Curating Your Project: Project Owners Can Now Remove Guides That Don't Fit
An ARTOUR project is more than a folder of guides — it's a curated collection, built by weaving together content contributed by many different network members into a single, coherent experience for visitors. Guides are added, mixed, and shaped over time as a network grows. But what happens when one of those guides simply doesn't fit anymore?
For Project Owners: Editorial Responsibility, Now Backed by Real Control
Owning a project means owning its quality and coherence. Whether you're running a route network, a municipality-wide app, or a themed cultural project, you're the one who has to answer for whether every guide belongs there — even when you didn't create it yourself.
Until now, that responsibility came without a matching tool. If a contributed guide drifted off-theme, fell below your standards, or simply no longer fit the collection, there was nothing you could do from within the project.
That changes today. In the project management view, project owners now see a remove option on every guide in the project — including guides authored by other network members. It's ownership of the project, not authorship of the guide, that grants this right. Only project owners see the option; contributors managing their own guides elsewhere are unaffected.
For Contributors: Your Work Stays Yours, No Surprises
We know that handing your content into a shared project can feel risky if you don't control who else touches it. That's why removal is deliberately non-destructive, and the dialog says so in plain words: the guide is only removed from that specific project. It stays in the system, remains your property, and is not deleted or unpublished anywhere else. You keep every point of interest, every photo, every word you wrote.
Transparency is built into the process. Before a project owner can remove your guide, they're asked to write a short message explaining why. You are then automatically notified by email, with a direct link to your guide, the project it was removed from, and the owner's message. There are no silent removals — you always know what happened and why.
Clear Roles, No Surprises
This is how ARTOUR sees collaboration: project owners keep the editorial control they need to keep a network coherent and on-theme, while contributors keep full, permanent ownership of the guides they build — and are always told exactly what happened to their work and why. Coherent projects and respected authors aren't a trade-off. They're the same feature.