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i wonder what the reason for that one is. Those are not stickers so can’t be seen as temporary.
if they go for ‘mass produced’ again, then they can remove everything. I mean, churches for example, they are every where. I think my small town already has at least 3. They maybe look different but all build with bricks. A lot of buildings are build with bricks.
joking of course, but the mass produced thing is also the really vague.

To back up what @HankWolfman-PGO says, Ingress submitters don’t even get the list of categories to choose from for submitting.

The trail options are still there for me:

Even if they were removed though, that has no bearing on their eligibility. The "what is it?" section is just a list of tags that includes both eligible and ineligible things. It's not a list of what meets the criteria and should never be treated as such.

I’ve had a trailmarker reviewed by Niantic twice now (the balloon in voting) twice rejected, NO Reason, please Niantic, stop reviewing my trailmarkers as you know nothing about Belgium!!!!!

You can find examples of 10-of-a-kind athletic fields/courts/pitches on this very forum.

'Never' is a rather bold choice of words for someone attempting a rhetorical match. It is this kind of argumentation that derails many valid nominations.

Wayfarers are unlikely to cite specific creatures when nominating trail markers, but this is not because there are no animals, or the Wayfarer is unaware of them. Nobody wants to open up spurious lines of attack against a valid point of interest.

Reviewers seem very sensitive to anything they might consider to be over-sale. Wayfarers must thread the needle between the too simple 'Marker number three' and any flowery language that will result in reviewers claiming that Snowy Owls are seasonal, or that you'll cause their extinction by following the path the Park Service has placed for that purpose.

You don't have to like everything in order to allow it to pass into the system. The whole idea is that different peoples' ideas of art and religion and culture and activity will be made available.

You aren't harmed by people nominating valid things that you don't care for personally. You won't literally be bored to d3@th. It doesn't help when people use these hypothetical horde arguments, either on these forums or when actually reviewing.

I really don't think Niantic will provide detailed advice - they don't like giving specific advice on criteria, and trying to give guidance on each of the thousands of types around the world would be difficult. You'll also see different advice and guidance from different Niantic staff - Aaron's passing comments conflict with advice given by other staff members for example. Part of the problem is that Niantic want to have the community decide on nominations but are still reeling from the wide scale Netherlands abuse and I don't think they know how to balance the two.

Personally I think official hiking trail markers (Orienteering course markers are a separate matter) make very good POI when used as placeholders for a section of trail.

OK, I'm well late to this, but what? Since bloody when are trial markers for actual trails that are numbers and arrows not good? That's literally not been the case for about 2 to 3 years now

It is actually one-hundred-percent the case that no Wayfarer is obligated to honor a throw-away line in some post on this forum or any other.

Things can become messy if we fail to honor the spirit behind the top-level guidelines, but Aaron seems to be a data-technician and doesn't (to the best of my knowledge and understanding) write content guidelines or criteria.

It's Aaron's database, but it's our content, and we can nominate and accept the stuff that satisfies us.

He may turn Emily against us, or engage in some pogrom against adhesive-back signage. If it gets too bad, we just leave.

Look at it as a test of our new Ambassadors, or a ploy to increase engagement on the forum, or simple trolling. Far from owning us, Aaron works for us.

Walk,

It might be a huge surprise to you, but people walk on trails. Walking is an exercise. Exercise is one of the three eligibility criteria.

Here’s my problem with criteria like “was it the first trail” or “does it have unique wildlife”? How on Earth do you convince reviewers of these statements even if they are true about your particular trail? It’s such a high standard that can’t be achieved in most areas. It reminds me of the pool question at one time. An Olympic swimmer had to train there in order to be eligible. Really?