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What’s up with multiple entries for this concert, festival, artist, or venue?
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Messy duplicates make our OCD skin crawl, too! We get our information by indexing thousands of different websites for tour dates. These websites may refer to the artist, venue, or festival by slightly different names, creating separate entries in our database. We are undergoing a huge clean-up project and are setting up a system to make it easy to clean up these duplicate listings and prevent future duplicates from being added.
If you spot a duplicate, please let us know, and we’ll do what we can to clean it up.
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Inappropriate?Messy duplicates make our OCD skin crawl, too! We get our information by indexing thousands of different websites for tour dates. These websites may refer to the artist, venue, or festival by slightly different names, creating separate entries in our database. We are undergoing a huge clean-up project and are setting up a system to make it easy to clean up these duplicate listings and prevent future duplicates from being added.
If you spot a duplicate, please let us know, and we’ll do what we can to clean it up.
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Inappropriate?also, remember that if you see a duplicate concert listing, it is possible to delete it yourself by going to 'edit concert' (please be careful with this though - make sure you're whatever you're removing is definitely incorrect)!
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Inappropriate?The problem with deleting duplicate listings is if there are different people listed as attending both versions of the concert, the version you choose to delete will be removed from the gigography of the users who said they attended that concert. This creates a situation where a malicious user (troll) could delete many shows from random people's gigography just to be a jerk (and it's time consuming putting them all into Songkick in the first place). A merge feature would be better than a delete feature, so users could merge 2 concerts together instead of trying to report the hundreds of duplicate listings one by one and waiting to see if they actually get fixed.1 Comment Add a comment
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Just to clarify on Sabrina's response, if you try to delete an event that has people who attended, you'll get a message saying you can't delete that event because people said they were there! Trolls who would behave maliciously is one of my biggest nightmares, and we've tried to build systems to prevent that. And, again, as Sabrina said, we have internal tools to merge things, and we promise if you write in about duplicate data, it gets put on a list that we go through and clean up! -
Inappropriate?Hi RapeJesus!
We don't let users delete events if any other user said they were there. If you do see a duplicate event that has users saying they attended it, please send us a message and we will merge the events for you. We have tools for doing that internally.
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Inappropriate?Slightly related, as there are listings for the venue "Bender Arena" and "Bender Arena, American University", what is the preferred way to add a arena/hall/venue located on a college campus? Just the arena name, or (arena), (university)?
I’m unsure
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