Restoration Request : Public Footpath leading to Little Wood Bank

Wayspot Appeals
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  • Wayspot Title:Public Footpath leading to Little Wood Bank
  • Location (lat/lon): 53.324252, -1.502543
  • City: Sheffield
  • Country: UK
  • Additional Information (if any): Submitted 2024-05-19, accepted by “our team” 2024-05-20; I suspect this was removed during cleansing of eMiLy approvals. Footpath markers are eligible wayspots, /especially/ when not on roads. This is leading off from a rough track, which is marked on OS maps as a byway but is now forbidden to vehicular traffic (as per streetview images to the north and south). A photosphere confirms the location.and the path is shown on google maps.
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For the benefit of other wayspotters (?), the description is as follows:

“Leading from the top section of Beauchief Drive, this path leads into Little Wood Bank, a small area of woodland which survived the creation of the golf course to the North and the driving range to the South. Little Wood Bank is a relatively new woodland compared to the ancient woodlands just to the North. The path soon divides, giving options to walk through to Twentywell Lane, head up to the trig point and recreation ground, or scout for lost golf balls behind the high fence of the driving range.”

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(I don’t think the incorrect capitalisation of “North” is enough to invalidate this and I can’t correct this if it isn’t in the game.)

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Hi
You referred to “cleansing of Emily approvals”
On what basis do you say this?
Why wouldn’t it be that the simplest reason of someone reporting for removal applies?

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Fair question. There are no Ingress-based removal tactics in this area and Pokemon Go doesn’t have team-based removals. I’ve only noticed one wayspot get removed in the past few years, for a closed pub.

There’s nothing about the wayspot to indicate it meets any criteria for removal and very few players will even have noticed it. I had at least half a dozen wayspots removed after approval, some of which were resubmitted independently by other players (and approved into both games) and two of which were recently reinstated after appeals.

All removed wayspots were approved by eMiLy (99% confidence) and Niantic had to withdraw eMiLy approvals as things were getting through that shouldn’t. Cleansing those approvals makes sense.

The timing of the removals, the similarity in the approvals (all by eMiLy), the lack of other wayspots being removed and the lack of player-based removal requests all point towards what I said, but I wouldn’t be able to bet my house on it.

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Thanks for the appeal, @salixsorbus. We gave this a second look and decided to restore the Wayspot in question.

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