I’m honestly not sure. I’m on telegram. You can find me via my agent/wayfarer name.
No. I understand where you were coming from. The descriptions could be more detailed or given the history of the church building etc. Definitely hadn’t come across something this mass produced before. 
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If I find a restaurant that has been selected as a Wayspot, I don’t want its text to say: “Restaurant. We offer the best food at the fairest prices…” etc. I don’t want to be sold the proprietor’s bill of goods.
I would be unhappy if someone was going around the area and changing all the restaurants’ titles and descriptions in this manner.
I want the voices to be those of members of the community. I hope that each nomination will have a bit of thought about what makes the venue distinct, unique or special - even if just by calling out the name of the community or street.
To me, these edits are removing the special stuff and making everything generic, while seeming to speak with an official voice.
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I agree with you. Whenever I plan on submitting a locally owned business, I do some research on it first. Before I submitted a local comic book shop, I found out when it opened (over 40 years), what products they sell (international snacks are a favorite), and the events they have. I made sure to include all of that in the description.
The titles/descriptions for me are so generic, and I wish that there would be some type of identification included, like the town/city/neighborhood it’s in, the street it can be found on, or even the ward(s) that worship there, or if it is a stake center (a stake is a group of wards, and one of the meetinghouses in the group is chosen as the stake center). Even the church’s website has a locator to find these locations, and they have names pertaining to the wards and stakes at said locations.
Most of the current titles seem to note where the church is located, but use the “LDS” verbage, which does not allign with the church’s style guide. At the same time, I don’t see anything in the style guide, or even their building name info, that you can’t include some kind of church identification.
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They’re baaaack! And everywhere!
My guess is that they hired a bot to scrape for LDS churches and automatically send edits. It probably runs every few weeks, so anything rejected is resubmitted.
This could be a small good thing about Ingress splitting from Wayfarer - we won’t have to review these edits anymore.
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I’d select the non copy/paste option that someone did with hundreds of wayspots. Living in Utah I’m seeing these on every other review. I’d like to have something a little more distinct to be able to tell the spots apart.
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Bold of you to assume that they won’t want to edit the spatial database. 
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Can Joe Wayfarer edit the global Spatial database? Pogo players need to visit the physical site to submit an edit.
I thought the current theory was that ingress players could submit edits from kilometers away and LDS-affiliated players were using this loophole.
I thought the theory was that LDS edits were being done through the sunsetted Wayfarer app.
Im just amazed they havent finished the project yet! Its been a long job for them!
I never got to use that app, but believed Niantic told us any submissions through it would not go live.
If editing that way worked nothing would stop its use, but we’re told it is dead, now, and the edits are continuing to appear.
IDK
Lol i think a lot of folks keep changing them back.
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i didn’t use the app either so going on hearsay.
Ingress players can edit any portal from anywhere. If it shows up in comms, they can edit. If they have a key, they can edit. If they can see the portal while clicking on another portal in either comms or keys, they can edit.
Not anymore they can’t
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Ingress could edit like 25k away, with link, Comm, or key. Not anywhere.