Additional Information (if any): I would like to ask why you think my submission was not accepted. It is a marble plaque with the name of a street (street signs are usually made of metal and mounted on poles). Moreover, I am not even allowed to submit an appeal.
Unfortunately I cannot read Italian, but if it translates to “Our team,’ then it was the machine learning filter that rejected your nomination. Otherwise you can check the contributions tab part of Wayfarer and the reason(s) the reviewers picked will be located there.
Maybe you could tell us more about your nomination? I see a plague that identifies a location on the wall. Can you explain more about how the plague is a great place to explore, exercise, or be social?
This wall does not appear to have safe pedestrian access as it is on a street. Which may be a reason for this being rejected.
I have moved your question to nomination support as I think we will be able to help with why this was rejected.
Sorry your first time here was because of a rejection, but please feel free to ask questions as folks around here are really good at suggesting improvements.
Unfortunately, I am not told the exact reason why my wayspot was rejected. I am only given a list of possible reasons and invited to read the guidelines. However, the plaque can be reached via the sidewalk visible from the other side (as seen on Google Maps). The street is significant because it is located near the Via Appia Antica, an ancient and historic road that connects Rome to Puglia. Near this plaque, in the center of a roundabout, there are Roman stones that I would like to nominate as a wayspot.
Safe pedestrian access requires you to be able to physically walk up to and stand at the object. In this case, you’d be stood on the road if you did that.
Even so though, a street name sign is generic infrastructure that nearly always won’t meet the criteria of being a great place to socialise, exercise or explore.
Also, noting the stones in the middle of the roundabout, if there’s no marked crossing point to the centre of the roundabout, these would also be ineligible for safe pedestrian access.
These are typical narrow Italian streets. The sidewalk is present, but it doesn’t lead directly in front of the objects in question; however, it does allow you to get fairly close. In my experience, several monuments located inside roundabouts or elevated areas that aren’t directly accessible on foot are accepted as Wayspots without any issues. Moreover, the plaque is located on a street, but the street in question is a dead-end and therefore doesn’t have much vehicle traffic. It’s essentially like a large parking area.
The reason for rejection will be on your contribution underneath where it says “Not Accepted” on your contributions page. https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/nominations
If you don’t see a reason, log out and back in again.
If the rejection was by the “automated process” then the ML (machine learning) model could not detect anything that met criteria in your nomination.
You get two appeals, each on a 15 day timer before you can use them again. If you don’t see the appeal button, you don’t have one to use.
I would not appeal or resubmit this for the reasons @hankwolfman has mentioned.
They obviously don’t tell us exactly how it works, but the ML model seems to review all nominations around 20-24 hours after submitting. If it is going to reject them, that is about when it happens, and is why we recommend not using an upgrade for at least a day or two, just in case it gets rejected or pulled into in house review, where an upgrade doesn’t do anything.
The ML model cannot accept nominations. After this check, a nomination can go into either community review or in house human review. There doesn’t have to be a flag for it to go into human review. They have stated that they manually review some. If it goes into in house review, they can either decide it, or can release it back to community review. And if a nomination stays in community review too long, the in house team can pull and decide it.
This could be a translation issue, but this is not a plaque. It is a sign for a street name, which is standard infrastructure. Attempting to claim it is a plaque risks getting flagged for abuse.
Look, I really don’t think so. In Italy, for decades now, road signs have had a completely different design. This is an old-style plaque, which you definitely don’t find on every street.
There are old-style road name signs in the UK as well. They are still just standard infrastructure. They are not plaques. You might attempt to describe them as old and unique, but that only works if they are indeed unique. They still wouldn’t be plaques even then.
