Park without signage

Could this park (location - 52.911603,-1.117104) get accepted without any signage, its a gated field with trees, it has a name (miss machins field - its on openstreetmap and the links as proof) but no signage. Here are some links of the local council calling it a park when improving the area.

Also if this park could get accepted where would I take the photo.

After some research she (miss machin who the field is named after) was a wealthy person who who lived in the village. She owned a big piece of land that she sold and it got turned into a housing development in the 70s. She gave this field to the council as a way of saying thank you to the village asking for it be preserved after her death.

It looks like a valid wayspot - you have links backing up this place having a specific name and being considered to be a local park. The anchor looks best at the entrance, which hopefully is in a different cell to the village signpost to the west.

You just have to get it past eMiLy and reviewers, or be up to appealing it when it fails one of these. The guidelines clearly state that parks like this can be eligible.

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What’s eMily?

An acronym, sometimes written as Emily, for the machine-learning (ML) system that Niantic/Scopely use to weed out coal. Some people might call this AI; I don’t.

For a while it was used to accept submissions, which meant they got reviewed very quickly, but Niantic found it was accepting substandard submissions, so that hasn’t come back.

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Okay cool. What does “coal” mean in this instance?

Coal is nominations of really low quality, generally something that (almost) everyone will discard in the blink of an eye. There’s been a lot less of these since eMiLy has been weeding them out, but eMiLy also weeds out some things that it thinks are coal but aren’t.

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If you can get past the AI, then definitely lead with the “Miss Machin’s Field” name as the title, explain the history in the description and then add OSM and the links you submitted in the supporting text.

I see a lot of patches of grass submitted as parks when they are just patches of grass, this one seems to be more worthy of being a wayspot.

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