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Cache may have been hidden long before it was submitted...just saying.

Will there be something special for the creator of the 500 000th waymark?

In my experience, statistics reflect only the date that you entered your on-line log, not the date within the log entry. Statistically, both waymark posts and visits will be based on the date you were on line. I have not yet determined which time zone is used for the statistic dating.

My iPad is working now.

Same here

...and welcome to the forum.

Like other waymarkers, I wanted the Grand Openings category to include the Waymarking proposed here. I've had a submission rejected for reasons cited already. To add to the confusion, here is my question. Would Grand Openings waymarks actually be accepted in this new category?

Unless I misunderstand, I think contributors to this thread are saying the opposite. No to family history centers because they will already be included under the archives category.

...so many views but no visits yet.

Welcome to the different world of Waymarking.

I liked your idea so much that I stole the jpg and went off to add it to one of my cache pages. Shame on me, none of my caches are near waymarks.

By profession, I am a family historian, spending five days a week in archival facilities. Excepting storage facilities not open to public and the aforementioned LDS family history centres, the places I frequent would all be covered by other categories.

Your posted waymark is an objective description of the waymark. When you visit your waymark, you can then add those less objective comments about the waymark that were not appropriate for the posted description.

I accept that Groundspeak will not be making changes to the process. However, is it still possible to educate future category creators concerning category-types which are no longer acceptable to the community? Thanks to this forum, I now know that limited-availability categories (and many commercial categories) would no longer be accepted. But for those future category creators who actually work outside of this forum, how will they know not to waste their efforts on a category-type that is no longer true to Waymarking?

Aside from the criteria which appear for our guidance when we use Peer Review, are there other written instructions for what makes or does not make a good Waymarking category? Question 2: is there any point in adding/revising instructions to the Peer Review process or should the Peer Review process itself be reconsidered?

Bon Echo's comments confirmed why we tried. However, the Waymarking community has spoken.

Thank you for that encouragement.

According to the list, saopaulo1 visited only 5 grid types.

I guess I should have called on caching friends to stack the votes.

I'm curious about the process. Is it a 50% +1 vote that decides? Is it more complicated? Considering all the comments about impermanent waymarks, is there any hope in trying again?

I hope the discussions continue.

Concerning the many comments accompanying the negative votes, is there a Waymarking regulation which states that a waymark must be permanent? Similarly, is there a Waymarking regulation which states that a waymark can be visited by a waymarker at any time? The race courses that we wish to waymark are permanent. The start and finish co-ordinates do not vary from event to event. In fact, many of these courses have permanent features that exist between the running of the races. As examples, the 15k Boilermaker in Utica NY has permanent mile-markers on display. The blue lines that mark marathon courses such as the New York City marathon are visible all year long. However, Waymarking only those race courses which have permanent features is too small as a group to be global. Waymarking any permanent courses during the race events allows for global Waymarking.

Peer review is not going well. Should we be discouraged? FYI, if the category included 5k events and events with less than 100 runners, my city alone would include over 100 potential waymarks in the category.

In the history of running races, standard race distances have sometimes used miles and sometimes used kilometres. For example, ten-mile races still exist, sixteen-kilometre races never have.