Would a nice looking mural painting of a cat that smoke be elligible?
Euthanasio2-PGO
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The drawing looks amazing, the problem is that the drawing involve smoking, I wonder if it breaks some criteria or if it's acceptable?
Euthanasio2-PGO
Posts: 272 ✭✭✭
The drawing looks amazing, the problem is that the drawing involve smoking, I wonder if it breaks some criteria or if it's acceptable?
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I don't think the smoking part is the largest problem here. The problem I see - at least at a first glance - is that there is no clear pedestrian access and that it seems to be an illegal graffiti.
Personally if you try to submit this, it doesnt look like normal graffiti. Its actually done quite nicely. Pedestrian access would be a concern but it would be worth a shot :)
It looks like a post of a bridge over a dried river. Its hard to get through. If you have to upgrade, im not 100% convinced on it. If you dont have to upgrade, give it a try.
The problem with illegal graffitis isn't so much that they don't look cool it's mainly that local authorities could clean it up at any time. Also I don't think Niantic wants to promote vandalism through their games.
I can find the graffiti tag prohibition in the new criteria, and we have been told that the old AMAs shouldn't override the current criteria. Looking at the mural, I think it would qualify under unique art or architecture subset of a great place for exploration. I don't see any indication that this is a temporary work, illegal or graffiti. Pedestrian access might provide some difficulty, but I think it's ok. But as some people here have shown, you might have some difficulty getting it approved.
This is not an illegal graffiti and there is a pedestrian access to go there. There is a reason I just walked there. It's not vandalism, there's other cool art below this.
Good. Burden of proof is on the submitter though. None of the things you said are apparent from the picture above alone so you will need to convince reviewers through supporting photo / statement
I think an important aspect of the submission people haven't discussed so far is the safe access more than the public access, cf acceptance criteria:
Must be safe and publicly accessible by pedestrians (indoor or outdoor)
By this picture alone, even if there isn't anything preventing people to access the place, there's no apparent path leading to it, the ground seems unsafe to stand on and it appears you may have to climb down and back up to the main road to reach it with no infrastructure to help you. Hell, as far as I can see, it might even be under construction!
Now, it's just one picture, and with another one from another angle the place may appears to be less dangerous, but right now it wouldn't be somewhere I would be comfortable encouraging people to walk to.
I also think this is an illegal graffiti (done by a very talented person). If it was an official artwork approved by the owner of the pillar, I would expect there to be a signature of some kind on it. That way people who like the artwork and want one on their own property, can find a way to contact the artist. I don't see that signature here. I agree that the burden of proof is on the submitter here.
The other side looks like this. Technically it could give me two more waypoints
Not if they are within 20m of each other.
They are far enough from each other to work fine as a waypoint.
Wacceptabke or not, you need to give that a cool name like "test your might" or "MORTAL COOOMBAAAATTT"
Hi, I am very new here, but to ask on that topic: in my local area I have seen several existing pokestops which are just illegal graffiti painted on an external garage or on flat buildings. How were they approved?
Bad reviewers/early days of ingress POIs where there were like no criteria.
Guidelines have varied over time. Graffiti in particular are a weird breed because under old rules, low quality tag graffiti were ineligible but murals were OK. It's also pretty difficult to know which pieces are illegal are which aren't, and how long they're expected to stay.
In the end, every review area pretty much had developed its own set of rules. Sometimes nothing gets accepted, often times it was a matter of how good and unique the piece was.
Well. The mortal kombat was accepted and is located at the same place.