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OK. Now let's see if it works.

There are several categories where I am not the leader but the only active officers. I have not tried it before, but it looks like I can promote new offices and this goes to vote. So after a couple of days (three I guess) the new member is promoted when 66% of the votes are Yea. Am I right so far? I am not going to promote random regular members, because this has happened to me more than once. I just wanted to see whats going on and who is still active, I was not interested in the topic. So want to start with: Live Stage Theaters Arch Bridges Roman Catholic Churches The first two categories are quite easy and have a history of very tolerant approvals (Maybe I would accept less if I had founded them). Roman Catholic Churches is also easy, but it has a few hidden problems. First, there is an impossible requirement. Both the archdiocese and diocese are required. But there is probably no a single church on this planet that is in a diocese and in an archdiocese. There was a misunderstanding of the Catholic hierarchy by the founder, and I cannot change the description. Second: there are a few churches that call themselves Catholic, but they are not Roman Catholic (like Old Catholic churches or some traditionalist communities that are not in full communion with the Holy See). Those are not accepted in the category. On the other hand there are some churches that do look more Orthodox or eastern than Catholic for the layman, but they accept the pope and are full members of the Catholic Church, they are accepted in the category (The most popular example of the latter is probably the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, but there are many others). I'll test with these three categories. If it works well, maybe there are some more to come. Who is interested?

True, I have never tried that before. I have a similar one: When you search for coordinates "exclude waymarks I've visited" and "exclude my waymarks" do only work on all categories.

My suspicion is that this category was not very well thought out and never reworked. Probably created with only English speaking countries in mind. They wanted to accept gaps that do not have the word "Pass" in the name. Later they realized that they had to accept all passes of the world except the ones from English or German speaking areas. So they sort of unofficially grandfathered this requirement. But is still there and when an officer has a bad day an occasional denial is absolutely possible. It's a mess.

This happens quite often. Just now I have a waymark waiting for over three weeks in a category I am officer. I would never approve my own waymarks. Sooner or later waiting waymarks will be approved by wayfrog. Can you wait a few days more (maybe weeks)? The perfect solution would be to get some new active officers. This is some effort, but the way to do it is quite well documented somewhere here in the forum. I must confess that I haven't done that yet. For me, currently, fast approvals are not essential. tl;dr: Don't approve your own waymarks.

Happy Birthday and all the best for your future.

I hope this will come true. For me it is not that far. The direct trains from my hometown to the center of Paris have only about three hours. It still took 34 years since my last visit. Time, budget, family, you know... Oh, and there was a strike on the day of the return. We were some of the few lucky ones who managed to get home with a route that only was 350 km longer and we only lost seven hours. The railway staff in Paris had no idea about that route. They just said: "Take a hotel and try again tomorrow, but we already know, that then we'll have to tell you to wait another day, because all connections are overbooked."

Thanks Keith, you are absolutely right. This does not really make sense. I just tried something to express my feeling that (and how) these two things are completely different. It did not work, of course. I cannot even blame the language. It does not work in any other language as well. It was just wrong. But the feeling is still the same. For me, they do have nothing in common. Not nothing of course, but in relation to the category. I just have no idea how to define that. Anyway, it is not my category. If they accept it then I'm happy for Andreas, but if not, then I understand that. And I am also happy that it is not my job to find and understandable and acceptable definition.

The decision does not surprise me. The building is not an "Olympic Non-Competition Venue Structure" in the spirit of the category. It may be (depending on the exact definition) an "Olympic Non-Competition Structure", but it is not an "Olympic Venue Structure" for sure. And for sure as well there are some Olympic memorabilia inside this house that would qualify as waymarks. But these are independent items and not the building.

Oh, another great page from you, I did not know. I do have 4 inactive categories? These are the ones with my own submissions waiting for wayfrog, everybody else will be served within 48 hours the latest, except when I am on holidays. And I left a couple of well staffed categories where I previously had approved waymarks. So the overall count is also not entirely correct.

I had not noticed this post until I read Keith's response. It must have been around the time when I unintentionally hit the "Mark site read" button after I returned from a few days in Paris. I sure missed a few other threads. So better late than never, although Andreas already got it to the point. Thank you and everybody who brings something positive to this game.

I think they should be included in the Gazebos category. Are there enough of them to justify a category on its own? And they are so similar, it would just confuse the users. And after all, they are "octagonal or hexagonal" when you look at the shape of the main part. The non-existing "walls" between the pillars form an octagon or hexagon. Only the roof and the base are round, but that is a minor detail in my eyes.

