Wayspot Title: Mozaik Bina Deseni
Location (lat/lon): 41.03532811120479, 28.87659072535334
City: İstanbul
Country: Türkiye
Additional Information: Hello. This wayspot is related to the building decoration on the exterior of an apartment building. I consider such decorations to be unique objects and wayspots located in public space. This nomination had successfully passed the voting and was added to the game. Then it disappeared for some unknown reason. Are we making a mistake about whether this wayspot meets the criteria? If appropriate, please have this waypoint restored.
Is that just a painted stripe? I dont see how it meets criteria. Building ornamentation usually only rises to the level of being a wayspot when it is an example of an architectural style with some significance behind it. Just painting a strip of siding a different color doesn’t add any significance to the building.
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I’m just looking for the right answer. As a result, we are not looking for real works of art or a “Mona Lisa” in the game. There are much simpler and more mundane examples than this wayspot. The problem is actually this; Why does Niantic remove this wayspot from the game with no real problem when the community finds it okay? In other words, the criteria are also based on interpretations and there may be different interpretations between regions. If all the buildings in a city are blue, this is ordinary, but if all the buildings are gray and one of them is blue, the situation is different.
I think the ambassador was giving you good advice. This is just paint on a building in no particular design just simply a contrasting color, which is a fairly standard way to paint buildings. It certainly isn’t a place to exercise or socialize and why would anyone explore to see a complementary color painted on the side of the building? It really doesn’t seem to be any eligibility criteria.
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Not really. This is how the current reviewing process works to spam many comparative humble poke stops/portals in the games.
The reviewing process provides the first four questions (appropriate, safe, accuracy, permanent and distinct) to determine whether the Wayspot is eligible, and players can have their subjective opinions on the last three questions (socialize, exercise, and explore).
Take this nomination for an example.
Is it appropriate? Maybe. I usually stop here by clicking generic business because Google Map shows there is a store here. The APT address may refer to a residential rental company, but it can also be an apartment community. Since it doesn’t belong to the category of school, private residential property, adult location, sensitive location, and obstruction, If it is not a generic business (supportive information has to prove it), it can pass the first question.
Is it safe, accurate, and permanent? Judging from the Google Street View, Yes.
Then, the players vote for the final decision based on socializing, exercising, and exploring.
I would personally thumb down the last three questions in this case, but the local community or people living in the building may think the site is good for social or the decoration has its own historical value.
The nomination is randomly assigned to local voters, non-local voters, and the Teams, who can have different opinions to make a decision. The problem is the location can be nominated repeatedly until it passes even if it fails once. Even though the approval chance for similar examples might be pretty low in the current reviewing environment, the nominations can get approved eventually via a persistent nominator.
Once the nomination is approved, it is very difficult to remove the Wayspot following the “removal criteria”. I have almost a 99% rejection rate for valid in-game reports. For an “invalid” report like the Wayspot in this post, I got 100% rejection.
In this case, it was lucky to get approved, and I don’t believe players were able to report and remove it in a short time. This must be done by the Teams. If the Team makes this decision, it is not possible to revise it.
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Thanks for the appeal, @EndoplazmikR. We have taken another look but stand by our decision to retire this Wayspot.
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