Changing a Cache's Name or Title?

[+Sol-Fintan]

Can I change my cache's name and keep its location?

[+Max and 99]

16 minutes ago, Sol-Fintan said:

Can I change my cache's name and keep its location?

Yes. Why do you want to change the name?

[+Sol-Fintan]

I'm trying to do a series of caches that share a same theme that are located near independent bookstores. This current cache is book themed but doesn't fit in the series I want to create. 

Thanks for your quick reply, I appreciate it.

[+Max and 99]

3 minutes ago, Sol-Fintan said:

I'm trying to do a series of caches that share a same theme that are located near independent bookstores. This current cache is book themed but doesn't fit in the series I want to create. 

Thanks for your quick reply, I appreciate it.

Fun idea!

[+Goldenwattle]

I've known caches to have name changes. I know of several caches, for instance, near railway stations, which had their names changed, so they could join the SideTracked series.

[+Sol-Fintan]

Okay great, thanks guys! Do you know if I have to inform a Reviewer or simply write a note?

[+kunarion]

44 minutes ago, Sol-Fintan said:

Okay great, thanks guys! Do you know if I have to inform a Reviewer or simply write a note?

 

I'd say to at least make a Note log.  Consider adding the info to the cache Description somewhere.  Just to clear up any confusion by people who found it already.

 

As for changing the cache name, edit the cache page as usual, type the new cache name, and save it.  Done!

 

Here I added an exclamation point to my cache name.  Worked fine:

 

Edited January 31 by kunarion

[+Sol-Fintan]

Thanks so much, I will do as you advise; it seems like the easiest way to make the change.

Cheers

 

[Keystone]

1 hour ago, Sol-Fintan said:

I'm trying to do a series of caches that share a same theme that are located near independent bookstores. This current cache is book themed but doesn't fit in the series I want to create.

 

Just be sure that your new title (and any edits to your cache description) does not promote the bookstore business in any way, and doesn't include the bookstore's name (or any variant).  These things would violate the solicitation/commercialism section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.

 

While an edit like this does not need to go through your Community Volunteer Reviewer, an edit that's not guidelines-compliant will eventually catch your Reviewer's attention, one way or another.  That can earn a one-way ticket to DisableTown.

[+Sol-Fintan]

Thanks, I do not intend to promote any particular bookstore, I am mearly drawing people's attention to them and I may even try to place one at one on the community book free library thing a ma-gigs (?) I just think a lot of catchers are book readers and if they can find a good book and get a cache at the same time; well how fun is that!

Thanks again for the guideance, it's really much appreciated.

 

[Keystone]

"Drawing people's attention" to a bookstore could be "promoting" the bookstore, depending on the words chosen.

 

If you choose to hide a cache in a Little Free Library, please know that Geocaching HQ has asked the Community Volunteer Reviewers to confirm that the cache owner has received permission from the owner of the Little Free Library.

[+Goldenwattle]

1 hour ago, Keystone said:

If you choose to hide a cache in a Little Free Library, please know that Geocaching HQ has asked the Community Volunteer Reviewers to confirm that the cache owner has received permission from the owner of the Little Free Library.

I went to find a cache in a LFL, only to meet an annoyed library owner. I was shocked to be told the hider of the cache hadn't got permission from the library owner, who had got rid of the cache. I really don't understand why someone wouldn't ask permission before hiding a cache in a LFL.

 

1 hour ago, Keystone said:

Drawing people's attention" to a bookstore could be "promoting" the bookstore, depending on the words chosen.

I had to get rid of words saying you could take a break and get a coffee at the local shopping centre on a multi cache of mine. Walking about 3.5kms and which went past the shopping centre. I wasn't advertising any individual business, as there were several cafes there, and a supermarket. My caching friends and I consider taking a break to sit and have a coffee an absolute necessary part of the geocaching experience (and there is a food attribute) I thought others would like to know where to get one too. Now I consider my words more carefully. I felt disappointed though, to reduce the caching experience by omitting the reference to where they could take a break.

[+thebruce0]

4 hours ago, Goldenwattle said:

I had to get rid of words saying you could take a break and get a coffee at the local shopping centre on a multi cache of mine. Walking about 3.5kms and which went past the shopping centre. I wasn't advertising any individual business, as there were several cafes there, and a supermarket. My caching friends and I consider taking a break to sit and have a coffee an absolute necessary part of the geocaching experience (and there is a food attribute) I thought others would like to know where to get one too. Now I consider my words more carefully. I felt disappointed though, to reduce the caching experience by omitting the reference to where they could take a break.

Yeah sometimes I think the 'promoting a business' ethic can be taken a little far at times... it's an agenda to suggest that it's possible to take a break at a nearby coffee shop, without even naming anything? It's not a requirement or an essential, just an option.  That's pushing it I think...  Meanwhile events themselves can be in restaurants (and possibly, maybe, if the reviewer is convinced, name it in the listing).  One can attend without buying food, as the intent of events; but one can't put an idea that one can have a coffee break at a nearby store... But whatev, just venting, heh

[+JL_HSTRE]

23 hours ago, Goldenwattle said:

I really don't understand why someone wouldn't ask permission before hiding a cache in a LFL.

 

You don't need permission to add or remove a book so people probably assume they can add a geocache without permission too.

 

Unless the LFL is in someone's front yard it's also not usually obvious who owns it or how to contact them - the same problem with land owners and cache placements. 

[+Goldenwattle]

6 minutes ago, JL_HSTRE said:

in someone's front yard

The example was on someone's front fence.

 

Mine is in my front yard, although it's accessed from the public street footpath. I have a TB hotel in the ceiling. I would also have been annoyed if someone placed a cache in mine without permission, before I could place mine there. So I understood why the LFL owner was upset. I just wished it wasn't me who was the one to come up against an annoyed owner telling me they had removed the cache.

[+Bear and Ragged]

On 1/31/2024 at 12:05 AM, Sol-Fintan said:

Can I change my cache's name and keep its location?

 

Just be aware, should a cacher be on a challenge to find" a cache name starting or ending with specific letter" you might get a few comments about the change!

[+thebruce0]

Or if it has a specific word in it no longer there (but you might get thanks if the new name now meets any of those challenges :P)

 

Plenty of caches have been published with gibberish names merely to help qualify for some title-based challenge caches