Hi! I’m very new to wayfarer and finding my way around everything. I’ve made a few contributions, some were rejected and others accepted.
This morning I made a nomination. I live in a pretty small town (5.000-ish people). I checked the map, to made sure it wasn’t already created and just not in the game and then submitted.
A few hours later i was reviewing when my suggestion popped up! The picture is ALMOST identical, and the text is also almost the same - with the exception that the second part of the reasoning is written in English.
My contribution is still in queue, and not yet in voting.
Should I do something? Cancel it or wait and see? What if one is rejected and the other accepted?
It did not exist anywhere visible for me, when I made my submission.
Thanks in advance - I’m still doing my best to understand and follow the rules.
I’ve had this happen to me when I moved, found an eligible POI that definitely wasn’t in the system, submitted it and it got rejected for being a duplicate. Just bad timing.
Since your submission was still in the queue, it can’t be that someone saw it and copied it since no-one has seen it yet. I would only be concerned if your text is bespoke and fairly long.
I definitely took all the photos myself! At first glance i thought the other nomination was an edited version of my own, but concluded that it wasn’t possible. The other person and me have simply taken the photos from the exact same angle. So weird!
Fyi, if you allow your nomination to be voted on and it is marked duplicate, your photo will be added to the existing stop. There is no harm or danger to your account if this happens.