Hey guys, I’ve been seeing a lot of actually decent and eligible nominations popping up on my feed but a lot of them have extremely generic titles like “playground” or “gazebo” or just “garden”. And they’re all really decent nominations as well, the straightforward kind that should be accepted rather than not.
But would it be correct or in good spirit to rate these titles as low quality or should we just let them through? My bare minimum of a title would be to at least add the local place name to it like “Greenview Playground” y’know?
And I feel a little sorry as well, because I’m rating these in a very multilingual country in Asia, whose people sometimes can’t find the words to come up with a decent title, let alone description.
Am I being a little harsh? What’s the standard here?
Some people will accept these nominations on the basis that someone can always come along later and provide an edit to improve the title. The wayspot itself is what is important.
There is always the possibility with a minimal title that there is something wrong with the submission. It may not exist, it may already be in the system, the location might be wrong and so on.
Personally, I am harsh and reject for the title, since it does clearly state when submitting wayspots that you should provide a unique title (“Enter a unique, detailed title here”). Although this is the English version, I fully expect that a similar message appears in every language. These titles appear on postcards, amongst other places, so do have a purpose in the game.
I cannot imagine that, regardless of language issues, anyone can’t find the words to come up with a better title than “garden”.
You can rate the title as idk on quality without rejecting the nomination completely.
Edited in a link to a comment from Niantic staff on a previous discussion about text quality"
I’ll tend to vote IDK on the title if it’s vague but otherwise correct.
It was rather useful in Ingress to have unique titles so you could more easily understand what was happening around you, other Niantic games don’t interact with wayspots in the same way. Even so, having things like a load of identically named trail markers can be confusing.
Absolutely! The person will learn that naming everything “Gazebo” will lead to confusion in time.
Well the stack of identically named trail markers was me to be honest. It did give me the motivation to give them better names, which is a lot easier when you can do some research away from the field.
I learned the same way! Got to level 12 in Ingress to be able to submit those edits, back in the day. Hmm… or was that just location edits? It has been too long.
Edited to note that Ingress is not connected to Wayfarer now.
Ah what i gather from this old post, and from NianticAaron is that you shouldn’t reject a title for being generic/same as other wayspots…
I feel like a bunch a players will kick themselves when they ask themselves which “street shrine” was reported to have a hundo larvitar or something.
And what does the “I don’t know” button really do by the way? I hardly use it.
IDK is an inbetween 
and 
vote. When I can’t completely say something is great, but I don’t think it should not be on the map for that reason, I could use IDK. Most reviews I have done in this system have included at least one IDK.
And do we know what the consequence behind the button is, technically speaking? Like would a nomination with all IDKs go through? Or with just one IDK? Or if it gets rejected and there are specific rejection reason messages?
I think it’s just a way of scoring, imagine a thumbs up is a +1 and an IDK is a +0. The Wayfarer team will never reveal how the voting actually works..
We don’t know exactly how it is factored in. It would contribute to a lower total score. We have been told with the current review system to thumbs down one of the first four questions to reject:
haha ok that puts everything well into perspective. I now know how I’ll feel next time I’m reviewing