Just to simplify what has been stated above in to 1 comment the following bullet-points are the “normal” process, occasionally we get reports that this has not been followed 100%.
- Grace Period - 1 Day (allows time for you to check, edit or even withdraw nomination).
- Machine Learning (Auto process used to reject obvious bad nominations, can make mistakes, currently resting).
- In Queue - Random timescale, usually up to 7 days but can be delayed for other reasons. ***
- In Voting - Your nomination is sent to Local Reviewers for voting. Timescale depends on the number of Reviewers in your area and whether your nomination is an easy Accept / Reject or Grey Area where more people might decide to Skip.
- Results.
- If accepted this is only accepted in to the database, other checks are done with the main 1 being the proximity check. https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/why-an-accepted-wayspot-may-not-be-used-in-pokemon-go-s2-cells-and-pokemon-go
- If OK to appear in Pokemon Go it should appear within 48 from when it was Accepted.
*** Common reason to delay at this point is when you nominate 2 waypoints close by, this is to stop duplicates being voted at the same time. 1 will go in to voting, the other will wait until the first has completed.