So let me get this straight I live in a town with 30 bars in 4 blocks straight with 10-15 Pokémon waypoints ok but I try to nominate my local food store and it gets rejected because they also sell alcohol” it’s 2 close or is a adult location. Then what and the &$¥€! Is a bar lol messed up.
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I looked up the bit of the sign I can see in your screenshot, and the website I was sent to makes me think the appeal reviewer was correct:
For over 25 years, Jenny’s Party Store has been your trusted, family-owned liquor store
If this is not the correct store, did you provide a link to the correct one in your nomination or appeal? But, that said, a “local food store” would also not normally meet criteria.
It seems liquor store that under ineligible category
If this is not correct you are welcome to provide additional information.
They literally are a convenience store that has cell phones clothes food and yup liquor bars have liquor and there pokestop a wtf
A bar that serves food and allows in minors can be a great place to be social - one of the criteria.
Even without the liquor part, how does a convienence store meet any of the criteria of a great place to exercise, explore, or be social? I believe that the rejection focusing on them selling liquor is just one they could have chosen, and is the clearest explanation.
If the bar you referenced is 21 and over only, it should not be a pokestop. Mistakes do happen. But the screenshot you edited in is for the mural outside the location, and is a gray area as to eligibility.
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I am sorry but this is not criteria for acceptance
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If you would like to read up on criteria to try to find something near where you kick it that might be eligible, here is a guide:
The games that use the Wayfarer points of interest are for people of all ages therefore, way spots need also be for people of all ages, which is why adult only locations are ineligible. It sounds like if indeed there are adult only bars in your community that have been accepted as wayspots, they should be reported and removed. Sometimes things that shouldn’t be in the database, make it in because not all reviewers adhere to or understand eligibility requirements.
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I see this business nearby, and it seems to be for all ages from their website. You might try this:
This is a business where you exericise with others while learning skills, making it meet all criteria.
There is also a Google Label for “Martial Arts Connection” but I couldn’t bring up the website listed there. It could also be a good nomination if it isn’t just a school for kids. K-12 is ineligible.
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I recently had an appeal reviewer tell me that my historic building was not eligible because it was a liquor store. It is very obviously not a liquor store, I wonder if something has changed, or the training has slipped even more for whoever they outsource these things to? Frustrating.
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If you disagree with appeal , you can make your post and get evidence. Staff might reverse the decision depending on extra evidence.
I would post here in the forums about that appeal. It sounds like a bad decision by the appeals team, and staff has asked us to post here when we do disagree with an appeal rejection.
Do make sure to create a new thread for yours, as this is a different case.
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I wasn’t suggesting that the location in your picture is not a liquor store, indeed, it does definitely appear to be so. I was mentioning my experience where something that was clearly not one was marked as such by a poor appeals reviewer.
@TjoeMi @DTrain2002 I could challenge the appeal but it isn’t a nomination that I’m precious about, I don’t really feel like expending more energy on it and I am not keen to have others picking apart my submission just now. Mostly just venting that the appeals reviewers are still making obvious mistakes. Good advice for others in a similar situation though.
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what is your point here?
@Raahhdaddy please be respectful of other wayfinders
Street view and weblink show that it is liquor store. If its not true, you can try appeal but personally i wont bet on it.