Additional Information (if any): I’d like to share a concern regarding one of my recently rejected nominations.
I submitted a community service center built by my municipality as a Wayspot, but the response was: “lacking uniqueness and historical significance.”
Here’s my question: why are post offices or even shopping centers approved without issue, while a municipal service center – which clearly provides a public function and value to the community – is considered not eligible?
I just don’t see the logic: is a supermarket really considered more worthy than essential local infrastructure?
These criteria seem inconsistent and, at times, arbitrary.
I’d like to know if others have had similar experiences and whether there’s an actual explanation behind these decisions.
There is a clarification on why some shopping centers are considered eligible:
How does the municpal service center meet any of the criteria of a great place to be social, exercise, or explore? This is a genuine question, since I am not familiar with anything called this.
Your photo looks like there is a nice area that is meant for socializing in front of the building. You could potentially submit that area and use the title of Municipal Service Center Plaza.
In fact, in the additional information I included a photo of the square to show the reviewers the place where people can socialize. On the other hand, I was told to use the ‘signs’ as the main photo, otherwise the reviewers might say that the place doesn’t exist.
Normally a sign is the better option, as it does provide a better focal point for a photo to know you have arrived at the Wayspot when you get there. But this sign does not seem to me to represent the area to be social. Am I making sense with that distinction?
The sign clearly states the name of the service area and that it was built by the municipality… I really don’t understand what the reviewers find unclear.
I will leave this for someone familiar with your part of the world then. I still don’t see what a service area would be. Is it where you get a driver’s license or pay taxes? No need to reply to me.
I was also going to ask about the relationship between what is shown in the main photo and what is shown in the supporting.
The first picture is of a sign announcing building works. If there was some further text on it it is gone. This looks very unlikely to be eligible or permanent (and indeed even when the center is/will be built, all the questions @cyndiepooh raised about what one does there that meets criteria remain completely valid). The candidate doesn’t appear to be shown in the supporting photo (which is necessary for reviewers to verify location - apologies if it is somewhere, the photos you shared appear to be very low resolution - I hope this is because you took screenshots of them and that these are not the actual files being submitted), but the supporting photo is of something infinitely more interesting - and unrelated to the sign in the first photo. To me that square/plaza/whatever you want to call it (as a place to socialize) looks much, much, much more eligible than this sign.
So my suggestion would be to choose one thing to nominate, to focus on it and to make the nomination all about it and how it meets criteria - “yes but there is also this other thing nearby” isn’t relevant for the eligibility. I would be very skeptical of the nomination as currently presented, but I would accept the plaza without hesitation. You have a very nice socializing area here - forget about the dirty sign and nominate this much better candidate instead.
This is not entirely true. I just got my post office nomination rejected. This is just how community review work. Sometime there might be new reviewer which is not familiar with criteria . We dont know exactly but even legitimate nomination sometime got rejected. We can appeal or improve the nomination to resubmit.
This is not a construction sign: in Italy, those are yellow and indicate the start and end dates of the works. This, instead, is an informational sign (white), meant to indicate the presence of a service center on that street. The service center has existed for at least 20 years, while this sign was installed only 1 or 2 years ago, so it has nothing to do with the beginning of construction works.
