How we verify what's on this site

Editorial standards covers the rules we hold every listing to. This page is the mechanics — where a listing actually comes from, what backs up each fact, and what it means when you see a show marked "Promoter verified" or "Operator verified."

We don't sit around waiting for someone to submit a show. Our system actively goes looking for them — running searches across the web for promoter sites, club and association calendars, venue event pages, and official ticketing platforms, across every category we cover, from coin shows to car cruise-ins. When it finds a calendar, it reads it directly: preferring whatever structured format a site offers (an events API, a calendar feed) and falling back to reading the page itself when a site doesn't offer one.

Know a show that isn't listed yet? You don't have to wait for us to find it —tell us about it and we'll go verify it against the source.

Every date, address, price, and contact detail on a show or venue page traces back to a specific web page — and we keep a stored copy of that page as our evidence, not just a link that could change or disappear later. If we can't confirm a fact against a page we trust, we leave it blank rather than fill it in with a guess. A missing detail gets flagged for a person to check before it's ever shown as fact.

Notice a wrong date, a canceled show still showing as upcoming, or a listing that shouldn't be here at all? Tell us and we'll re-check it against the source. When a show is over, canceled, or a listing needs to come down, we mark it expired or canceled and signal search engines that it's gone, rather than quietly deleting the page. We crawl the web freely to build this directory, but we don't refuse to take something down once it's wrong.

Every night, an automated sweep checks every show still marked as upcoming and takes down anything that's already happened or been canceled, so you're not looking at a stale calendar. Separately, the files that tell search engines what's on this site regenerate every six hours, so a correction or a newly verified listing is reflected in those signals within hours, not days.

Have a correction, a show we're missing, or a question about how a specific listing was verified? Get in touch — we read every message.