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In early April, we released the “Historian Concert Compare” Tool<\/a>, which allows Historians to compare duplicate concerts and report any errors to us. That tool has proven very useful, and several of our Historians have been making good use of it.<\/p>\n

We added another feature for Historians, which should make things even easier for them to add and edit concerts…<\/p>\n

“Don’t Add This Concert To My Archive”<\/h3>\n

The purpose of the Historian role is to enable users to help ensure the historical accuracy of concert data across the platform.<\/p>\n

This is accomplished mainly when Historians add concerts that are missing or editing concerts that have inaccurate data, like missing bands or an incorrect venue.<\/p>\n

To do this, Historians had to first add these concerts into their Personal Concert Archive, even if they hadn’t attended the concert. This was a problem for two reasons:<\/p>\n