I have accepted it because of his/her creative mind and passion for the Pokémon Go game.
But, later I have doubted, is it appropriate or inappropriate according to Wayfarer criteria??
I have accepted it because of his/her creative mind and passion for the Pokémon Go game.
I would argue that the Pokémon references are not relevant here, and so I would’ve rejected it because of the title. References to specific Niantic games are not permitted in the title or description, unless they are relevant to the wayspot. These are clearly regular rhinos, not a Nidoqueen and Nidoking.
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So rejection as “Bad Title” could be suitable?
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Yes that is exactly what I would do.
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Both the title and description do not meet criteria, so both can be rejected as low quality under Accuracy. I may also choose influencing reviewers under Abuse in Accuracy, as including the Pokémon could be seen as trying to influence reviewers into accepting the Wayspot.
I’m not using the Report button to reject this, BTW, just low qualify title/description, and influencing under Abuse in Accuracy.
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I don’t mind a bit of humour in titles or descriptions, I think this is simply an attempt at that. Nonetheless, it should be rejected.
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My instinct is that it doesn’t seem to be intentionally malicious, they probably did just think it was funny, so I would simply reject.
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Well it’s obviously a Pokémon Go Player on both ends of this review that got the reference and saw the humour in it same as me however…I would also be once of those people to give a rejection vote on mostly the title and description but where I can I do add other comments explaining why I rejected it.
I bet nobody reads half the nomination stuff anyways and just thinks “ohhhh I can get a badge here for my profile,let’s muck about” then it gives us genuine reviewers who care about the quality of the wayspots more work to do if it’s in our local area to investigate.
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I would reject this. I have no idea what that title or description says or is supposed to mean (prior to reading through this thread).
I honestly thought it might be a different language, so I’d probably Google it and see what came up. Since the POI has nothing to do with Pokemon, I would consider the text inaccurate and an inappropropriate game reference and pick the low quality title and description rejection reasons.
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I think calling this abuse is a stretch. It’s just someone attempting to make a humourous interpretation of the sculptures.
Low quality yes. Irrelevant? Absolutely. Abuse? Nah
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We don’t know this though, so, being I’m using my judgment, I will consider this influencing. It’s my call as to how I reject for accuracy, and even if they were just rying to be funny, I don’t know this. They could be doing this with other submissions, so it doesn’t hurt me to reject for the 3 reasons I mentioned.
If they aren’t regularly doing this, then most likely they will just get a warning and be told to review criteria, especially what is eligible for title/description.
Again, it’s my call, my judgment. And if Niantic has an issue with how I’m reviewing, they can let me know, too.
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Calling it abuse is excessive, there are far more egregious instances of abuse the team needs to worry about than this. I doubt they’d even issue a warning for this as it falls under “Don’t mention the games in your titles/descriptions” it’s a reason for rejection, not a case of abuse.
Do you consider every Pokémon GO reference you see abuse?
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Muting this as I said how I’d judge this, and I don’t need the last word
General advice for those looking in here for advice. Abuse should be reported when theres facts and evidence of abuse. While some abuse can be determined based on patterns, these patterns should not be assumed based on 1 review.
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NidoKing and NidoQueen are variations of a male/female Pokémon and criteria states “references in nominations to other games shall be frowned upon”.
I can see why they put this though as they want the database to be clean and accurate to use across multiple projects and future ones.