I just noticed this is in Review Support Was this ever in Wayspot Appeals ? It doesn’t have the right format at the top if it was.
@seaprincesshnb would moving this there for Niantic to comment be appropriate? I think I know what they will say, but they surprise me sometimes. Are you able to remove the solution checkmark?
You’re on a forum for people to discuss the accuracy of titles, descriptions, photos, and precise coordinates of places they have likely never been and will never go. Why aren’t you hung up on this inaccurate description? 
I think it should be resubmitted as:
Title: Public Canvas
Description: Wall under the bridge where the City Arts Commission invites artists to add their creations
Supporting: The city council has approved this as a place for artists to show their abilities. Tags welcome. Here’s the link: link-to-proof
IF that is true. (Which I doubt.)
I am going to move this to the appeals section.
It hasn’t been clear that the intention was to appeal the removal.
This is the section the wayfarer team checks and responds.
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Thanks for the appeal, @GreenThunderOL We have taken another look but stand by our decision to retire this Wayspot.
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I do hate to break it to you, but any kind of art that is out there and easily reachable by a person, can be painted over. Local administration sanctification really has no judgement on whether something is or is not “art”. Whenever any local gangster decides to paint over a statue - it stops being art piece the moment someones scribbles rubbish on it?
If wayfarer team wants to break the games, let them have it. But I do believe this is against the spirit of exploration that has been the very core idea of the first game, Ingress. Art is a living, ever changing thing. One day you can walk under this bridge to see the blue monster, and the next week you’ll find a rabbit hopping on green grass. Not artsy enough? Statues can get moved. Memorial plaques can be changed. Buildings get restored -and the art pieces on them destroyed sometimes as well. Does that imply they are not an art piece? We have mechanisms in place to correct the wayspots if they changed or get removed. (I am specifically not talking about actually temporary art installations)
(non)permanence should not be a decisive criteria on whether to keep a POI, but who am I to judge… 
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Nothing in life is permanent, really, when you think of it.
Artwork that is, as you say, “sanctified” by the city implies that there was an intent for it to be accessed, viewed and kept for some time since a coordinated effort to put it up was made. That’s all this is about, not some kind of value judgement. Once this kind of artwork, or any kind of other structure that became a wayspot is removed, vandalized or otherwise destroyed, which of course can happen, the removal process that is meant for wayspots that are no longer there can be triggered provided sufficient evidence, and it will be removed. It is of course fine to disagree with the policy on vandalism, but drawing a comparison to “but anything can get removed” is a false equivalence.
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If you have a specific removal to appeal please start your own thread, otherwise there is no need to revive a month old resolved appeal to argue against it. Thank you for your understanding.
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