Hi, I recently had two location edits approved by the review process but when the portals moved in Pokémon Go they stopped appearing in game. I have never seen this happen before even if the cell the portal is moving to was already occupied by another which was a pokestop/gym already in game and I have no idea why these portals are now no longer showing in game. Below are the affected portals which are still live in games like Ingress but did exist in Pokémon Go but have now stopped appearing when they should
Moving a Pokéstop or Gym into a Level 17 S2 Cell that already contains a Pokéstop or Gym will result in the one being moved disappearing from Pokémon Go, in order for the cell rules to be maintained. A few years back the system was broken and this wouldn’t happen, but it was fixed due to people abusing it.
I’ve not checked to see if your edits have moved things into occupied cells, but it seems likely given what you’ve experienced.
The first one is in the same level 17 s2 cell as “Peterborough East Station Memorial Plaque”
The second one is in the same level 17 s2 cell as multiple wayspots including:
Central Park Informational Board
Three Shiny Cubes
Only 1 PokéStop can be in a level 17 s2 cell
Here is a good article about s2 cells:
Edit: I just saw that you said it’s never happened before even if it’s getting moved into a different cell. In the past, when you moved a wayspot to a different s2 cell, it’d stay in the game. That’s not the case anymore.
Actually this has been happening for quite a while when gyms are moved through help chat edits, that the gym remains even though it shouldn’t. Eventually the gym will most likely go away. It looks like from this post that they may have fixed this edit glitch. Pokestops have been going away as they should.