Historical version 11 of Category Now Closed (view current version)

Things no longer in existence. Pages retained here in order to not break other people's links, and in some cases for data-mining purposes. (See also Category Temporarily Closed for places that will be reopening at some point.)

When a place closes:

  • Remove all categories other than "Featured Article", "Ex-Oriental City", any pub crawl categories (e.g. "38 Bus Route Pub Crawl") and the dated Good Beer Guide categories: "Good Beer Guide 2007", "Good Beer Guide 2008", etc. You do need to remove the plain "Good Beer Guide" category, as this is the category for currently-existing pubs in the current guide, but the others should be retained as historical fact.
  • Note that this means if it wasn't a pub, it wasn't an ex-Oriental City place, and it was never a featured article, then it should have all the previous categories removed.
  • Add the "Now Closed" category.
  • Remove all the locales.
  • Remove the phone number (as it may later end up being reallocated) and opening hours.
  • Remove the postcode and OS coords from the Additional Information to stop the place showing up on location searches.
  • Edit the content and summary to make it clear that the place has closed, preferably explaining why you know it's closed (linking to a news story, for example). You can leave in any information that might still be of interest.
  • If you want to leave in old reviews verbatim, you can enclose them in <div class="old_info">...old info here...</div> to make it more obvious that this is old information.
  • It's not necessary to remove addresses, map links, or photos.

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This is version 11 (as of 2015-02-08 02:14:32). View current version. List all versions.