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  18th Mar 2024, 6:27 PM#1  REPORT  
rustieneil SUBS ●

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Can these be merged please:
Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan is the same venue as Royal Oak Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.

Venue website has Royal Oak Music Theatre as the correct name.


  18th Mar 2024, 10:10 PM#2  REPORT  
TheJudge

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Merged.


  20th Mar 2024, 5:07 PM#3  REPORT  
rocket666

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Venue right now then but Michigan is a state NOT a city. So please add Detroit to address - narrows down search for venue one step at least.


  20th Mar 2024, 6:00 PM#4  REPORT  
rustieneil SUBS ●

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rocket666 wrote:
Venue right now then but Michigan is a state NOT a city. So please add Detroit to address - narrows down search for venue one step at least.

Firstly let me emphasise that I agree with you in principle about making it simpler/clearer to search for venues bu I'm not sure what you mean by "add Detroit to address"?
It's a fact that Royal Oak Music Theatre is in the city of Royal Oak in the state of Michigan and that's what the venue details show at the moment.
The problem is that promoters will often list the venue as being in the city of Detroit as, at a distance of 14 miles from central Detroit, the city of Royal Oak is often described as a suburb of Detroit.
I've come across plenty of other examples of this for other US venues in the past few weeks.

I may be wrong but adding Detroit to the address won't affect searches at all (and that's ignoring the factual inaccuracy) whereas adding Detroit to the venue name would affect searches e.g. Royal Oak Music Theatre [Detroit] or even Royal Oak Music Theatre [near Detroit].


  21st Mar 2024, 10:35 PM#5  REPORT  
rocket666

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Hi Neil; Firstly all very good points and then I have to apologise for a senior moment. Not as rare as they should be I guess.

I think I missed the Royal Oak location in the new listing and assumed it only showed 'venue' then 'state'. Sorry one and all.

Quote "I've come across plenty of other examples of this for other US venues in the past few weeks." Agreed and on the reverse side I have seen some Australian shows lately at venues in towns unlisted here, yet when you search the venue it turns out they are in suburbs of major cities.

So is there a case then for saying a location (village, town, suburb, or city) must be above a certain population? Easily googled.
In the UK perhaps only using posttowns (by first/second number of postcode) as so many hamlets and villages with only ever one or two venues are here.
Prime example of 3 places called Ripley; in Yorkshire (seperated), Derbyshire and Surrey. There must be hundreds similar in the USA and other countries.

However, as often with these topic, I digress and refer to a sign in my NHS surgery seem today. "Only one ailment can be dealt with per visit."


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