Generic Backstops
How are we supposed to review these? I am seeing a slough of them and searched the guidelines and could not come up with anything about how they should be rated. Maybe it's me, but I don't feel that "X Park Backstop #3" is that great. I typically skip these, but with more showing up, I need someone to tell me what to do!
TYIA
P.S. If it has the parks name on it and there are no other markers for the park, I do give it a favorable rating.
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GearGlider-ING Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
Pictures of the kinds of backstops you're talking about would help. Usually, if there's an obvious baseball field, it's a good candidate.
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TheFarix-PGO Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
If the field is already a Wayspot, mark it a duplicate. If the field is not a Wayspot, rejected the backstop for not meeting criteria. It sounds like someone is trying to subdivided a field into its individual components, which I saw someone else do with a group of baseball fields and their respective scoreboards.
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Gendgi-PGO Posts: 3,534 Ambassador
This is an example of something I would likely give decent marks to, assuming the title and description was done appropriately. Sure, it's "just" a fence, but the sports field overall provides a safe place for people to play and encourages sportsmanship and appreciation of the athletics, all while in a safe park. Sure, there are "bigger and better" nearby fields, but I assume this one has more accessibility and can be used more recreationally.
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Pictures of the kinds of backstops you're talking about would help. Usually, if there's an obvious baseball field, it's a good candidate.
If the field is already a Wayspot, mark it a duplicate. If the field is not a Wayspot, rejected the backstop for not meeting criteria. It sounds like someone is trying to subdivided a field into its individual components, which I saw someone else do with a group of baseball fields and their respective scoreboards.
This is an example of something I would likely give decent marks to, assuming the title and description was done appropriately. Sure, it's "just" a fence, but the sports field overall provides a safe place for people to play and encourages sportsmanship and appreciation of the athletics, all while in a safe park. Sure, there are "bigger and better" nearby fields, but I assume this one has more accessibility and can be used more recreationally.
Thanks for the help folks!
Backstops are commonly substituted for signs in neighborhood parks and the backstop is the baseball field nomination object not sure where your getting the partition of a field. They are submitting the cage of the backstop as the nomination not home plate etc.
Ok, let me give the location where I had someone submitting both the field and the scoreboard separately:
Now imagine if they had placed the field's Wayspot along the sidelines and submitted the backstop separately, that would be three Wayspot for one field when there should only be one. @NianticCasey-ING can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is what Niantic intended. I'm not saying that the backstop isn't an appropriate place for the field's Wayspot, but that it does not qualify as a Wayspot of its own and would be a duplicate of the field's.
@TheFarix-PGO I'm not sure if I'm remembering right or not, but I thought he scoreboard could be it's own thing. As for the backstop, I'd say backstop if submitting the whole baseball court would be the same as submitting a hoop for the whole basket ball court or the goals for a soccer field..... but u wouldnt go 100%with that because I know nothing about baseball
@Tailpot while duplicate nominations are in fact what you described: the same nomination that already exists within the program that the nominator may not have seen when nominated. However, please keep in mind that our goal is not to ingest every possible POI to get as many Portals/Wayspots as possible, but rather to ingest unique, interesting, artistic or notable local hotspots where players could gather or learn/discover something about their community.
An athletic field is absolutely an example of this. An athletic field, the scoreboard on the field, the wall on the south end of the field, the home base on the field, the dugout of the field are not all eligible. In essence, these are all one singular gathering point so should be considered as a single Wayspot. If, however, there is a statue of a notable player on the team at the entrance to the field (and also not in the stands or on the field otherwise overlapping with the athletic field itself), that would be a separate Wayspot from the field.
@TheFarix-PGO ok so inwas wrong about the scoreboard. But the back stops is acceptable if its representing the field as a whole
Yea. The scoreboard shouldn't have been accepted, unless it somehow has significant local cultural value. However as the first Wayspot for the area, the backstop should be eligible as a nomination for the field as a whole.
Similar to your scoreboard, @TheFarix-PGO, I've seen people try to add both side dugouts and even "North Soccer Field A - Goal 1" & "North Soccer Field A - Goal 2."