Is this a fair rejection from the Wayfarer Team? This is one of a few rejections I have received and I don’t know if I want to bother appealing these or not.
Weirdly, it does seem to be the current description… but did you notice the typo. Question mark.
My tuppence worth, I’d probably vote to reject even without the typo as it adds nothing to the waypoint. Obviously the church in located in Northolt, and Northolt itself dates back to Saxon times… the edit doesn’t really add anything.
There’s a lot of scope to write a good description though, the challenge is to condense it down to a few sentences - St Mary with St Richard, Northolt - Wikipedia
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In the past, I have had text denied by Niantic with the reasoning “…we cannot verify the text is accurate.” If you do appeal the edit, you may need to find evidence of the time period you refer to.
Based on criteria, I disagree with this statement. Based having slogged through “pointless” edits, I agree with the sentiment of not wanting to accept an edit explicitly value added.
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Interesting. Even though I didn’t spot the accidental period, there was no description when I submitted the edit via Pokemon Go. I could resubmit with fuller and better description, but the description covers a brief history of the church.
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For more complex wayspots, I prepared the description in advance and then saved it to Google Drive, pasting it into the description when I was near enough to the wayspot. Of course some of those still got rejected…
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I sometimes plan when it comes to doing nominations, but not always when it comes to doing edits.
Pokémon GO players are at a distinct disadvantage for on-the-fly edits…
Just another reason it really helps to have an Ingress account able to contribute.
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Yep. I’m at Level 8 on Ingress. I still can’t get my head around the game. Not joined any local teams / factions in person to learn the ins and outs. I use the Ingress Maps primarily to help me find locations that needs some extra waypoints. I do wish there was the ability to do remote edits in Pokemon Go, but I’ll manage for now.
Yeah, I wouldn’t have rejected this for “Saxon. Period.” Such a small typo that can by corrected. Reminds me of the Wayspot for a taco shop I submitted back in October that had typos in the description, was approved, so I had to go back and update the description. Now burrito is spelled correctly, but I didn’t notice until after it was approved.
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Oh I wouldn’t have rejected a SUBMISSION with that description, but for an edit I’d hope for a bit more detail about the church itself.
I probably should have spent more time digging out the history of this church and the importance of the church to the community, but it’s not always easy to to write descriptive edits for something like this.
It had no description, so they were adding one. Some type of description is better than no description.
I sometimes see edits where the original had no description, e.g.:
‘Wellesley Park’, and the proposed description reads: ‘A park’, which seems like it’s worse than no description.
Other times each of the choices has a flaw, and I try to determine if one bad description is less egregious than the others or perhaps no description is preferable.
In the original example it might have been better to say something like “The current church building seems to have remained largely unchanged for more than four centuries. It is believed that a church has stood on this site since Anglo-Saxon times.”
Links would be good if they’re available, but in PoGo it can be quite a pain to put everything together while out in the elements. If all you have available is word of mouth, speculation or opinion then using wiggly language might help avoid rejection.
Unfortunately, in Description edits, you can’t provide links as providing supporting info is not an option. If the church was a brand new nomination, I would have been happy to provide all the links needed. Maybe we need supporting information boxes for submitting Title and Description edits (as optional dialog boxes).
Hmm, this discussion is still going so I will weigh in. Fair and reasonable, idk, but not egregiously incorrect imo. I don’t think I would appeal this, since there is a typo, and, as far as you know, that could have been the reason it was rejected.
I know this is easy to say for Ingress submitters, but I would resubmit the same edit without the typo before I appealed. Then appeal that one with evidence if it is rejected again, and the rejection appears to be about content.
But if you really want to know why they rejected it, and have the appeals to spare, it would really be interesting to appeal this rejection.
It looks like someone has submitted the edit with the correction. Not sure who, but whoever did, thanks.
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If I had this in review I would accept. I’d rather have a minor typo and a reasonable description rather than a blank.
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I have to say, and completely off topic now someone else has edited. But the description is not quite right…
The church sits on the site of an early Anglo Saxon settlement (8th century).
But the Church itself or a church on the site does not extend to that Anglo Saxon period. And it is known as a pre-Christian period. And the current church is known to have 13th century elements. Even the Doomsday book makes no mention of a church in the 11th century (1086) - though some people suspect a church may have existed as a priest had 60 acres of land there at that time. And the Doomsday book was very very thorough as the Normans used it for tax purposes 
Just saying the way I read the description. Not quite right.
Local Church dating back to the 13th century around 1230AD. Extensively restored in 2006. The church sits on the site of a pre-Christian Anglo Saxon settlement that dates back to the 8th century.
I can’t remember the source off hand, but it may have been from History – SMwSR. It may be inacurate or I may have inadvertantly mis-stated what I read.
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Me tienen cansado rechazando mis propuestas , siempre tienen algun problema distinto. Hace 9 años que juego , solo 1 pokeparada me aceptaron . Cuando le pongo mucho cuidado a lo que nomino , y después por ahi ves que cualquier cosa es una pokeparada. Son lamentables , no se olviden que no todos vivimos en grandes centros urbanos.