Just had two rejections for unclear reasoning
LeppelCherry-PGO
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I’m still new to this but I’ve approved many new Wayspots. I’ve submitted just two new places and I don’t understand the rejections. My area has almost no poke stops and my submissions were rejected for “unclear title or description” I stated the exact names of the restaurants and what they were but it’s only letting me appeal one? This is truly disappointing if I’ve waited for weeks and this is what users are doing. Honestly makes me want to just stop playing if places can have 30 spots in a museum or arena and keep adding more and I can’t get one in a whole square mile.
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Please post screenshots of everything associated with your submissions so we can help you. I suspect you referred to Pokémon in the description, which would make the description ineligible.
I’ll never unterstand the sentiment “it’s not fair one place has 30 pokestops”. Those pokestops don’t affect whether or not yours gets approved. You should just enjoy those 30 pokestops.
Hello and Welcome @LeppelCherry-PGO
As @SeaprincessHNB-PGO has asked post screen shots of the nominations so we can try to help figure out what might have happened.
Second everyone gets one appeal per month, so you can initially only appeal one and then in a month a second one.
You might want to wait until we can comment on the nominations before appealing as it may influence which you pick first.
We are also happy to make suggestions about possible other wayspots.
@LeppelCherry-PGO Did you mention any specific game in your title or description? If so, that's an automatic rejection for title/description.
@Hosette-ING
Does that rule still exist under the current criteria? I don't see it in the acceptance criteria, rejection criteria or content guidelines.
I have been accepting nominations that mention Pokémon since the criteria reset.
only 2? poor innocent, you have a lot to suffer on wayfarer hahaha
The process of acceptation / rejection is indeed sometimes mystifying. What I learned is that the moment a restaurant or shop is in the picture, there is a high chance that it will get rejected; eventhough the nomination itself might be in order and valid according to the guidelines (and even if the nomination is not about the shop, but for instance an architectural façade) .
Unrelated text should still be rejected.
You can only raise one appeal at a time afaik then after 30 days you can raise another.
For starters you're only allowed one appeal at a time.
Secondly, the number of waypoints in a given area may lower the threshold somewhat but it doesn't do away with it. I've seen people try to nominate mile markers because "There's no stops around". Get with your town council and try to erect some historical markers or get a mural. Maybe ask a local business if you can construct an LFL in their easement.
To your specific point I can't know for sure since you didn't post your submissions but guidelines used to be if you mentioned needing a PokeStop or a portal in your area it was justification for rejection. The submission and supporting information are supposed to be about the POI not about why you want it.
As far as I'm aware the general direction was "Description and supporting informatiion should say why the stop is worthy of approval and shouldn't reference the game"