Invalid Wayspot - Coffee bean canvas

Wayspot Appeals
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  • Wayspot Title: Coffee bean canvas
  • Location (lat/lon): Ingress Intel Map / 34.187753,-118.397278
  • City: Los Angeles, CA
  • Country: USA
  • Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):

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  • Additional Information (if any):

Here’s a photo of this POI:

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It’s actually a part of a bigger design:

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And this design can be seen in various Starbucks, either on a canvas, or on a wall inside, or on a wall outside.

Here’s some Turkish design studio that made 3 of these in different locations in Turkey:

http://www.basakatalay.com/en/mural-artwork/starbucks-sakarya.html
http://www.basakatalay.com/en/mural-artwork/starbucks-mersin.html
http://www.basakatalay.com/en/mural-artwork/starbucks-narmanli.html

Here’s one from Starbucks in Indonesia:

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Here’s one from Starbucks in England:

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Here’s a link to a company in Canada that makes canvases - that’s where I got the second picture from.

Here’s Starbucks in Switzerland.

Here’s Starbucks in Korea.

Here’s Starbucks in unknown location, but considering the guy uses “metre”, I assume it’s somewhere in Europe.

Here’s Starbucks in Redmond, WA:

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Here’s Starbucks in Largo, FL:

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This is what I was able to find on the Internet, but I’m sure there’s way more of them around the world.

While all these paintings and murals are not 100% the same (some use 3D elements, some use different colors) and they all are hand-made, they are still mass-produced from one original design for Starbucks.

Please remove this wayspot.

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What is the removal reason?

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I’m thinking mass-produced and generic/indistinct, being it’s art used in other Starbucks stores.

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That’s not a removal reason.

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Exactly.

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The removal reason is this is a mass-produced item that shouldn’t have been nominated, let alone approved. And no, I don’t need a lecture that removal criteria and eligibility/acceptance criteria are different.

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Mass-production is not a removal reason. Removal criteria is more strict than approval criteria. I can easily see how someone thought this was an original art piece, not mass produced, and nominated it, and the community didn’t bother to check that it’s in a Starbucks.

There’s a lot of mass-produced things with Wayspots in the world that we would love to get rid of, but right now it can’t be done unless it meets one of the removal reasons on the removal request screen, and mass-produced is not a reason.

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Please be respectful to all on the forums. We are just trying to help you understand why your appeal will most likely be rejected.

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Thanks for the appeal, @Itsutsume. We took another look at the Wayspot in question and decided that it does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.

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So mass-produced items like these are allowed, but mass-produced items like these are not allowed?

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Think of it this way: the Starbucks art you reported isn’t in every store, while the Blaze Pizza logo is and is an advertisement, not art. There’s a Blaze Pizza where I live, so I’ve seen the logo while driving by. I personally haven’t seen that specific artwork in any of my local Starbucks.

It may be mass-produced art, but it’s still art, not an ad, hence why it doesn’t meet removal criteria.

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Do remember that each case is individually assessed about removal.
Each will be looked at holistically.
The result of one appeal does not set any precedence about another for removal and does not provide “case law” for accepting a nomination.
They are different things.

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