Deleting your game accounts can reset your Wayfarer progress to zero. Unfortunately, we cannot reinstate your stats. Having said that, I have added an Upgrade to your account as a goodwill gesture.
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I appreciate that, thanks for looking out for me. 
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i double checked, and the wording on how to delete your ingress account does say the wayfarer data, too. if it said that before, i am sorry you missed that bit. if they have just added that, you have helped others by asking here.
Thatâs interesting. I checked and PokĂ©mon GO lists the same as well.
That doesnât mention this issue occurring at all, it basically says all your data will be fine. It actually reassures you that nothing with happen. Also I was never directed to this link, because the app automatically sent me to support.
âIf you request the deletion for your game account linked to Niantic Wayfarer, your deletion request will include data submitted to the Wayfarer program via this game account. If you contribute to Wayfarer via another Niantic game, these contributions will be unaffectedâ
âData submittedâ is not referring to potentially 1000s of reviews made on the wayfarer website. It is literally talking about something completely different.
I think the reality is, the only way you could know about this issue, is if it happens to you. Result based analysis isnât going to work here. You would have no reason to google this issue if you donât know it exists, and doesnât exist anywhere in fine print. And all the results of your search will be people on this forum who it has happened to.
Um what else would the Data submitted be? How would you recommend they reword this? I am sure they donât want this happening to anyone else if it can be helped.
Oh! I see it now. It should say Niantic account not game account, right? I think of each Niantic account as a game account.
I guess nomination reviews count as âdata submittedâ? and âvia this game accountâ means the email you use to log into all your other games. Otherwise I donât see how this makes you aware that you will potentially reset your account.
Data submitted is nominations. You make contributions to wayfarer from your game account, I.E. submitting a waypoint nomination through Pokemon go. So itâs saying that your nominations made from the game account you are deleting will also be deleted.
I do think the rewording you mention would help.
Niantic is extremely slow to implement QOL changes Iâm really not surprised.
Yes, this has been known for maybe 8 years. If you delete any Niantic account, your Wayfarer is deleted as well. When Harry Potterâs end was announced, some people deleted their accounts - and lost Wayfarer even tho HPWU never had Wayfarer access.
My guess is that the process for a user deletion ends up in the same code as the process for when someoneâs account is revoked for abuse. IOW same as if you got kicked off Ingress for making threats in Comms or spoofing. Itâs reasonable for Niantic to revoke abusersâ Wayfarer. And I guess deletions by the user are rare enough that itâs not worth debugging?
Itâs been happening so long, and people have complained so much - I think we have to conclude that itâs on purpose.
Nianitc has gotten much better with documentation in the past couple years - although not on this topic. Maybe theyâll finally make it clearer?
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