There’s no doubt you’ve seen venues listed many different ways in Foursquare’s database. Foursquare provides some guidance to users who add or edit venues, but they’ve left out a lot of things that have been left up to user interpretation. To help fill in those gaps, we’ve added a style guide to this site for your reference.

This style guide is made up of the best practices reported by superusers on Foursquare’s GetSatisfaction site and our own forums. We invite your feedback and ideas to help make it the definitive reference for editing Foursquare venues.

One of the themes you’ll notice is keeping the main venue “findable” when there are subvenues. We’ve worked to keep the main venue name out of subvenue names so that the main venue doesn’t get shuffled out of the search results. That often happens when there are a lot of subvenues that include the main venue’s name in their title, for instance “Gate B43 — CVG Airport.” Searching for “CVG” in an area crowded with subvenues that include “CVG” in that name could result in the main venue not showing up in the search results at all.

Thanks to all the superusers who’ve contributed to the style guide!

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