Deleting places is now supported

I really shouldn't be working so much over the weekend, but I couldn't sleep, woke up at 03:30, and randomly decided to tackle a long overdue project: proper support for deleting places on BeerAdvocate, allowing us to finally cleanup hundreds of erroneous listings.

How it works:

• Delete = a soft delete (hidden), allowing it to be reversed
• When a place is deleted, it'll no longer show up in lists or when searching for it on the site
• Unless moved, any associated data (beers, ratings, etc) will also be hidden and not included in stats
• I'll do my best to move associated user data, but this might not be possible in some cases (like reviewing a duplicate entry and then the original one or reviewing multiple entries for the same beer that needs to be merged)

As I told the mod team...I've still got a bit of work to do, but everything seems to be working and I plan on granting mod access soon. In the meantime, I'm doing some final testing by running through the report queue to handle some ancient entries and pushing supporting updates as needed.

(Please don't report any entries that have "duplicate" in the place name. Those will be handled soon, along with hundreds of previous reports.)

Bugs/issues or questions? Let me know.

 

Just cleaned up over 275 duplicate locations. Easy ones with nothing attached to them.

Going to take a break before hitting the more complicated entries.

 

Grounds for deletion would be a duplicate listing (most common), a listing that doesn't belong on the site (like a non-beer place), or other entry that was made in error or is simply no longer relevant. Marking it as "closed" (the old way) means that it's still searchable, indexed by search engines, and simply not accurate (especially if the place isn't actually closed).

And soft-deleting means that we still have a record of the entry. It's just not public anymore, but could be reversed if the action was done in error. Same goes for deleting beers, threads, and posts.

 

A non-beer place is literally that; a place that doesn't produce, sell, or serve beer.