What is the best way to go about renaming art and sculptures that when accepted as wayspots were given made up or generic names. I have tried title edits for a variety of sculptures after doing research and finding the names the artists titled them, but when i make the edits they don’t get accepted. Any help or tips would be super appreciated.
Ive tried title alone and title with artist name. 9/10 times it will get rejected. Descriptions i havent had trouble with. Its mainly the titles.
Here are some screenshots of ones that i have tried getting corrected. I have a few others i havent submitted cause it usually doesnt work.
Put urself in reviewer point of view. You may have extensive research so u know whats correct name of the sculpture but reviewer dont know. And reviewer tend to do quick choose on edit with whatever name which “feels” better. I think whatever name you put should be something that goggleable/ verifyable by reviewer otherwise abstract statue or tetris might feel better in reviewer eyes. People sometimes worry if u put player’s name in wayspot title, which is considered incorrect
I feel like this is the problem (if it were community rejections). Information is best spoonfed when making a whole wayspot nomination.
In edits without an input for additional info, the text edit is at the mercy of the reviewer who should verify but almost never do. It took me one reverse image search to verify the first example to be accurate.
There was a beautiful time there when we could appeal rejected edits to help chat. That was great. I have a similar rejected title edit I am waiting on an appeal to become available for so I can give them the link to prove the name is correct.
That first one is the artist name, not a player. But when it was by itself it got auto rejected. Most are easily googleable. I do get that that though, i just feel like between community review and the bot rejections its impossible to get changed.
Yeah the edits without additional input is so difficult. Which is why i tried including the artist name for that first one but that still didnt work. I also did them at the same time as a despription so that when reviewing they would both be there with more info, but the descriptions often got approved fast or before the titles did. Do i bother putting in the edits over and over again? Or just give up and leave them as is. Thats the real question.
I tried 3 times to get a sculpture named correctly, as it wasn’t what was on the official website for the piece, or the artist’s website. After the 3rd rejection, most by ML or staff, I had to provide the links to prove the correct title via appeal.
Yeah, not easy to change without some context being provided, so help chat may be a better way to go since you have so many, and we only get 2 appeals every 20 days.
I appealed via Contribution Management, as I had both of my appeals at the time, so I could provide the links there.
Help chat may be better, since you have more than 2 Wayspots to deal with. Help chat is on the Wayfarer website, in the bottom right. If you don’t see it, click on Help, and it should show up. You will want to choose Report Wayfarer Abuse, then Title/Description/Supporting Info.
Since help chat may only allow one Wayspot at a time, you can also use the report abuse form on the help website. While this says it’s for abuse, it also has a dropdown open for Title/Description/Supporting Info, and you may be able to provide a more detailed report for all of the Wayspots in question as well.
I see that you have marked solution already, but I thought I would put how I have had success with it.
This Traffic Box has public art on it and whomever originally submitted it used their own title and description on it. Many times these titles are made up and no credit is given to the artist which is one of my pet peeves to give the artist credit. When I come across these I have had good success with the following…
I can only show the results but I will edit the title to the correct title like I. The picture above, then in the description edit I put the title again in quotes and then the description.
This has worked probably 70% of the time and then if I have to appeal I’ve ether taken a picture of the artist plaque or a screenshot of the artists website to use in the appeal. I think the original title was Red Trolly and the original description was Hop on the red trolly. I may be mistaken on that.
i have done that, but sometime one finishes before the other which doesnt help. I was able to use the help chat 1 time, but now it just says you can appeal edits in content managment or make edits in games. Both which have a not great success rate.
