Claiming your page on Curtn

A claim is how you tell Curtn that a page belongs to you. Most pages on Curtn start out unclaimed — they exist because someone logged a show, run, or performance, or because Curtn imported a record from a public source. Claiming a page moves it from a community-maintained record to one you steward directly.

The three kinds of pages you can claim are venues, production companies, and people (actors, directors, designers, etc.).

Actors and other artists can claim their own person page. If a producer wants to manage an artist's page on their behalf, the artist should claim it first and then transfer or share access (transfers are covered below).

Production companies can claim their company page. Anyone authorized to speak for the company can submit the claim — you'll be asked to show that authority during review.

Venues can claim their venue page. A staff member or owner can submit; the same evidence rules apply.

On any unclaimed venue, company, or person page, you'll see a banner inviting you to claim it. Tap it and you'll be taken to a short form where you can:

• Tell us, in your own words, why this page is yours.
• Optionally link an external profile (your official website, an Instagram, a verified IMDb, etc.) — see Verification below for what helps most.

Submitting the form creates a pending claim. You can see all the claims you've submitted on your dashboard.

Every claim is reviewed manually by a Curtn admin. We're a small team, so reviews are not instant — give it a few days. You'll get an in-app notification when your claim is approved or declined.

If we decline, we'll include a reason. The common ones are: insufficient evidence, a competing claim already in flight, or a page that needs to be split or merged before a claim makes sense. Declining isn't permanent — you can resubmit with more context.

You don't need every signal below to get approved — they're just the strongest forms of evidence we look at. The more of these you can show, the faster a reviewer can say yes:

• Webmaster verification. If you control the website for a venue or company, you can add a small token we provide to your site (or a DNS record) and we'll confirm the link automatically. This is the strongest single signal.
• External profile links. Linking an official social profile, your company's listing on a recognized industry directory, or a personal site that already references the page helps a lot.
• Trust-graph endorsements. If an already-claimed page that's clearly connected to you (your agency, the venue you perform at, your producing company) endorses your claim, that counts as a meaningful vouch.

These signals add up to a score reviewers can see at a glance. In some cases, a claim with a high enough score may be auto-approved.

Once approved, the page is marked as claimed and you appear as its steward. Concretely:

• You can edit the claimable fields on your page directly — name, description, links, photos, and so on — and your edits publish immediately.
• Other users no longer have direct edit access. Instead, their edits arrive as proposals you can approve or decline.
• Your dashboard surfaces the page along with anything that needs your attention (pending proposals, transfer offers, etc.).

When someone else tries to edit your page, their change becomes a proposal queued for your review. You'll see it on your dashboard and on a strip at the top of the page itself.

You can approve a proposal (it publishes), decline it (it doesn't), or ignore it. Ignored proposals don't sit forever — after 10 days you get a reminder, and after 14 days they auto-approve. This keeps obviously-correct edits (a fixed typo, an updated address) from being blocked by an inactive claimant.

If two proposals would conflict with each other, approving one automatically declines the other.

Every edit to a venue, company, or person page is recorded. You can see the full history on the page itself, including who made the edit and what they changed.

If something gets edited in a way you don't want — even by you, by mistake — you can revert any entry in the history. A revert is itself recorded as a new entry, so the trail is always complete.

If you need to hand off a page — your manager is taking over, you're leaving a company, the venue changed ownership — you can transfer your claim from your dashboard.

You pick the recipient by their Curtn username and add an optional message. They have 14 days to accept or decline. During that window the claim still belongs to you; if they don't respond, the offer expires and nothing changes.

Claims aren't forever-by-default. To make sure pages don't get stuck with stewards who've moved on, Curtn watches for activity on each claimed page.

If a claimant goes 11 months without any activity (visiting the dashboard, editing the page, responding to a proposal), we send a warning notification. At 12 months without activity, the claim expires and the page returns to unclaimed — at which point anyone else can claim it.

You don't need to do anything special to keep a claim — just use Curtn occasionally on behalf of your page.

Sometimes a piece of edit history shouldn't stay public — a real name that should be a stage name, an old address that's now a private residence, a description written in bad faith. You can submit a removal request from the edit history menu and an admin will review it.

If approved, the entry stays in the audit trail (we never destroy history) but its contents are hidden from non-admin viewers. Curtn isn't a venue for litigating disputes, but it is a tool for keeping your public identity accurate.

Most pages on Curtn are unclaimed and that's fine — the community keeps them accurate. Any signed-in user can edit an unclaimed page directly, and every change is recorded in the page's edit history so bad edits can be reverted.

When you claim a page, all of that prior history stays attached — you inherit a record, you don't start fresh.