When submitting a Wayspot Appeal, make sure to include as much of the following information as possible:
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Wayspot Title: Frederik IVs Segl
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Location (lat/lon): 55.680839,12.575317
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City: Copenhagen
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Country: Denmark
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Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information): N/A
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Additional Information (if any):
This Wayspot was removed during the past week. I am struggling to understand why, and hoped you would be able to clarify and/or restore the Wayspot.
The Wayspot is a medallion stone, as pictured, set on the facade of a ‘kollegium’ (student dormitory), in one of Copenhagens oldest buildings from 1703. The building itself was given protected status as one of the first when Denmark made laws to preserve older buildings in 1918, and has been the living quarters for many famous Danes during their time at university, including H.C. Ørsted, but that is a fun little aside I suppose.
The medallion stone itself is a sandstone relief with a portrait of King Frederick IV of Denmark, and was put there to honor him as the reigning King when the building was finished.
I think there is plenty of historic value in the monument (from 1703!), the location was correct, it was not on a single-family private residence. I do not understand why it was removed, and if it was nominated today I would 100% lean towards approving it as a great place for exploration. I would love to be more precise in my appeal (or understand why it wasn’t a good Wayspot), so I hope you can share the reason behind its removal.
Thanks in advance & all the best,
Jakob
Ps.
The name was slightly off; perhaps more correct would be “Sandstensrelief med portræt af Frederik IV”, as a ‘Segl’ would technically translate to ‘Seal’ (as in the type you would use to seal a letter with wax), though it is often used as in the English ‘Sigil’ (as in “The Sigil of House Baratheon”) - but I guess it probably isn’t a technically incorrect phrasing that got the Wayspot removed :-).
