Back on Nov. 29, I submitted a unique local business as a Waypoint via Pokémon Go. As of today, it has still not shown up on my Contribution Management page. I have contacted Niantic about this via multiple channels, including Wayfarer Support on the help page (Niantic Wayfarer), Twitter/X, and via email.
Can someone from Niantic please respond and tell me what is going on and advise me on how to proceed with this pending submission.
Do you have an email that says it was submitted? If not, maybe it is stuck on your Upload Later, or failed to upload for some reason?
I am not from Niantic, but if it isn’t still pending upload and you did not get an email, then it failed to upload and is simply lost. You will have to remake and submit it again.
Yes, and usually submissions appear on the Contribution Management page within minutes.
Since this post, I have heard back from Niantic on X, who stated the social media team cannot directly address Wayfarer matters. Rather than resubmit, they advised me to open up a support ticket and await further clarification, so it looks like I’m playing the waiting game.
oh interesting! i am going to follow this post. please let us know if they can recover it. in the past, it has simply been lost.
Will do. It’s entirely possible the submission just bugged out, but hopefully the support team’s response will clarify matters.
Staff do monitor the forums, so they may see your post and take a look at why the nomination isn’t in your Contribution Management.
Hi @blcdude, I looked at your submissions and believe you are referring to “Shapiro Path Gazebo”. If this is the one, it was not processed successfully which can happen either due to due to network lag or the image file is not in a supported format. Additionally, I could see that there is already a Live Wayspot for the same object.
To clarify, that is not the Waypoint I’m referring to.
The Waypoint I’m referring to is “Brickify,” a local business/collectible store, and was resubmitted at the request of Niantic staff on Nov. 29. I had initially resubmitted it on Aug. 17 with a photo of the business’s permanent signage per the request of Niantic. Having previously been submitted with a photo of the business’s colorful banner, Niantic staff instructed the Waypoint be submitted with a photo of its permanent signage. After submitting it with a photo of its permanent signage, Niantic staff instructed the Waypoint be resubmitted with a photo of its colorful banner. I’ve done as Niantic asks on this matter, multiple times, and the new submission hasn’t made it to my Contribution Management page.
I’m genuinely confused as how you concluded I was talking about the Shapiro Path Gazebo. That was submitted way back in September 2022, was accepted, and is a gazebo, not a local business.
Hi again @blcdude, the only submission I could locate was “Shapiro Path Gazebo” which was not successfully processed. There might be some network/lag issue and the nomination did not go through for “Brickify” for the second time. I would recommend resubmitting it again.
Fair enough. I’ll file that as under bizarre, as I submitted the Shapiro Path Gazebo more than two years ago, is on my Contribution Management page, and was accepted by the community.
Putting that aside, the latest iteration of Brickify didn’t process and won’t result in duplicate nominations should I put it through again.
@blcdude Yes, you can resubmit improving the description of how this business is unique and distinct to the community which will increase the odds of approval.
Happy Exploring!
Are you familiar with Upload Later? It sounds like you may need to use this feature for this nomination. That allows you to click submit, but the nomination stays in local memory on your device until you get to an area with reliable network. Then you can upload your saved submissions. Many wait until they are at home on their wi-fi connection.