I refuse to claim public footpath markers are trails in my own submissions. I do however provide a description of where the path takes you and where you can go from there, so mine would get rejected by you 
I expect you are aware of Trails & Markers , which says that the generic public footpath signs are good submissions (provided everything else is OK - location, title, description etc), but am posting it just in case you’re not. Since you appear to be disagreeing with this clarification, it might be better to skip the footpath reviews instead of rejecting them (unless the location, title, description etc deserve a rejection). (no offense intended!)