Title: Miller Farms Portal
Description: Miller Farms Portal
Miller Farms is a neighborhood that started construction in 2005, with the first home being built around 2006. This signage marks the entrance of the safe and friendly neighborhood.
Category: Place Name Sign, Sign
Supporting Statement: A great place to adventure the neighborhood and socialize with others. Accesible through road, sign has shrubs and bushes on it for a cute little garden. Great place to reach when on a walk.
The rejection reasoning wasn’t really clear and I want to know why it was and/or some tips to make it better. It has to be something, there’s other pokéstops near me that are portals/entrance signs for neighborhoods.
I assume this was rejected by the “automated process”? Neighborhood signs typically do not meet any eligibility criteria. You can learn more about the criteria at Wayspot Criteria — Wayfarer Help Center
I know there are a lot of these in game. We have asked for a clarification on them, but Niantic has not given us one. How would you say this particular sign meets any of the eligibility criteria of a great place for exercise, exploration, or being social?
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Your supporting information just includes keywords without explaining how it meets those keywords.
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I forgot to ask, why did you use the word “Portal?” That sounds like an Ingress reference.
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You beat me to this question as I just wondered the same thing.
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Question: who was Milton, and what did his family’s farm cultivate?
I’ve submitted a neighborhood sign before that was an XYZ Farm, and in doing a little research I found that the developers bought the land after the death of a man who’d farmed for 90+ years on that plot of land. I was able to cite the history of the area and even the fact that the barn was still standing (albeit on private property, so ineligible to be nominated itself), in order to make a case for its historical value.
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There’s other entrance sign pokéstops near me and most of them say portal so I just assumed that’s what to put. I’m new to submitting waypoints 
It’s quite complicated, the name has nothing to do with the farm it says it is (Miller farm was a farm a few miles down and the developers were also not related to him.) The developers also went bankrupt a few years ago and stopped building homes there since the plot was full. The history isn’t much, I wrote all I could find (project started around 2005, first home built about 2006, built homes until 2021)
It’s a point of interest in the neighborhood, many people walk by it and can be seen socializing around it often. It’s mainly accessible by walking promoting physical activity.
People walking by it does not mean it encourages exercise. How do people socialize around it? Are there benches or tables I don’t see in the photo? What about the sign intrinsically encourages either?
You do not need to answer my questions. I am just trying to help walk you through the eligibility criteria.
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As previously mentioned, there are many neighborhood signs in-game, but this doesn’t mean they may meet criteria. There are a good deal of Wayspots on the map that currently do not meet criteria, but do not meet removal criteria, so there’s nothing that can be done to remove them. Criteria also changes from time to time, so what may have been acceptable at one time may no longer be.
Many here don’t see neighborhood signs like these to be eligible, as they are usually put up by the developer to be advertisements, or don’t have anything unique about them. That doesn’t mean all are ineligible, as if they have something unique included, such as a water fountain or artwork, then they may be eligible.
I do see that Cyndie provided the link to the Wayspot criteria, so it’s highly recommended to check that out. The Criteria Clarification Collection is another great place, as it covers many commonly discussed POIs. The threads below also may be helpful:
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I would not use the word “Portal” unless the nomination specifically says it is a portal. That is an Ingress game term. Ingress is no longer part of Wayfarer, but people (or the machine learning model 
) may see that as irrelevant and reject.
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Eligible does not equal acceptable:
Eligibility Criteria
A note on eligibility: if a Wayspot nomination meets one of the below criteria, that’s great! But remember that eligibility alone isn’t sufficient to turn a nomination into an accepted Wayspot.
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Yes
I see you have a gazebo on the lake which is a Wayspot. Is there anything else in that common area that you could submit that I can’t see on the map?
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I clarified since you left off this piece. I did not say you were wrong 
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Just because people walk by it doesn’t make it a great place to exercise as they are not getting the exercise from the sign, nor does it mean it’s a great place to socialize if it’s a pretty generic neighborhood sign, which I see this one as being. The plants are also pretty generic, and do not constitute being a garden, just generic landscaping. I just don’t see anything unique about this sign, and I don’t see it being a great place to be social/exercise/explore.
You may just have to move on and find other things to submit.
Most of us here love to help new submitters be successful. @DTrain2002 posted links to some really good topics for new submitters to read. I would like to welcome you to the forum, and hope you find it a valuable resource going forward!