Newish member here 
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With the freakishly long wait times between “in queue” to “in voting”. All this spare time has made me kinda curious.
What’s your individual not accepted/accepted ratio?
So far I’m at 3 not accepted and 0 accepted.
With 2 more “in queue” at the moment.
hopefully the 2 get accepted
HEY @KingCharlie626
A big majority of mine have been accepted. I have only been doing – this year though.
I did come to this forum as soon as I started — so got the info on how to present a nomination.
i also did quite a few reviews to get an idea how everything works. After a while I got the feel for what is accepted in my locality. Everywhere seems to be different. Once you know how the voters in your area are likely to vote things are much easier. At least that’s my experience.
Criteria are important but locally you need to learn which way the wind is blowing. When reviewing you check it’s not a duplicate. I will have a look on the map to see what has already been accepted nearby. Usually, the criteria are followed. Sometimes, I have found things that just always seem to get accepted and conversely things that don’t.
Good luck with your endeavours !!
In the past, it was not uncommon to have to submit something eligible multiple times to get it accepted. And it took over 2 years to get a decision without an upgrade. Since ML has been deciding my reviews since March until this recent pause, my accept rate is way up. But with nothing in queue, my current stats are:
Accepted 1114
Rejected 352
Any submissions you want advice on, you can post in Nomination Support
I think the only nominations I’ve had rejected was when I started, and later asked the community if they did meet criteria, which they didn’t. Some of the LFLs I nominated were on PRP, and I looked that up and found out why they were rejected and didn’t appeal. All of these were over a year ago; I started Wayfarer around July 2023.
Since then, most of my nominations have been accepted, and most by ML. It’s hard to find anything new to nominate where I am, so a good deal of my focus these days is submitting edits.
As for how long it can take for a decision to be made, it varies from area to area, based on how many reviewers there are. Depending on the number of reviewers in your area, it can take days, weeks, months, even years for a decision. Reviewing yourself can help keep your local queue down, as well as help you earn upgrades. For every 100 agreements, you get 1 upgrade, which you can apply to submissions, and they are then opened up to a larger review area, and may be decided on sooner.
Welcome! Individual ratios really depend on when you started as at various times in the history of Wayfarer or OPR the odds for the same type of submission were very different - my ratio used to be abysmal and in later years it got better. I am still the same submitter. Some of this, as said above, is about community dynamics and the moment of ML review introduction, and not about your quality as a Wayfinder.
The one thing that can help you improve this ratio is community advice - people on here are really good at helping improve a submission to give it better chances of approval, or at helping find something alternative in the area if it sounds like the object being nominated has really low odds (unfortunately we can’t always get everything we want approved - this is also part of the experience). 3 is likely too early to draw statistics, but don’t hesitate to share those rejections in Nomination Support , I’m sure the community can help. Hang in there, there is a learning curve but I promise it most definitely gets better.
Do you mean nominations accepted or rejected, or agreements on Wayfarer reviews (i.e found at Niantic Wayfarer)?
they talked about in queue so i responded with contributions
My reply is regarding own nominations considering the “in queue” context, but happy to amend if that assumption is incorrect 
One of my accepted nominations took 10 tries, not including other players also submitting it.
Wooden footbridge over a stream on a park trail, for context.
So yeah my ratio would look awful, because of stuff like that, and trail markers too which often took 3, 4, 5+ tries
Also when I started appeals weren’t a thing so you’d have to resubmit where now its often better to jusr appeal.
I would definitely ask for help here on how to make the nominations as good as possible and when its right to resubmit or appeal. If you believe in your nomination then its okay to keep trying. If you’re showed how it doesn’t meet critieria then at least you know and can stop trying and find something else
rejections are absolutely part of the process
once i started using the wayfarer tools and could see nomination streetview, i finally figured out that there was (is?) a professional photographer making gorgeous photospheres and dropping them just anywhere. he didn’t care about accuracy since that was not his purpose, but reviewers were seeing those and rejecting my nominations. i am so glad that reviewers see satellite view first now.
same for me with having to submit and resubmit before appeals! i still recommend trying a second time at least before appealing. and even the rejected appeal statement says something like
We suggest that you add more information explaining why this business is important for the local community in a new nomination.
i have one award winning restaurant (winning over and over for decades) that took five nomination and two appeals before being accepted.
You learn far more from getting things wrong than if you to get it right without really knowing why 
I’m old and have made lots of mistakes so I have learnt a lot 
Hmm, seems like there should be a way to contact Google to tell them those photospheres are not located correctly.
i reported so many of these! i did get some removed. but google doesn’t really care about the accurate placement either. this one is my favorite example
I tend to find photospheres to be quite accurate, but they’re really hard to make these days. I really don’t know why Google blocked it.
Photo Paths are Google’s preferred replacement, basically you do a StreetView-style path of 360 degree photos using your own equipment. The accuracy of these can be woeful, so they’re of limited use.
maybe i did not explain the situation. this is a professional photographer. he does not place them accurately. i don’t care about making photospheres, and am glad they are not the first thing reviewers see anymore. ty for trying to help.
My ratio is abysmal because I started contributing right around November 2024 when the ML evidently had something broken. From around 20 nominations I only got like 3 in the voting phase, and the only one currently accepted was due to an appeal from an obviously abusive rejection reason. Every other one was rejected by “Wayfarer criteria” in less than a day.
I had little faith in being able to nominate anything at all back then but since December started things apparently have gotten better as the ML doesn’t seem to be picking up anything at all anymore. But this of course means new stuff are getting stuck forever in the queue phase. My hunch is that Niantic realized the ML was acting wonky and shut it down entirely for now.
Wayfinders have reported that Emily has been rejecting nominations.
