I just got a review for an edit that I made in December of 2024, and was approved in March of this year.
I didn’t take a screenshot, because I didn’t realize what was happening until I had already voted.
This is weird right?
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Is it possible that someone else came along and submitted a minor edit to the description, after yours had gone through?
How different was the text before your edit?
With my old eyes (and brain) I can’t spot the difference… 
Oh, that’s just because when you look at a description edit that has been accepted, you can’t see what the OLD description was. Only what your suggested description is and what the description now is, which will nearly always be the same.
It’s a little frustrating, but you have to go back to the original submission confirmation email to see what the old description was.
It would have been so easy to have an additional section for “Old Wayspot Description”, but Niantic never excelled themselves when it came to implementing what look like obvious things to lots of users.
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After an edit has been accepted, Wayfarer shows the new content for both current and proposed slots. Multiple photos can be seen and thumbed, but nobody sees the old text any more…
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You expressed this much more clearly than I could manage.
Thanks for the reply, I will stop worrying that my brain has totally gone… 
Yep, sounds like someone else submitted an edit, so being yours was accepted, you’re going to see the current description alongside of the suggested edit(s), hence why you saw your accepted description alongside the edit(s). So, it’s not a bug, just how the system works.
The description previously was pretty much the same, I just added “held in Durham Region on the 26th and 27th of September 1975”
Unless someone went back and is trying to remove the part I added because their petty? Or they think too much detail is bad? I have no idea.
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The only way this is right is if the new edit is attempting to change it back to exactly the description that it was before my edit was accepted.
Every person have right to change description. If he / she believe his/her description is better, he /she can submit edit to change it
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No I get that, I just find it hard to believe that someone would try and revert it back to exactly the same description that it was before I edited it.
Perhaps its someone who is local with more attachment to the wayspot or the original nominator
Do you remember what the old description was and if the one you saw was similar to it?
The original description was “The Cairn of Peace was placed here to commemorate the 22nd World Ploughing Contest”
I only added “held in Durham Region on the 26th and 27th of September 1975” to the end of it.
The review I got was editing it back to exactly what it was before I did my edit.
The simplest explanation is the most likely one and doesn’t require any system errors:
After your edit was accepted, someone went in and submitted an edit to remove your extra text.
Doesn’t matter that that doesn’t make a lot of sense (why would someone bother degrading information) as it’s still the simplest explanation and I’d run with that
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My brain doesn’t want to accept that as the reason though lol
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Could it be an older edit (edit challenge?) and they only tried to add a period?
I think most edits from that challenge were cleared out in the last review challenge, so I’d say highly unlikely. It seems more likely that someone just wants the old description back for unknown reasons.
Weird but don’t reckon it will be a problem.
When reveiwing as long as both are equally written (spelling / grammer) I would always go for the one with more info and assume others would to.
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