I’ve uploaded several nominations for Pokéstops in the past few weeks and nearly all of them have been rejected. I’ve tried re-uploading them several times doing my best to fit the guidelines and they just keep getting rejected. I’ve tried a roundabout, a memorial sign, park benches, park jogging path lamps, and nothing us getting approved. All of them are in the same park, the sign and the roundabout a nearby as well. In the same park there is a disc golf course, and most of the holes are already wayspots, so I tried to fill in the 2 missing ones and only one of them got approved. It is the only nomination that has been approved. Is there something I’m doing wrong? I’ve checked my pictures over and over again, checked that the locations are accurate, they’re in a popular public space right next to a jogging path. I feel like they should be getting approved but I just keep getting rejected. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?
Hey, roundabouts are not eligible on its own, and as a location, if they don’t have official pedestrian access for example through crosswalks, they are always ineligible through unsafe access it doesn’t matter if you can interact with it from outside
Other than that, the candidates from your description sound eligible, but maybe something is missed. Can you show these here by Screenshoting all the text and pictures from your contributions page?
The individual holes should not have been accepted. See this clarification:
The game locations for these are usually removed when reported, except for one to represent the entire course.
Hi and welcome!
This sounds potentially eligible, would you mind sharing screenshots of your nomination?
None of these sound like something I would approve. A wayspot must meet criteria stated here: Wayspot Criteria — Wayfarer Help Center
None of these sound like a particularly great place for exercise, exploration or being social. The benches and lamps sound like simply infrastructure. A roundabout normally does not have safe pedestrian access besides just not being intrinsically interesting. And memorials should be for someone important to the community:
I know that it is frustrating when everything you submit gets rejected. I recommend going through that Criteria Clarification Collection section and studying that criteria link before trying again. If there are specific ones you really think should have been accepted, you can share screenshots from your contributions page for advice. I do better discussing one at a time.
If you want to share the location, some people on the forum are good at looking at the map and making suggestions. But be sure to protect your privacy if you do.
I hope we can help you be successful!
As you state this is around the Park can you confirm whether you mean a Traffic Roundabout for cars or the type that would be found in a childs play park?
Thanks, I didn’t realize that they weren’t eligible.
Ohhh okay. I’ll make sure to report the extras then. And I should just leave the 1st hole to represent the course?
I just went to screenshot it but the quality of the picture in my nominations page is really crappy, so I might just try to redo that one, I thought it was fine when I took it.
It’s a road one, I didn’t realize that those aren’t eligible but that has since been clarified!
I think most of them have been cleared up by other replies, and yeah they don’t really meet eligibility. Thanks for your help though!
One thing I’d say about a park bench is if its a group of benches, it can be a place to socialise, and if the bench has a pretty view that might be a place to explore. You can also use a bench to anchor a park area if it doesn’t have a sign.
So it’s not the bench being completely ineligible, but there needs to be a reason why, linked to the criteria for socialise, exercise or explore. Otherwise its “just a bench”, hence the rejection. Does that make sense?
Here’s 3 benches I had accepted in the last few days, due to the pretty views/social aspect of picnics