I am not sure. The category is about Olympic games and athletes that have participated. A national Olympic committee is the organization behind it and per se not part of the game (unless maybe, some specific games are domestic). So you cannot be sure to have your submission accepted, the description is silent about this aspect. But give it a try, then we know. Or ask the group to officially include those sites.

First the plain facts: Archiving does not influence your stats. And it does not have an effect on visitors either. That's the basic reason why it's not even possible to really delete a once approved waymark. The other aspect is more about personal preferences and the such. The effort spent on the given waymark is one side. I completly understand that you don't want that to be wasted. This is maybe reason enough to let a "dead" waymark stay still active. My (very personal) focus is on avaiability and accessibility of information. Maybe your waymark is the only documentation of this site at a given point in time. Don't hide it, it is nowhere else. Maybe some future historians would be thankful for that minor piece of information about our recent past. What I do in this situation is to change the waymark a bit. I add something clear to the title like "{LEGACY}" at the beginning and an "Edit: " with the date of knowlegde of the change and its reason at the beginning of the short and long description. This solution is not perfect for potentional visitors, I know, but still the best I can think of.

The quality is going down currently and that is a problem. It is not a new problem, but in the past we had enough new waymarkers who soon developed a sense for the true spirit of the game and that quality in text and picture are essential and more important than the numbers. And we had several waymarkers with high numbers and high quality (We still have, but the balance is not there anymore). Beginners are beginners. They don't even know what is right or wrong without being told carefully. And we hope they will develop and become good waymarkers. Sadly the truth is, you decided to no go that way. You decided to stay an eternal beginner, to not care about anything than numbers, to try to bend any rule and to rely on the patience of the officers forever. After a while every officer will notice that this patience is wasted. We recently hear a lot about over-tourism. Many famous tourist locations worldwide see themselves in a position that they have to take measures against this phenomenon. A single tourist not behaving perfect is not a problem, but the mass is destructive. They don't want to set up those limitations, but they are forced to. Now we have something similar in Waymarking. And the basic conflict behind this thread is the question if an officer can bend the rules to slow down a problem waymarker that bends the rules as well. I honestly feel with said officer, but unfortunately the answer seems to be no. So we need another solution, we cannot just move on like before, because this trend is really destructive and has to be stopped somehow.

Static Train Cars should work. It looks like they also accept tramway cars. And Dining Car Restaurants might be worth a try as well. The category description does not support this, but there are already several approved examples like yours.

A funicular is defined by its drive technology and nothing else. (It does simply not work if it is not steep enough, but that's just physics and has nothing to do with a category description).

It's no problem to post a fountain that provides water to the population. The excluded "drinking fountains" have a very narrow definition and historic fountains hardly ever fit this definition.

Date fields should not be used, anyway. In a text field you can enter a date, a year, a month, a time span or any guesstimate in any wording you like. Much better. And it is impossible to enter dates before 1/1/1000 even if you know it exactly (this has already happened to many European waymarkers).

There are no active waymarkers within a couple of hundred kilometers from home and I know them all. But I met GT.US about twelve years ago. She was on the way from Slovenia to France, if I remember correctly, and it was a very short meeting. She did not find a free and legal parking spot in the area and was quite in a hurry to move on before the police arrived.

Not so bad, 10 degrees is almost t-shirt weather.

The officers want to see running water as an evidence that the fountain is not abandoned. Around here many fountains are stopped during winter to prevent the tubes from freezing. So, I'll usually have to wait until spring. I guess, you'll have to wait for a more humid season.

OK, that's not good. But until now I have never seen (or heard of) anything else than E to W and rarely S to N. Here it is worse than you think. It is only noticeable after an officer has approved the edit. This can take a few days.

Although the problem is very annoying, the situation is not as dramatic as you think. First, it only happens in one direction: S to N or E to W. Never the other way. So only a part of the waymarkers are affected. This is you and me and many others, but there are more who never experience this bug. Second, the majority of the wrong coordinates end up in an ocean, this is easily (nobody is perfect, but it works often enough) detected by the waymarker before submittal or by the reviewing officer. There are not that many areas with an active Waymarking community that have the corrupted coordinates on land. The wrong coordinates ending up in the right country (with map inscriptions in the correct language) can only happen in Eastern England, Eastern France and Southern Brazil (and a lot of countries with basically 0 Waymarking activity). Ending up in the wrong scavenger hunt almost never happens, it is just not ending up in one although it could, but this is random anyway. No chance to visit is not good of course, but potential double posts are the only real issue.

It is quite some work. But in your case, it is worth it. (And that's not a given.)