diff --git a/news.d/bugfix/1219.ui.md b/news.d/bugfix/1219.ui.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0bb1ff2a7..000000000
--- a/news.d/bugfix/1219.ui.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve updating a translation in the dictionary editor: don't delete the key first, so extra metadata (e.g. additional columns in an Excel dictionary) is not deleted.
diff --git a/plover/gui_qt/dictionary_editor.py b/plover/gui_qt/dictionary_editor.py
index 8830bf77d..bd8d531be 100644
--- a/plover/gui_qt/dictionary_editor.py
+++ b/plover/gui_qt/dictionary_editor.py
@@ -224,11 +224,10 @@ def setData(self, index, value, role=Qt.EditRole, record=True):
                     break
             if dictionary == old_item.dictionary:
                 return False
-        if (old_item.dictionary, old_item.strokes) != (dictionary, strokes):
-            try:
-                del old_item.dictionary[old_item.strokes]
-            except KeyError:
-                pass
+        try:
+            del old_item.dictionary[old_item.strokes]
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
         if not old_item.strokes and not old_item.translation:
             # Merge operations when editing a newly added row.
             if self._operations and self._operations[-1] == [(None, old_item)]: