Are you saying that you would have accepted this specific mural and not rejected it for its location in a sensitive area? Trying to be sure I am not misunderstanding your point.
Iām making the distinction between the thing meeting criteria and the location being eligible. Iām seeing some comments intertwining the criteria and the location. The exam room wasnāt nominated. So the exam room doesnāt have to be a great place to explore. Something inside the exam room was nominated. That thing (mural) is what needs to meet the criteria of a great place to explore.
The location (exam room) of the thing (mural) can be considered ineligible due to people thinking it is a sensitive location.
I canāt make a judgment call on this one without seeing the whole nomination. (For example, if the nomination said the mural calms the animals, Iād probably reject because i donāt believe animals look at 2D art. So that would just be the nominator saying random made-up junk to get a POI. I tend not to reward people who write falsehoods to make their POIs sound more important than they are.)
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The mural would be the POI, but it cannot be removed from its location. Again, I could have a priceless work of art in my tiny little office space that only I can access. Would that be eligible?
You cannot disentangle the location of a POI with the POI. If you do, then all the criteria on location go out the window!
A mural is not a place, therefore it cannot be a great place to explore. A mural is a thing that exists in a place. Therefore, the place where that mural exist must be a great place to explore, and the mural is the reason for that.
People donāt always express themselves perfectly, but the artwork may have been chosen to calm the human being who accompanies their pet, in furtherance of the original goal of doing what is possible to keep the animal calm.
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If the art in your office is reasonably unique/distinctive ā and your office is not in a private residence or farm ā it would seem that you could nominate it.
Youād have to do something to help prove that it existed and was installed at the indicated location, and that it didnāt run afoul of any of the rejection criteria.
If you and your personal assistant are the only ones with access, there could be trouble with abusive location caveat. However, Niantic has bent over backwards to not spell out how they would possibly determine the difference between normal intentional strategic advantage vs. the abusive variety.
Most of the clarifications are on the old forums and I donāt have time to find them.
But I will repeat, it has been said in many of the new clarifications, a POI doesnāt need to be accessible to the entire public just that some people need to have access. You can see these inferences in Military Bases where it says area eligible to residents (still inside locked base) It is also mentioned PRP one that āGated Communitiesā if they are intended to be accessed by a community even if not everyone. Toss in POIs in factories, locked businesses, and paid locations as well. And itās definitely a lot of evidence that the POI doesnāt have to be accessable 24-7 to everyone. The fact that customers, and workers have access means the painting is accessible by Niantic Standards.
This is one of the most misused thoughts on wayfarer. The fact that not everyone has access all the time, doesnāt make something ineligible.
I havent seen anything in my community that would remotely resemble this. And places would be able to request removal if they have a bad community. But it isnāt a reason to reject something just because some communities somewhere are silly.
Ummm this thread isnāt about a hospital. Itās about a veternarian exam room and whether that is a sensitive location. And even hospitals donāt make no, unless it interferes with emergency services.
PS: While not exclusive it is worth pointing out that Doctorās Offices and Hospitals are not mentioned in the āSensitive Placeā Criteria. Let alone animal versions.
I also find it fairly interesting to point out that we are discussing views on an animal exam room and yet things like Churches are auto-accepts. Many churches would consider themselves āSensitive Locationā and not appropriate location for a mobile game. Goes to show you how wildly wide and differed views are.
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At least in Japan, where non-religious assembly facilities are well developed, it has a different meaning, but in other countries, churches and the like have the meaning of assembly facilities.
But veterinary hospitals are different.
Well, you can take an infinitely broad interpretation and approve everything as qualified, as you do.
But it all comes back to you as fate.
Consider the real world we live in.
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Fate is a mental construct.
The description and supporting info both said the art helps calm both humans and petsā¦
Itās a small detail, but the fact that they wrote that it ācalms petsā would not sit well with me. Thereās no way anyone officially associated with this mural told them that pets look at this mural and are calmed. Yes, it is possible that it calms the humans and that calms the animals. But what is quoted sounds like someone just making stuff up about something they want for a pokestop. I donāt like rewarding people for exaggerating or flat out lying.
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I did find info from the artist, and thereās no note that they were created to help calm people or animals. Sheās a cat lover, and has done other work like this for other vet clinics.
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Itās interesting I didnāt notice that.
Also interesting though that you take it as a sign of malice Iād have chalked it up to ignorance, because I wouldnāt have even considered the idea of pets not looking at a 2D picture.
Must be all those times, my cat tricked me by appearing to watch TV
TV has motion. I do realize that animals watch some TV programs.
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Just search YouTube for ācat TVā or āTV for cats.ā Itās mainly birds and squirrels in the wild, mice running around, aquariums with fish, things cats like.
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Doesnāt that just end up with paw prints all over your TV? 
or a broken TV, depending on how sturdy it is and how big the cat isā¦ 
Last night one of my cats appeared convinced he could get onto the ceiling to reach the bugs that came in when the light was on and the window was a little open. They also both like catching flies
And yeah they love my aquarium, and initially tried to catch things, but luckily itās solid oak and thick glass so they just bounced off. Itās around 5 feet high and they sleep on top sometimes too, guess itās warm
I just meant I personally had never thought about an animal wouldnāt look at a 2D-still-image of a cat/dog find it nice. So when you said the person was exaggerating or even lying, I was offering that they just might have honestly thought it was soothing to animal. I could see myself innocently thinking that by never really deeply think about difference between TV and a Still Image.