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Hello, please explain to me how this can be perceived as a normal fence? this fence has been there for over 12 years (that’s how long I’ve been living in this place) and the house next door has the same fence, but was newly built. in the city next door there are pokestops and gyms generated in photoshop and accepted. Regards

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Welcome @Predictor

Is this fence around a single family home? If so, it isn’t eligible.

Unfortunately the rejection communication isn’t always very helpful. But if you can show us your original nomination, including description and supporting information we may be able to give you more insight.

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This is a fence for multi-family houses. Please explain to me what the difference is between a fence that you can touch while walking down the street and a painting on the wall of the house behind the fence, which shows Jesus and Mary, because I have seen many such stops. This fence is on the route along which children walk to the playground. and there is a tourist attraction. in the city next to the pokestop there is an ordinary street lamp on the road on which someone pasted in photoshop a girl holding a balloon

Google lists only one house number at this location (35), and both satellite view and a nearby drone photo do not offer any evidence that this is not a single family dwelling. If it genuinely is a multi-occupancy building, then it’s up to you as the submitter to provide proof of this. Otherwise, as the property boundary of a single family private residence, the fence would be ineligible (which is a shame, as it is a nice fence, but those are the rules).

If you see such stops that are on private residential property, you can report them for removal in game. They shouldn’t exist if they’re on a single family private residence.

That sounds like abuse and should be reported as such. There is an abuse form linked at the top of the forum.

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I also don’t understand how sometimes graffiti on a wall can be a pokestop, where in a month it will be cleaned by the cleaning services, and the fence that has been decorating the area for 12 years can’t be a pokestop

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Graffiti shouldn’t be approved as a Waypoint either, and should meet removal criteria as it’s temporary.

Sometimes things slip through that shouldn’t, either because people don’t know better or they’re deliberately trying to game the system.

the sad thing is that Niantic used to be happy with every player’s move as long as the game started and people wanted to play it. If you check Singapore or Tokyo, 40% of pokestops are not allowed. Well, as you often see, this game is mostly intended only for specific countries, and small towns are deserted, and it’s no wonder that the playability is decreasing since in my city there is only one pokestop on a 2 km long street. Recently in Munich, someone left their wellies on the lawn and used it as a pokestop. I don’t understand it, sad.

Niantic is making efforts to clean up the map. Though this isn’t always a popular opinion. But in areas where proximity/density abuse happened in years past they have been resetting the map. This, at least, gets the right number of wayspots in an area.

I think future efforts will be to make sure the quality of each wayspot is good. That is harder since the eligibility has changed over the years, while proximity/density has stayed the the same.

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I can see dozens of wayspots in the town of Dingolfing, where you attempted to submit this nomination. Not all of them will be in Pokémon Go, but a decent percentage of them should be.

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Hello! I see the necessity of pointing that the first statement is not completely correct in my opinion. We always need to understand the social context where the explorer is submitting the nomination. There are some countries where graffitis are not temporary as they won’t be removed soon or never. There are countries where some business pay artists to paint the walls or close doors with a graffiti. The ones that should be removed are the vandalistic tags as their name says, is part of vandalism. Here you can read what criteria says about graffitis, murals and other urban art: Unique Art ^^

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Point taken, I was really just thinking about vandalization tags in that comment.

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so there is no chance that this fence could be a pokestop?

If it’s the fence for a SFPRP sadly I have to say no, it’s a private property.