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Let me continue with your own analogy. If you apply for a job and are told that you don’t meet the requirements (criteria) for the job, you can look back at the job listing to see what they wrote for Requirements/Qualifications. And then you need to make an honest evaluation of your own qualifications to determine if you really met them or if you only thought you met them and “could figure the rest out after you were hired.”

When a nomination is rejected because it doesn’t meet criteria, the submitter can go look at the criteria for Wayfarer as listed on official sites. We have given you references to the official criteria. We have listed the 3 main tenets of Wayfarer (socialize, exercise, exploration). We have pointed you to further criteria clarifications on Art and business signs on the Official Forum. We have given you advice based on our combined multiple years of experience in Wayfarer. We have given you pointers for how you could improve it to submit again (even though most of us don’t think that would be successful). We have pointed you to explanations of the rejection criteria that this falls under. We have even looked around the area to find places that would be easier to get approved if you wanted to submit those.

I don’t know how we could make this any more supportive or explain it better. There is a disconnect between what you think is eligible and what the ML process and experienced Wayfinders think is eligible. I absolutely welcome your participation here. But on this topic, I encourage you to think for a bit about all the information you’ve been given to try to understand it. We know that the rules of Wayfarer don’t come naturally to everyone. But if they just keep reading and absorbing the information here on the forum, they eventually start to get a feel for it.

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You have mentioned Ikea a couple of times, personally I would not find Ikea eligible in itself but they do tend to have a cafe (at least those local to me).

The cafe could be nominated as “Social”.

Some other “Big Stores” might have unique art or Public Notice Boards. The Art or Notice Board could be nominated even if the Store is not eligible.

You have received some good advise in this thread. I understand it can be frustrating but you are already half way there.

Step back, read the links above, try some of the suggestions and I am sure and I am sure you would be able to return in a couple of months explaining “how easy it is” once you understand and that you are getting success after success.

Good Luck.

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I have never seen an Ikea have a wayspot, but Ikea (at least some) frequently hosts workshops and events so would fit the socialize criterion. It’s generally understood that a generic business is one that doesn’t meet criteria and doesn’t have anything unique about it. A store that doesn’t host social events would only be eligible under the explore criterion, so you would have to prove how it is culturally and/or historically relevant.