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Catalogue & reporting an issue

How the shared toy catalogue works, where records come from, and how to fix a wrong one.

One shared catalogue

Every library draws from the same global toy catalogue, so a toy is described once and recall + safety info is shared. Records come from several places, shown by a provenance badge:

  • AI · not reviewed — auto-generated from a photo, not yet human-checked.
  • AI · reviewed / Staff-curated — checked by our team.
  • Library-contributed — added by a member library.

Improving a shared record

If a shared record is wrong, your library can edit it — that creates your own private copy (a fork), so you're not changing everyone else's. You can then propose those improvements back to the shared record; the catalogue team — platform staff and approved community moderators — reviews and merges them. (A moderator never decides a proposal from their own library.)

Once a curator decides, the toy's Catalog section shows the outcome and you get a dashboard notification. If the changes weren't accepted you'll see Not accepted — with the curator's short reason when they left one — and your own version stays active in your inventory. You can revise and send again at any time.

Adding your own toy to the catalogue

For a toy your library created (not forked from a shared record), Add this toy to the shared catalogue offers it as a new entry for review. Before it publishes, we show any existing shared entries that look like the same product — by barcode or by name — so you can link to one instead of creating a duplicate. Linking inherits that record's photos, pieces and safety recalls; it's only a suggestion, so you can still contribute your entry if none of them match.

Reporting an issue

For a quick "this is wrong" — a bad photo, wrong age, a duplicate — use Report an issue on the toy, or the Flag button on a specific photo. It goes to a curator's review queue rather than changing the record directly, so anyone can flag a problem safely. Photo deletion always routes through this review, never a direct delete.