Hi community The rejection reasons topic left some questions so that we want to have a deeper look at the results our observations. @cyndiepooh was so nice to provide the screenshots in the discussion sub-topic . Below you can find the list of all community provided rejection reasons (numbered) an…

#18 is an ML/staff rejection reason, I believe. This post about a rejected natural feature mentions that it was rejected by ML, later rejected by the appeals team for being a natural feature. [image] According to appeal staff, natural features are rejection criteria again General …

But with other reasons than #8? I mean ML rejections.

They said it was an ML rejection, but it could have been staff. Most of the time, when someone has something rejected and they ask for help, we make sure to ask about what the email said. With anything rejected by “our team,” they have gotten to be varied, so it seems that ML/staff are using other…

[image] Discussion about new rejection reasons General Discussion [Screenshot_20250519-234903_Gallery] [Screenshot_20250519-234856_Gallery] Here u go. Honestly i am baffled This was reported as a “Natural features” rejection by the community.

Oh could it possibly be a “comment” out of the free text field?

brilliant! i would never have thought of that!

[image] AliceWonder1511: I’ve some thoughts after writing this down … and I’ll start with something easy :grin: If I counted correct we’ve 31 ways of rejecting (ML incl., Staff review excl.). We could provide 26 community examples of received rejection reasons (1 only seen in french). If I…

[image] Me rechazaron una propuesta porque supuestamente estoy siendo grosero o ridiculizando a una persona o comunidad Nomination Support Título: Mural Mariposa y Flores Descripción: Mural creado por la comunidad para simbolizar la belleza de las flores y mariposas Razó…

Next thoughts are about abuse. These 6 ways of rejection could count as abuse: Accuracy → Bad photo → Third party photo Accuracy → Bad photo → Watermark Accuracy → Abuse → Fake nomination Accuracy → Abuse → Explicit content Accuracy → Abuse → Influencing reviewer Accuracy → Abuse → Other abuse re…

Oh funny that we talk about the same things at same time. My problem with this example is that the origin is not in english. The other example in french we’ve also never seen again.

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This was reported as a “Natural features” rejection by the community.

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