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I run a site where users have the ability to add their own events. The problem is that they often create new venues even though the venue they are creating already exists in the system. I still have the button that gives me the ability to merge duplicate venues in the admin, however I am looking to prevent duplicates from being created in the future. Is there a way that I can set all venues to be approved before published, or not allow users to create new venues with the same as existing ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-131196","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nVenue Approval -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/venue-approval\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Venue Approval -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I run a site where users have the ability to add their own events. The problem is that they often create new venues even though the venue they are creating already exists in the system. 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