Something here is wrong

The quickest route

Every record carries a Suggest a correction button. It opens a short form with the field and the record already filled in. Give the correct value and, if you have one, the source it comes from — a notice, a municipal decision, a page on the château's own site. A source turns a correction from a claim into something we can check.

The form is open to anyone: owners, historians, municipalities, and visitors who noticed that a commune is spelled wrong.

What happens after you send it

The suggestion lands in a moderation queue with the field, the old value, the proposed value and the source side by side. A person reads it. Nothing is applied automatically, and only a fixed set of fields can be changed that way at all.

If the correction concerns the base Mérimée itself rather than our copy of it, we will say so: the notice belongs to the Ministry of Culture and we reproduce what it says. In that case the correction has to go to them, and we will point you to the right place.

If you own or manage the château

Find the château in the collection and use Claim this record on its page. A claim lets you record what the public registers do not hold — what the building is today, and whether it receives visitors — and it is checked against the email domain of the château's own website. What we verify is that you are who you say you are, not the building.

Something more serious

For a factual dispute, a copyright question, or a listing you believe should not be there, write to info@meijerprojectontwikkeling.nl. Name the page and what is wrong with it. We answer in the order things arrive.

Our side of it

We keep a record of what changed and when. When we find a mistake ourselves we repair it and say so publicly — twenty-one records carried names mangled by a double CSV encoding, and that is written down in the project history rather than quietly fixed.