How to Use the Places Editor App on Facebook

Co-authored by Jack Lloyd

Last Updated: June 6, 2025

Using the Places Editor Page

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Suggesting Duplicates

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Suggesting Other Edits

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Q&A

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Tips

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Warnings

This wikiHow teaches you how to access and use Facebook's Places editor to suggest information to be added to locations (i.e. Facebook Places). The purpose of suggesting changes is to make Facebook Places more helpful for other Facebook users. You use this feature to make suggestions only. Your suggestion may be Accepted or Not Accepted by consensus with other Facebook users.

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Using the Places Editor Page

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Go to Facebook's Places editor. It's located at https://www.facebook.com/editor . Opening this page will direct you to the "Suggest Edits" page.
- If you aren't already logged into Facebook, enter your email address (or phone number) and password, then click Log In .
You'll see these blue icons on the left side of the toolbar near the top of the Facebook page. Here, you'll see your editor level, the number of people your edits have helped, the overall accuracy of your edits, your badges, and the number of edits you've made today.

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This tab is to the right of the Suggest Edits tab in the top-left corner of the page.
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Review the "Leaderboard" section. Here, you can see who among your friends has the most editor points.
- You can organize this section by clicking Week , Month , or All time to view results from the pertinent time frames.
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Click Edit History . It's right of the Community tab. This is where you can view all of the edits you've made in the following categories on the left side of the page:
- Accepted - Edits you've suggested that have been accepted by Facebook.
- Not Accepted - Edits you've suggested that have been rejected.
- Pending - Edits you've suggested that have not yet been reviewed.
- All - All editor activity on your account.
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Suggesting Duplicates

It's in the top-left corner of the editor page, directly below the Facebook search bar.
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Review an edit suggestion. You'll see a window in the top-left side of the page with a location listed at the top, as well as at least one similarly named user-created location listed at the bottom, with the caption "Is this the same place?" or "Is this the same place as the one above?" on top of the user-created location. You have a few options here:
- Click Yes to suggest the user-created option as a duplicate Place.
- A valid duplicate is one which names the same geographical feature or business at the same location.
- No-nos include marking the pizza restaurant at the mall a duplicate of the mall, for example.
- Pro Tip: Use the Located Inside feature (see below) instead of marking co-located Places, as duplicates.
- Click No to alert Facebook that the top location and the user-created Places are different from one another.
- Click Not a place to nominate the formal location for deletion.
- Click Next either to skip the current question or to confirm your selected choice.
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Click Yes or No next to a location. Doing so will determine whether or not Facebook decides to differentiate between the formal location and the one you're editing in future search queries.
- If you don't know, just click Next .
It's the blue button at the bottom of the window. This will send your suggestion to Facebook and load a new suggestion.

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Suggesting Other Edits

This is the white text field at the top of the page with "Search Facebook" written in it.
As you type, you should see location suggestions appear beneath the search bar.
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Click your location's name. You'll see it below the search bar. Doing so will open the location's business page.
- If you don't see the location you wish to edit here, make sure your spelling is correct.
It's below the photo banner at the top of page, to the right of the "Share" button.
It's near the top of the drop-down menu.
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Click a location attribute. You can click anything on the "Suggest Edits" page.
- In the Location section, you can suggest an Address, or Located inside another Place (on Facebook).
- For stores inside a mall, terminals or businesses inside an airport, or
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Type in new information. Do so in the text field that appears below the selected attribute (e.g., address, phone number, or email address).
- If you're changing the location's name, suggest the new name at the bottom of the pop-out menu right of the "Suggest Edits" window.
- Name changes should be for minor edits or corrections. A suggestion to change Los Angeles to New York is not likely to be accepted by the system.
- Make sure you're adding accurate and relevant information when you suggest an edit.
- You can suggest Category changes. Check out the description of the Place and its location for context on the correct category.
- Categories should be the most specific category that properly describes the Place.
- In the pictured example, the description includes "Palo Alto is the main train station in Palo Alto, California and the second busiest in the Caltrain system after the 4th and King Street Station," so Train Station would be the correct category. (Note that none of the categories pictured are correct at all, i.e. not particularly helpful.)
It's in the bottom-right corner of the "Suggest Edits" window. Doing so will send your edit suggestion to Facebook for review. If the edit is accepted, you'll receive a notification and it will show up on your Places page.

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My name disappeared from the leader board in Facebook Editor. I keep making edits, but I don't show up. Why?

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Because you have not made as many edits as other people have. You are no longer on the leader board because you are not one of the top editors.

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I am the editor for 5 Facebook business pages. The owner wants his businesses to show up on the Facebook Editor Suggestions. How do I turn that feature on?

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Make sure there are no location/audience restrictions made to the respective business pages. There is nothing to switch on this feature. Places Editor caters mostly to unmanaged/unadministered or unofficial pages, although sometimes popular administered (or official) pages come up the Editor app when there are unofficial duplicates abound to ask Places Editors if these are duplicates or not.

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The Facebook notification area will list the edits for your locations as they are approved. It may take some time for some edits you made to be approved, as other editors must corroborate your work.

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How to Use the Places Editor App on Facebook

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Using the Places Editor Page

Suggesting Duplicates

Suggesting Other Edits

Community Q&A

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