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): [image] Additional Information (if any): Here’s a photo of this POI: [image] It’s …

I’m thinking mass-produced and generic/indistinct, being it’s art used in other Starbucks stores. [image] Itsutsume: they are still mass-produced from one original design for Starbucks.

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.

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-produ…

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

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.

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 m…

Invalid Wayspot - Coffee bean canvas

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Itsutsume January 9, 2025, 3:36am 13

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

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Invalid Wayspot - Coffee bean canvas

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