The Bouncing Souls / The Potato Pirates / Dwarves

Jason Z Sep 16, 2024

Agreed too. I have contacted the moderator when this came up before wrt The Ogden, as it seems really weird to me that venues aren't standardized. But I never received a response. Maybe if more people contact them they'll get on it!

Andy Levitz Sep 16, 2024

Agree. Site needs to make it easier to merge venues and band pages, etc.

Zonny Sep 16, 2024

Thanks Andy and Jason for explaining your points of view. Not trying to mess with anyone's individual stats, but can see how this would happen. Was more looking at the integrity of macro stats for the venues and bands themselves. Hopefully the site owners succeed in their efforts to reduce opportunities to introduce variations that cause event duplication

Andy Levitz Sep 16, 2024

I have other concerts with the current name. If someone wants to go through and remove the in all of them go for it, but if they're just going to do this one then it messes with my archive. The facebook page of the venue says "The Bluebird Theater" which is probably what I went by when I added it 6 years ago.

I have no problem with someone changing it so long as they change all of them.

Zonny Sep 16, 2024

Hey Andy Levitz. There's a duplicate instance for this show already. I try to merge them when I come across them. By changing the venue name to "Bluebird Theater", the auto-merge feature would bring those 2 shows together for all attendees. Why intentionally create/perpetuate duplicates? If you run this query you will see 4000+ shows logged for "Bluebird Theater" and less than 100 for "The Bluebird Theater" .
https://www.concertarchives.org/...