Title: Swallowtail & Pinecone
Newly submitted title: Swallowtail & Pinecone Painting
This coffeeshop has two great pieces of art by a local artist who also owns his own tattoo shop (which he even painted the sign for!). One, his Stellar’s jay mural, is already a POI, so I nominated the very large painting in the same building.
Ive submitted this twice and both rejections came back vague (various rejection criteria), possibly due to people not agreeing on why they thought it was ineligible. Unfortunately this means I can only guess on what is actually wrong with it, so I’m here for feedback.
Here are my assumptions and how I have attempted to solve these problems: temporary- in my newest upload I have mentioned it is affixed to the wall
Duplicate- as shown in the link i provided, they are two seperate art pieces by the same artist
Legitimacy/fake- i have included the link to the artists instagram as proof of its legitimately
Thats all i got, and i went to the lengths i could to resolve these concerns.
Here is the link provided in the supporting info:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BeE-PAMgfcO/
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Is this what you think they may have thought it was a duplicate of or not distinct from?
Coffee Bird
I don’t have the Wayfarer app so can only look at existing portals. Did you check with the Pogo Toggle in the nomination map screen to see if anything else is already a Wayspot that yours might have seemed too similar to?
I may be way off base on that portal. Was trying to figure out the coffee shop location from the Instagram link.
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No you’re good, admittedly I didn’t leave the location in because im probably being overly cautious, and that was my bad. In hindsight its just a coffeeshop so i shouldnt be worried about safety. It is indeed the Burnside Black Rock Coffee, and that is the same mural installed near the painting!
Edit: yeah I always try to look at the toggle, and there was nothing present before I made my first nomination. Here is the screenshot to be sure (the red pin is randomly placed to get it out of the way)
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Those reasons look like community review, so this might be a good candidate for appealing to Niantic human reviewers. They will actually look at links. You get 2 appeals, each on a 20 day timer before you can use it again.
I don’t submit much art, so maybe someone else will have better ideas on how to improve this, but I don’t see how it could be done much better. You show the art with enough wall space to understand what it is, and the supporting to show where it is, and you have links to prove it is a permanent installation that exists where you say it does. Unless your pin was weird, I would have accepted this.
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Thanks! The pin should be fine as far as I can tell- its a small building so i estimated best i could! I appreciate your feedback and reassurance. I might try to appeal it, but im not as confident ever since i appealed a decorative novelty eating space (big metal fake silo that had been painted on and turned into seating for a farm themed resteraunt) as a “regular sitting area” and the other more recent dubious appeal decisions that seem to match, but i will keep it in mind!
I saw this review recently and voted yes for it.
It is very close to many other POI’s and will probably not get into many games.
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I would have voted to accept this nomination for sure.
Reasons not to accept? I can only think of permanent. A painting can be taken down but a mural can be painted over.
As always just personal judgement of the reviewers.
For me it qualifies as explore and is heaps better than many that you see in game.
If it was me I would just resubmit…
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