So I notice that a lot of my nominations get rejected at first. I appeal them and they are accepted. Sometimes it feels people are rejecting nominations on purpose for no reason. I have two nominations rejected from last Saturday saying they are not permanent, which they clearly are. There’s even more of the same pokestops in the environment. If people would review them honestly they would have seen it and it would be no problem. Now I need to waste all my appeals and wait 20 days every time to get a pokestop nomination accepted.
Do any of you experience the same? I’ll put some examples in the pictures. De last picture is actually of a gym I found while traveling there and is also on campfire.
Is there anyway to get my appeals back? Bc my nominations get falsely rejected?
Also I have two of the same nominations who both stand in the other side of the park. One got accepted. One got rejected and even after appealing it got rejected. It’s so stupid. It’s so clear they were both benches given to the park as a monumental gift from the natur organisation here.
Even with the new improved rejection reasons we have some confusion: “not permanent” is actually “not permanent or distinct” - so if the review thinks that there are a lot of similar wayspots or the proposed wayspot isn’t interesting enough then they may vote to reject it.
All the things you submitted are potentially eligible I think, walking usually are highly acceptable but it does help to give a good title and description and add some citations in the supporting text - a link to a website describing the trail is ideal.
With trail markers, don’t give them all the same name… if you can locate them in relation to their surroundings than that’s great, e.g. east of something road, north of somewhere farm. That can be difficult to do in the field, but if you set the submissions to upload later you can submit when ready and edit them in Wayfarer.
Although sometimes you’ll have to resort to numbers for trailmarkers, I would strongly advise against using them anywhere else. So something like “Picnic Bench 2” will almost definitely look not distinct.
This is the same sign as you are showing as the nomination, what would make the same sign in different locations be distinct GREAT locations for socializing, exploration or exercising?
This is not actually bike route 12, it is a marker that points to node 12 in the bicycle network. So it would benefit from the correct title and description.
Its a massive national park by far you won’t see all the entrances of the park. It really depends on where you’re staying. On “my” part of the park there wasn’t such sign as a pokestop which makes it a great place to show where you can enter the park, go socialize, follow hiking or biking trails or just a stroll to enjoy nature. Also don’t forgot these signs have been accepted and get accepted all the time. Imo it’s childish to say it’s not distinguishing enough bc which park is gonna make a different sign for all its entrances? The national park also has to be recognizable and show its “brand” for people to know where they are.
As for the bikingtrail it is actually route 12 which you’re following when you’re on that trail. It’s a trailmarker of a bikingtrail and it’s definitely permanent. Is it distinguishable no but again for these things I hope they use the same plagues bc people will get lost if they have all different colors and logos and shapes.
Thanks for you reply I didn’t know about the invisible distinct part.
It’s difficult to make different names bc it’s such a big park I could never see all the signs which may or may not have been submitted already and their name. As I’m not gonna walk everywhere. That said: imo it should be correct and I often use the title of the plague so it’s recognized by people. I want them to see and read what they spin and have in front of them. In the description I would mention “south entrance” for example if i specifically knew that.
I think it’s weird that there’s hundreds of these stops being accepted and 100 not. But when you appeal they always make it. People shouldn’t be crying so much about the distinction of it bc it mostly is on a whole other place in a park, city, etc and its environment is looking way different so your experience is way different as well. I assume we as a community want people to enjoy different views and surroundings and don’t care about the distinctness of the stop. The goal is to go out and explore your area, not to see how many pokestops look alike.
I’m just waiting to appeal them so they will get accepted. Sadly have to waste my appeals for this.
That is by no means a reflection of the wayfarer criteria. Plenty of existing wayspots are not according to the criteria and will be removed when reported. One should therefore never use existing wayspots to determine eligibility.
It is not, that sign is pointing to this node, which can be found here Google Maps
OpenStreetMap can be a great resource to find the names of things that aren’t listed on Google Maps, e.g. OpenStreetMap shows the names of the individual woods and hills. Other local maps may have richer details too.
Sometimes very old maps have details which have been forgotten on modern maps - oldmapsonline.org is a good place to look. They’ll also tell you what used to be in a location which can make for a more interesting wayspot - for example there are several maps of (I think) this area at Old maps of Harskamp
