Ability to Edit Book/Restaurant/Quote/etc. Info

As I’ve been surfing through the Zaadz community I’ve come upon a couple instances where information that has been submitted is either wrong or misplaced (e.g. misspelled restaurant names, duplicate authors (my mistake in one instance), incorrect restaurant operation hours, etc.).

I think it would be beneficial to create some sort of “quasi-wiki-style” interface in order to allow the information available to Zaadsters to be up to date and correct. While this could manifest itself in the form of something like Wikipedia, I recognize that there is always the potential for someone to come in and cause problems with information that is easily editable. To address this problem, I suggest creating some form of “correction form” that could be sent to the administrators. This “Correction Request Form” would take the form of an e-mail, would include a title, a reason for correction, the correction itself, and the user who has submitted the correction.

The potential that this particular idea presents is this: it will allow for corrections to be easily made by users with the permission of adminstrators. Rather than making a request-by-message to an administrator and having them search to make a change, the change can be presented in a form and as soon as the administrators cross-checks and approves the correction being requested, the correction will be put into effect.

On a smaller note, the user-to-admin exchange format this can take could be similar to the “Invite” process, where the user submitting a correction will be made aware of whether or not the correction was approved, and when.

Re: Ability to Edit Book/Restaurant/Quote/etc. Info

I either apologize if I missed it, or thank the wizards for providing it, but I just noticed that we can now update business information. I hope that this will eventually mean we can begin to update author, book, and quote info too! Thanks!!

Re: Ability to Edit Book/Restaurant/Quote/etc. Info

Ah. I now see more clearly; we are able to edit restaurant info for restaurants or “zPages” that we have created but are unable to edit others.

Since we are not able to see who has added each zPage, we are unable to contact those who have entered incorrect information. Would it be possible for us to have the ability to edit all zPage info (in addition to book author, quote author, etc. info) in a Wiki-style format? That would be excellent.

Re: Ability to Edit Book/Restaurant/Quote/etc. Info

Good idea, methinks!