Most of this catalogue is an absence

What is on file

Counted at request time from the merged catalogue. Percentages are floored; nothing here is rounded upward.

1,097

rooms on record

Across 19 regions.

9

carry a venue document

At least one finding that rests on something the venue itself issued. This is the number the whole exercise exists to move.

141

carry an operator's own words

At least one finding somebody at the venue stated. Weaker than a document, and labelled as weaker everywhere it appears.

951

carry neither

Typology and absence: what rooms of this kind are usually like, and the questions nobody has put to this one.

156

sized by a drawn layout

A capacity a plan proved, with service aisles and egress paths shown.

528

sized only by a published figure

A number the venue posted or its own pages carry. Enough to contradict a headcount, never enough to clear one.

9,185

open fields

Named questions the record cannot answer. An open field is a question, never a fault of the venue.

5,959

findings that resolved to nothing

Recorded as absence. Absence is never read as a pass.

What we have asked for, and what came back

The way 9 becomes ninety is not a better scraper. It is asking venues for documents and writing down what arrives. This is that ledger, and it is published in the same state as everything else — including when it is empty.

0

requests sent

0

asked, no reply yet

0

documents recorded

No venue has been asked yet. The request packs are built and the queue is ordered; nothing has been sent, and saying so is more useful to you than a number we could have arranged to look better. 965 of the 1,097 rooms on file carry a route by which their operator could be reached, which is the ceiling on how many can be asked at all.

The four classes, and what promotes between them

Nothing does. The class is a function of how a fact arrived, never of how confident it sounds. There is no path in this instrument by which a persuasive sentence becomes a document.

Documented

A file the venue issued and we hold. The strongest class here, and still not a promise about your date.

Stated

An email in prose, or something said on a call, written down with the date and the name of the person who said it. It survives staff turnover only as that note.

Patterned

A phrase read off the venue's own pages, or the typology's usual behaviour. A claim about itself, held as a question. It cannot clear a hard constraint, and a capacity read this way can contradict a headcount but never clear one.

Nothing on record

No source of any class addresses the point. 72 per cent of the findings on file are this. It is recorded as absence and is never read as a pass.

What happens when a venue sends something

1. One We generate a request naming the specific documents that record is missing — never a form letter. A person reads it, edits it and sends it. Nothing here emails anybody automatically or on a schedule.
2. Two What comes back is recorded by hand against the venue, with the date it arrived, who sent it, what the document was called, what it establishes, and what it still leaves open. The provenance is recorded before the value, and a record that cannot state its provenance is refused.
3. Three A document is published as documented. An email in prose or a sentence on a call is published as stated. That decision is made by how it arrived and by nothing else.
4. Four A usable capacity is written only from a plan or a posted-capacity certificate, and only as a document. A figure an operator says aloud is published in their words and does not size the room, because the fields that size a room mean a layout proved the number.
5. Five The verdict changes immediately, and the questions the document answers close. The questions it does not answer stay open and say so on the page.

If you run one of these rooms

Find your entry, read what it currently says, and send whatever of these already exists. A page from a pack you already issue is worth more here than anything written for us.

• A dimensioned or stamped floor plan at a stated layout — settles the usable figure for one named layout, with service aisles and egress paths drawn rather than described.
• The posted-capacity certificate for the room — settles the occupancy the room is permitted to hold, as posted by the authority that set it.
• Your written accessibility statement or access guide — settles the continuous route from the arrival point to the room, and whether an accessible restroom serves it.
• Your load-in and vehicle access specification — settles the door heights, the lift or dock, the vehicle sizes the approach takes, and the hours goods may arrive.
• Your power specification and distribution schedule — settles the permanent service available, the distribution points, and the house AV inventory that draws on it.
• The curfew and sound-limit clause from your hire agreement — settles the amplified-sound cutoff, the limit that applies, and how it is measured and enforced.
• Your catering terms — the approved list, or the exclusivity clause — settles which caterers may work in the building, what kitchen exists for them, and what is charged separately.
• A current certificate of insurance for the premises — settles that the building carries cover, and what cover it requires of a hirer and their suppliers.

Send them to hello@tangledthistle.blog, with the name of the room. Each will be recorded as your position, dated and attributed, and published at the class it arrived in and not above it. If you would rather a document was not published, say so and it will not be — we will not hold a document back and keep the claim it supports. If something on your entry is already wrong, tell us and it will be corrected whether or not you send anything else.