Questions on reviewing pokéstop requests
Dolphin3212-PGO
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If there's a request that says for example "forest brewing" and it serves alcohol but is also a restaurant, so I approve those places? Or no because they serve alcohol? Also, if there's a pokéstop request and it has a cluster of 20 pokéstops in a small area already, should it be denied? Because I come across these issues allot, LITERALLY pokéstops right next to the request, like walk 2 steps, isn't that considered a duplicate just with a different picture? I just want to be fair and correct in wayfare reviews because I enjoy doing it
Comments
There's no ban against establishments that serve alcohol.
If it's truly a duplicate, then mark it as a duplicate. If it's a separate point of interest that just happens to be physically close to another, rate it as though it weren't near anything. A special note that parts of a whole aren't individually considered eligible. For example, a baseball field is eligible, but its different parts, like the based, scoreboard, and dugouts, are not eligible. But you might have something like a mural on the wall of a recreation center. Both the mural and recreation center are eligible even though they happen to be close together.
Places that sell alcohol, like pubs and bars, can be eligible. Most of these places let children in so long as they're accompanied by responsible adults, and as such they aren't strictly adult oriented and can be approved if you believe they meet the acceptance criteria. In the UK it's especially common to see local pubs accepted as wayspots.
Regarding proximity, if the two objects are distinct, and they both meet acceptance criteria (say a statue and a gazebo, for example), but they're only a metre or so apart, then both should still be in the database. Proximity to other wayspots is not a criteria that we as reviewers need to take into account.
Remember that we're submitting wayspots for the Niantic Lightship database, not game specific locations such as Pokéstops or Portals. The Lightship database has no proximity rules. If a wayspot is accepted, it gets added to the Lightship database. From there, the games themselves have proximity rules which determine if a wayspot is able to sync into that game or not. What you see on that map when you're reviewing are wayspots - not all of them will be in Pokémon Go, or Ingress, or Pikmin Bloom. In fact some of them may not be in any games at all.
You should only mark something as a duplicate if it is literally the same object as what you're currently reviewing, or if the submitter is trying to submit parts of a whole point of interest, such as individual pieces of play equipment (when the play area as a whole should be the wayspot).