On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:50:24AM +0100, Janet McKnight wrote:
I'm assuming it will be mostly standard reasons, select from
- phoned them up
- walked past & saw it
- saw an email/blogpost/tweet/etc from them
- ...other (free text)
I can't think of any other ways you could check the existence of a business, to be honest, but maybe I'm just unimaginative...
the obvious ones missing from that list are "I went in and spent some money" and "I work there" :-)
I wonder if we need to have some way of saying whether it was just the existence that was checked or whether other details (e.g. opening hours) were checked too... but that might get complicated.
The London guide already has (in plain text, I think, not in DB fields) info on when opening times were checked and when it was last confirmed to still exist. eg ...
http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Balham_Bowls_Club,_SW12_8QX
which says (at the moment) "Last visited by DrHyde, March 2011. Opening hours taken from the Balham Bowls Club website, December 2011". I think there's value in this.