Difficulty giving artistic point of interest their official title

Hey,
I don’t think its surprising to anyone if I say there are some lazy submissions that make it in the database. As a art consumer and someone who believes artists should be properly credited, I try my best to create informative POIs or update them giving their official title and interesting information a curious person might enjoy reading.

While editing existing POIs, I stumbled upon a problem: Machine Learning takes my edits and rejects them. From my understanding, art sculptures often are named after random words, concepts or sayings. I’m also in Quebec, where half the wayspots are in French and half are in English. Therefore, to Emily, “metallic sculpture” is more accurate than whatever french word the artist used for their title. Since Emily takes them, the community can’t vote on them. I don’t think appeals are the solution, with two appeals a month I won’t be done for 10 years, but that didn’t stop me from trying. To my surprise, they are no help since the reviewers reject the official titles (even when a source is provided :exploding_head:).

I guess this post is made to see if I can have some rejections overturned and to shed light to this issue. I noticed the problem happens mostly for art pieces but is not limited to them. I’ll be listing the rejections I feel like were unfair so you can see for yourself. Thank you :slight_smile:

Carrefour
Official name: Bureau d'Art Public - Ville de Montréal | Carrefour


L’étreinte
Official name: https://artpublicmontreal.ca/en/oeuvre/letreinte/


Cactus modulaire
Official name: Cactus modulaire - Wikipedia


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Oops I didn’t scroll down far enough before replying that you could appeal the first one because you already have appealed the other two. Did you add those links to your appeals?

@NianticAaron this looks like proof to me that the suggested titles are the correct ones. Can these rejected appeals be overturned?

I did add those links to my appeals. Thank you for escalating this :slight_smile:

Well, I have no pull or official position, but I thought I should tag Aaron since he has been helpful in replying when mistakes are made on appeals, and I thought this might get lost over the weekend without a tag.

Did anyone ever look at this? It seems like the appeals for the edits were rejected incorrectly to me. Could an ambo move this to Wayspot Appeals ?

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I have mived this. @NianticAaron could you take a look at these incorrect appeals.

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I see that the requested changes for the last two were made already. I have edited the title of the first one to reflect the official title.

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