.

[Ainali]

My use case is if I have some narrow topic, I basically add all the forms of it (to use lexeme terms) as user terms. For example, adding the genitive "s" or determined form often finds additional relevant titles. Sometimes, the title is never in the lemma itself. These forms do not all fit as aliases on the Wikidata item.

Thinking about it, a button to quickly get all the forms from a matching lexeme would be a handy tool (but of course, should be handled as a separate feature request).