Added A Photograph in Support of Edit Suggestion, Edit Suggestion Rejected Anyway
AScarletSabre-PGO
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My local bus station was recently refurbished, given a sprucing up if you will, and with that came a name change. I took a new photograph to add to the Wayspot, showing what the new station design looks like and it got accepted. At the same time, I suggest a name change for the Wayspot to the new name of the bus station (which is shown in the new photograph) but this got rejected.
So, people who say we should not have supporting statements for Wayspot edits, what am I to do? Leave it to chance and keep trying, each time wasting even more of my time? I could have easily added in a news article from the local news to support my Wayspot edit but in the current iteration of Warfarer, doing so would be considered abuse.
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It would make it so much easier to determine edits like this e.g. if it's has recently changed name, if you could see all the associated photos for live POI, rather than just the top one.
When I get title/description edits like that, I will do a websearch for the location and see what the most up-to-date information says, but appreciate not all reviewers are willing to take that step
If they saw both photographs there may still be some ambiguity. One would have to assume reviewers are willing to zoom in the photograph and do not rely soles on their first impressions. Both photographs focus on on the sign rather than the infastructure which surrounds it.
True that it may not help in all cases, but for most it would give the reviewer enough, and for the rest, there's Google
Niantic probably don't want to add yet another free entry text box as they'll need to add yet another method of reporting misuse
If a wayspot has both a photo edit and another edit (title/description/location/etc), they don't get reviewed together. Photos get reviewed by themselves. So what you should've done is submit the new photo, get it accepted, then up vote it so that it's the dominant photo, and then submit the name edit so that people can actually see the new picture when reviewing your name edit.
The photos can be affected by sync issues too.
I agree that this is the sort of example where a supporting text box where you could explain the change and if necessary put in a weblink would be helpful to reviewers and submitters.
The photograph suggestlion was accepted long before the title edit, even though they were nominated together. Yes, I didn't know they would be voted on separately. That seems horribly inefficient. Why shouldn't reviewers vote on them both at the same time?
Since your title edit was rejected, you should go to the Title/Description Edit Appeals forum here and start a thread, being sure to follow the specified format and include evidence of the name change. That will be the easiest way to get this updated.
That's what appeals are for.
I had the same situation but I knew I had handled it incorrectly from the start - I had a playground that I had submitted as <park name> Playground that was accepted. When I returned to capture the portal, I found a sign specifically for the playground marking it as the "Jane Doe Memorial Playground" (real name omitted). I submitted the photo and the title edit together: the title edit was rejected before the photo was accepted. I went back to that playground, upvoted the new photo in both games, gave it time to sync as primary photo for the stop and the portal both, then resubmitted my title edit which was accepted quickly. It took a bit of work but I'm happy with the current state!