I am curious why it is marked as rejected because it resides on private property. Photo shows that the only one way to visit that place are from outside. That place is handmade, and it is provided to our community, small village where we have like 1 PokeStop every 1 km. I am curious that most of private caffe spots are accepted but place like that not.
That is first time when I am asking here for advice.
From definition PokeStop should be unique, safe, and open for others (public) that PokeStop meet all requirements. Please do not use arguing that it is sitting on private property, that is small village most of beautifull places are handmade here by our community. That is not city where government is paying for everything…
I am new on wayfarer, and what I can observe is huge items accepted or nominated like wall art but it is just vandalism made by paint spray. Could you put some additional efforts for small village to make them playable? I do not know even if there is someone from wayfarer support?
Just additionally point. Every church is not sitting on government ground in Poland I do not know how it is in other countries. So you should remove all church from maps.
People do not live at churches, so that is not SFPRP (single family private residential property). The Criteria Clarification Collection has a lot of good explanations, including this one:
It is same situation like someone is accepting “thing” that is in front of his open garden. I recently check that forum and there was like postbox created as PokeBall, and it was accepted…
And yes there live many families, like in village is, but that single item is available only from outside. Even picture shows that, doors from sidewalk side. It is not possible to access it from that family property
Mistakes do happen. If the Pokeball postbox is on single family private residential property, it should be reported for removal.
The only “Private Property” that is not allowed is SFPRP - single family private residential property. If this Pokeball postbox is in the common area for apartments or a neighborhood, then it could be eligible. Postboxes normally are not, though.
Read carefully what you posted and next read what O argue.
Objects in or upon apartment blocks, gated communities, or their shared spaces may be eligible assuming they otherwise meet criteria and are intended to be accessed by a community, even if not everyone. Communal spaces have the potential to be eli…
I seem to only be making you more frustrated, so I am going to leave this for someone more familiar with the area to advise you on next steps. A shrine that is NOT on SFPRP would be eligible and you can try submitting again, but I am not sure how to convince that is not SFPRP since that was the original rejection reason, too. If someone has set up this shrine on their property, it is not eligible, even if you can touch it from the sidewalk. I am not familiar with these in my part of the world.
Please read the Criteria Clarification Collection as it may give you some ideas of things you can submit. I wish you success in adding Wayspots.
No of course you are not making me more frustrated.
I played pogo starting 2016, and when I back on 2024 there was no new pokestops on my village, but I would like to create something for others players and also for my kids.
I just arguing that this place should be accepted because it meets all requirements. To be more precise, even that family from inside needs to go outside on sidewalk to be able pray, otherwise they can not see anything. When I was kid that place was already there, that item was restaurant and it is keep clean by that family. I really do not get the way as wall painting vandalism with spray paint is accepted everytime, and such thing is not.
This is not a good Wayspot either, and Niantic is actively removing these whenever they come across them.
The offer still stands to have a look around to see if we can suggest things you might submit. If you are only trying to submit nominations that are eligible to become Pokestops, you will want to learn about S2 cells. The prompt indicates you are submitting a pokestop, but you are actually submitting a Wayspot for inclusion in Niantic’s Lightship database. A good article about how Pokemon Go uses S2 cells is here: https://pokemongohub.net/post/article/comprehensive-guide-s2-cells-pokemon-go/
Hello @Szpansky! Maybe you would like to share the coords of your nomination so people can check what you are talking about and give you better feedback if needed.
@Szpansky now I’m just going to add a couple of things here as an observer reading your post and not as a wayfarer reviewer (I do not have access to the submissions to see what you do in your account)
The image you posted with the Christmas looking decoration on the first image DOES look like a “Door” to a *private residential property" which is found on many properties here in the UK we call these “Single Glazed Entrance Doors” for Residential Properties so that is the first thought that comes to mind for people that would see it.
while you state it is a shine of such used for praying this is not evident looking through the blurry image that your presented and circled even when zoomed in.
unless there’s a legal reason why you can’t open the door from the outside and take a photo of a the table and statue inside as well as the door for your supporting information cropped photos of what just looks like “an entrance door to a private residence” would be marked as rejected.
most of the people on this forum are all community members and players and we have a better understanding internationally of objects and things and have become part of the furniture here that build up this community and they do come across like they are robots repeating the same thing over and over again,but they forget that a new user doesn’t know what all these acronyms means when they throw “SFPRP” at a new user it can be daunting as it was when I started researching the whole system back in 2019,while I have only recently joined wayfarer myself I mostly have a better idea from both playing “Ingress” over “Pokémon Go” on what to look out for but I have played a few different niantic games.
It does however look ineligible in its current form so as it stands the rejection is “correct” and even if It came my way I hate to say it but I would reject this as well…you have also mentions on a couple of posts “the family that live there look after and maintain it” and “they have to go outside to the door to pray” so the words are the problem her also.
I know exactly how you feel on the 1 Pokestop per 1km distance while I live in a built up area all the main waypoints are clumped together in one spot so everyone has to go to the same place to play and everyone knows each other even the angry players…I walked past a basketball court last night and because all the teens were out & up to no good I heard one of them shout in my general direction “look at that old man,he’s playing Pokémon Go” and I’m far from being an old man and I wasn’t playing Pokémon Go but it’s one of the main points we have to go past to enter “showcases” so we open ourselves up to stuff like that but it’s a small price to pay until Niantic decide to listen a bit more on placement of highly playable targets.
But definitely go through the Criteria Clarification Collection and verse yourself a bit more thoroughly on what can and can’t be accepted and we can all help each other to improve these areas.
Many would agree that that wayspot in particular should never have been accepted. It was in fact rejected, but the appeal team is extremely inconsistent when applying its own rules, so it is not uncommon that things that should not be accepted are.
That aspect of the system is frustrating, but using existing way spots as guidance for your own nominations is not a good idea. The database is full of things that should never have been accepted.
Remember, the “requirements” are that the spot needs to be a great place where people gather socially (a place intended for socializing, not just a spot where it could happen), or a great place to exercise, or a great place to explore (like a nature trail, a museum). Niantic’s goal (simplified] is to get people out in their communities to socialize and explore.
Our job as nominators is to find things to help make that happen and when we nominate something, to explain clearly to reviewers how our nomination meets one of the three eligibility criteria.
You’ll go crazy comparing your nominations to others you see in the database. Rather focus on the eligibility criteria and make sure it doesn’t meet any of the exclusion criteria (schools for children, SFPRP, adult-only, sensitive locations, etc.).
