There have been several times that I have proposed pokestops and they have all rejected me without any justification and instantly.
I’m trying to improve my community and have more possibilities to play.2024-07-11T06:00:00Z
Welcome and good day!
It is probable that the ML (Machine Learning) reviewed these, check the rejection email for the words “our team” to verify. If you need help with specific nominations, please add the full details in this thread so fellow Wayfarers can advice more precisely.
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Please take your own photos, first and foremost. Third-party photos are valid rejections. Will leave the location judgement to others more familiar with this cityscape.
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Hi
I can sadly not help on this but I have a question.
I saw on this rejection email the following adress line:
Is that ok in 2024? Is the copyright of niantic ending last year?
Sorry 
I am having the same issue. A large chunk of my portals have not been approved. Some of them get through. I do suspect it might be the trolls in my area on Ingress that are doing this. And the ones that do manage to sneak through are because the Pokemon Community is supportive. But my neighborhood signs that I put through should have gone through. They are in safe locations and their areas that you can explore and walk through freely. I know because I walk my dog through a lot of these areas myself. Sometimes I have to submit portals several times before they get approved. As for some of yours some of them look temporary or like something that can be removed. Although the mural one in your picture should have been approved unless it was already there as a portal/poke stop. Duplicates are automatic rejections in my book. Unless there is two of the same. In that case I always number them. However I would like to know if there’s a way to get things proved or if maybe Niantic could look at the people that I have blocked on my Ingress profile and not allow them to review my portals
These are not typically seen as a great place to socialise, exercise or explore, and so most of the time it is correct for them to be rejected.
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I hope this is just a missed footer update. Tagging @NianticAaron for clarity.
we all know emails take 2+ years to update so this is expected. maybe in 2026 it will have the correct end year again
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However I would like to know if there’s a way to get things proved or if maybe Niantic could look at the people that I have blocked on my Ingress profile and not allow them to review my portals
reviewers can’t tell who nominated something, and nominations require many reviews so even if a small number of locals can guess based on the location it shouldn’t be a deciding factor unless there’s a larger scale cheating/collusion effort going on. additionally the wayfarer system is mostly unaware of anything from any game so there’s no chance such a thing would ever be implemented
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When we do play in this area we do cross the crosswalk and walk in circles for Pikmin around the crosswalk passing the sign back to the other side of the street and then around again till the flower is planted at least on pikmin. On Ingress I’ll just stand right there by the sign after crossing the street and accessing the sign Through The Pedestrian access. If there was a way to send a video I would send a video of The Pedestrian access maybe in the daytime I can submit a photo of The Pedestrian access to the sign to the other side of the street. But me and my kids walk in circles in this area to the community sign and community garden all the time. It has worked out wonderfully on Pikmin I’ll be sad to see it go away as a flower on that game personally
Hi,
If you would like to start another topic in here about your portals then that would be great. You can post the whole nomination so we can see it and advise.
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I think @hankwolfman 's original point is not about safe pedestrian access but about how the object would not inherently meet eligibility criteria. A longer discussion about these can be found in another thread, this reply is IMO probably the best summation of how neighborhood signs can be merited as being eligible or not.
I understand that game objects will be used when available. The reasoning for eligibility is how the object would fit for socialization, exercise, and exploration in real life excluding game interactions.