Rejected Natural Feature
BregoLover-PGO
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These newly built posts to replace old ones were rejected because of being a natural feature. Is there any way to get this accepted?
BregoLover-PGO
Posts: 5 ✭✭
These newly built posts to replace old ones were rejected because of being a natural feature. Is there any way to get this accepted?
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What criterion do you think they meet? There's an easy argument for the park to be a wayspot but I don't see some posts and chains as unique or interesting.
I only see some wooden posts that even seem temporary. I think it is well rejected.
They aren’t temporary, they were just put there last month to replace similar posts
"It exists" is not a valid criteria.
It needs to meet an actual criteria: explore, exercise, or socialize. I don't think any of those things happen at this fence.
If you think they do, explain it to reviewers. Include a link in your Supporting Info, because as you see here, reviewers are going to be skeptical.
I don’t think any of that happens at the park sign 100 feet away either which is a stop. No one ever goes to that park and if they do it’s for the small playground clear on the other side. People walk through there a lot but I guess since there’s no pavement I can’t get a stop there.
@BregoLover-PGO It's not "there's no pavement I can't get a stop there." That's not the issue. The issue is that it doesn't meet one criterion for being a wayspot.
Are the posts a great place to explore? No. You'd never seek out those posts as a destination.
Are they a great place to be social? No. People don't go to posts to hang out.
Are they a great place to exercise? No. They're roughly akin to a fence or a street sign or a parking bollard... just an uninteresting piece of infrastructure.
Wayfarer is not finding a place where you want a stop and trying to find something to submit. It's about finding things that are interesting enough to meet Niantic's wayspot criteria and submitting them. As for the sign, place name signs serve as a proxy for the park as a whole, and the park does meet the criteria for being a wayspot.
I didn't review this nomination but I think I found the park. From what I've seen, I would not approve this.
I think using these posts as the visual representation for a trailhead or popular walking path should be eligible. But not for something that appears to just be the walking path to a playground. Maybe, maybe, maybe if you reframed the candidate & nomination as a a popular walking area for residents to socialize, explore, and exercise, but I think reviewers would still be unconvinced as this doesn't appear to be a well used walking area.
Is there a local organization that you could ask to sponsor a Little Free Library and place it in the park? Or ask them to install athletic field posts such as a baseball backstop or soccer goals? Maybe even educational signage about native life or history.