Is Wayfarer still on hold?
Wonderdude2k-ING
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I saw the news from Feb 5 about priority going to India. Is this still an issue?
My most recent upgraded nomination (here in the USA) is still in queue after 5 days, and I'm not sure if that's just the way things are right now, or if I need to make a bug report.
In addition, I've noticed other things like POI photos not changing after a different pic receives more votes, or newly-approved photos not showing up on the Ingress portal info.
Does anyone know if this is a current system issue, or if there's some problem with my account?
Thanks for your help!
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I submitted something last Wednesday in the San Francisco bay area, upgraded because I'm always capped out on upgrades. It is now
in votingaccepted.Yep, mine was from the same day. Just checked it, and it's also now in voting.
The good news is the nomination flew through voting, and I received the decision a few hours ago.
The bad news is the playground was denied due to "The real-world location of the nomination could not be confirmed to have an acceptable pedestrian pathway leading up to it."
My frustration level went up x1000.
I am curious what the person meant who clicked "disagee" on my previous comment. I'm at a loss for any reason a children's playground would be built without accessibility.
@wonderdude2k-PGO When I get things like that I look at it as an opportunity to improve my submission. How could I have made it clearer? How could I have made it easier for reviewers to understand and accept it? Last year it took me three tries to get a decorative fountain passed. Each time it got rejected I pretended I was a reviewer from out of town and looked at my submission to see where I'd done an inadequate job of making the submission clear, and then submitted an improved version.
Here's my longer write-up about it from a few months ago.
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/9890/how-to-submit-things-that-get-accepted
Your writeup is well-written and very informative. My problem is that it just doesn't make any sense this reason was selected. I would feel like I'd be insulting the reviewers' intelligence by explaining that children have access to the play structures due to the playground being directly adjacent to the church parking lot, and they walk through the gate. I'd think this goes without saying, even.
Sure, I'll just have to resubmit and hope reviewers don't arbitrarily select some other irrelevant reason for denying the nomination. Since the regular nomination process has been running around three months, it is awful to wait that long. And while it is nice to get an upgrade after slogging through a ton of reviews, it is quite frustrating to see all that effort get wasted with a nonsensical denial on what would normally be about as slam-dunk as they come.
I do agree with you and in most cases, your suggestion does help. however, there are instances where rejection reasons actually are so nonsensical that "explaining better" just doesn't work. I've had an art gallery/independent theatre located in an old warehouse rejected for being a private residence. An ornate route marker that's clearly visible on Street View (image is from 2017) rejected for being fake. An educational sign on a marked tourist trail (trail marker visible on support photo) rejected for no pedestrian access.
If someone chooses these rejection reasons, they either do it randomly or out of malice and/or complete ignorance. In any case, explaining it better in the supporting statement would have zero impact on their decision.