What do you guys think about these tiles nominations?
I feel very divided about these submissions because they are all around in my country. A lot of home owners like them and buy them to put outside of their home. One of the most common examples that I see accepted all the time are religious tiles, most of the time portraying a saint or Our Lady of Fatima.
To me any of these tiles, even the religious ones are a clear 1* because they are not unique, not relevant and can even be temporary as there are already sticking tiles that don't even need cement to be placed, this means anyone can buy a set of tiles and put them wherever to create a wayspot.
The tiles I am referring to are the small ones, usually 30cm-50cm long (12 - 20 inches) not the big murals that we sometimes see outside.
Even though I feel it's a one star I have skipped them all so far.
What do you guys think? This one for example is outside an apartment complex, which is not the most common. 90% of the times they are placed outside of a private house not complexes.
Comments
Regardless of sentiment or artistic quality, if the work appears on Private Residential Property it is forbidden by Wayfarer rules.
Further, those tiles appear to be a manufactured item. If they were hand-painted and in a public area and not associated with a single-family home, they might qualify.
Most of the tiles in my country are hand painted in a factory. However they are still mass produced. Even the normal a.k.a "basic" ones. Not in the thousands at a time as it takes a human hand but they do make hundreds all alike to sell. The sticking ones are indeed painted by a machine.
The bigger problem is you can't see by a photo if the tiles are clay based (meaning they need cement to install) or plastic based which have stickers on the back.
If I chose to accept every nomination because it's hand painted, then 70% of the the apartments and houses would be a wayspot.
Here's one of the few videos about the tiles:
https://youtu.be/OFdnVeMnt70
Given this context, what do you think?
if they’re in public places they would qualify as they are artistic and manmade. if they’re on private residential property they don’t.
I think your instincts are pretty good. If it's mass-produced, being hand-painted in a factory wouldn't stop it from being mass-produced, so rejecting it would make sense.
You'll probably got a problem if it's located in Japan, anyway.
I Japan? Sorry I didn't understand.
It's just sarcasm anyway. There' a Japanese (or, at least 2) who reported Wayspots or nominations he didn't like in this forum. POIs in the children daycare, statues in graveyards, artistic manholes (just like the tiles you've discussed here), anything you can name that he would report here.
Back to the topic, if you are strongly sure that the tiles are mass produced then just reject it.