Hello! This has been my first nomination and I thought it was very clearly a good candidate but it got rejected in under 10 minutes flat??? It is an art installation at a local marina, part of a mural series all around the surrounding communities. It’s on a large, easily accessible billboard-type wall just in the grass next to the patio of the marina where there are lots of tables/chairs for the ice cream they sell and boaters to relax while getting gas. I posted a very clear photo for the stop and one that included the mural and the patio for the more context one. It’s not visible from Google maps since the marina is at the end of the street (due to being a marina with need for a boat ramp/access to water, etc.) so I’m not sure if maybe it was rejected because you can’t see it if you look it up on maps? Also it happened so quickly I was confused, I made another nominations days ago that hasn’t had a decision made yet. Any advice? Address is 13 N Rd, Baysville, ON P0B 1A0 if anyone needs. I will attach pictures I used- is it maybe because the second image doesn’t show the full mural?? TIA
Hi, welcome to the forum! To advise correctly on appeal, resubmission etc, we would need your full nomination, not just the pair of photos. If this is your supporting photo, it indeed doesn’t help verify location very well, but a nomination needs to be evaluated in its entirety, and here we can’t see what other location context there was, for example.
That makes sense, and I actually just noticed the part of the rejection that talks about the photo being the issue- before I retake the picture and appeal though I’d like to make sure it’s the patio one and not the actual mural photo that is the issue. Here’s the nomination for further assistance!
We cant see from that link. You need to provide screenshot of your nomination (photo, surrounding photo, location, supporting info)
Ah, sorry! I thought maybe you would be able to see from the link. Here’s screenshots of the nomination- sorry, I’m so new to this! 
Is it rejected by “team” or “community” ?
you need to look from rejection email
Anyway looking into street view there are some issue.
- Street view is 10years old
- Your surrounding photo need to include mural and any identifiable landmark in streetview/satelite
- You may need to take new photo because it seems its rejected because bad photo
Okay, thank you for sharing. This looks like a good nomination. No need to apologize for being new - you are clearly getting the hang of it already 
You did get an incorrect rejection there (this is why we needed to see the complete nomination). Had you had it on Hold or on Upload Later prior to it being rejected? If not, we have previously (rarely) seen nominations get quickly (quicker than the usual ML rejection) rejected based on some filter for the photo, that could be what you are experiencing. Also, just a reminder here that all photos have to be your own (just want to cover all bases & don’t want to assume everyone knows everything).
Your options to move forward:
- Appeal the rejection. Note that you do run the risk of the appeal reviewer struggling to confirm location or permanence. Therefore, if you do appeal, add supporting links to the art project and its map (a quick search told me it is very well documented, and that there is a map with locations of the artworks for those who want to visit them all - this is the ultimate proof that you need and exactly the kind of thing you should include going forward)
- Resubmit. Is the artwork next to this building shown below? If so I would suggest taking a new supporting photo that both includes the artworks and allows the reviewer looking at Street View to match it to the building. In your case this is probably best done by taking a few steps back and taking a landscape photo, possibly with wide angle if your phone supports that. For your supporting text, refer to what was suggested in point 1 and take out mentions of stops - it’s not explicitly disallowed in the supporting info but it’s unnecessary. And I would just focus the supporting a little. You are submitting the artwork, not the business - then focus on proving its location and permanence. The business can be mentioned in order to provide evidence that this has safe public access, but that’s about it. You can talk about the ice cream if/when you decide to submit the business itself.
- In a resubmission, I would maybe try cropping or framing the main photo differently. This would not be part of standard advice, and is only here because you appear to have experienced this fast rejection so I worry that resubmitting with the exact same main photo will yield the same result. Stressing again that generally it shouldn’t happen.
This is just feedback on “best practices” - not saying at all you have to do all of this in order for your nomination to even be acceptable, especially since what you have experienced seems to be a photo-related glitch anyway. For me as a reviewer what you submitted seems to be quite acceptable already, but I had to do independent research in order to confirm. Since this may have to be a resub, these suggestions might help to make it as bulletproof as possible also on other points.
Hope this helps - good luck.
Hey,
Welcome to Wayfarer and the Community Forum.
I see that your nomination was not processed successfully and failed to upload to our servers. I recommend that you resubmit the nomination again.
Thanks,
Oh, ty Aaron! I haven’t seen this in a while. I think this can happen when you don’t have good signal for the upload, or when there is actually something corrupt with the photo image. I am sure some others will be able to help you with technical stuff if you get a similar very quick rejection on resubmit.
@hxymxnx Things that may help if this is a bandwidth problem.
Use the “upload later” feature and upload with good wifi. Make sure to do the actual upload soon after creating it, since when waiting 24 hours or more, eMiLy might grab the nomination before you are ready.
Once it has been uploaded and you have received the confirmation email, put the submission on hold. You can then check that everything is OK (especially the images), then edit the text if needed before releasing for review.