BruceS

I personally don't approve my own waymarks but there is no rule written or unwritten against approving your own waymarks. I do request officers in categories I lead not to approve their own waymarks as more of a best practice.

As again this thread spiraled out again to personal attacks and is far off topic I am closing this topic.

To clarify a few things: Actually I only have "privileges" in the forums and not the Waymarking site. Lumbricus does not have "privileges" in either place. Waywizard has limited "privileges" on Waymarking site, ie. final approval of category, moving categories within directory, changing icons, changing category titles, approving waymarks in stagnant categories and a few other miscellaneous thing. Any group changes are reserved to Groundspeak.

So do Bear Statues, Dog Statues, and Lion Statues. I am not suggesting we should have a separate category for every animal, but goat statues are actually quite common in Europe (I have pictures of a few). So, if it works for Lions and Tigers and Bears, sorry, Lions and Dogs and Bears, it should work for goats. Or, (as I have seen a number of cow statues too), maybe we could expand it to Farm Animal Statues. The specific animal category pre-date figurative sculptures category. One reason it was created was so there would not be separate categories for each animal.

Actually if there are regular members the first one will automatically get promoted. Only goes to auto-approve if there are no regular members to promote.

Still waiting for my waymarks to be approved. I'm debating whether to update the others until the first ones are approved. Why not update them all that way they can all be approved at once. Makes zero sense to wait.

I think this post covers most of the things that sometimes happens in reviewing Waymarks. My recommendation is not to read more into the comments than intended. The reviewer wants to get your waymark approved once meeting the requirements of the category or they would not have created or volunteered to help review Waymarks in the category. Sometimes the decline notes may be short and be viewed as being terse when in fact they were intended to get to the point of what is needed to fix the waymark and nothing else. If you do not understand what needs to be done to fix your waymark from the decline note contact someone in the group. They should never be taken personal. Also if you have a Waymark declined it is best not to bring it to the forums. It is best to work with the category group to get it approved. First bringing a declined waymark to the forums may bring you sympathy from other forum participants but it probably won't help you get your waymark approved. Second whenever a waymark is brought to the forums only one side of the situation is presented and often there is other information needed to really understand the situation. My final point please keep all political comments out of this forums.

Groundspeak is aware of this problem. It is tied to how a particular Google api appears to have changed how it works which broke this feature. It does not appear that it is difficult to fix on the surface but there is no estimated time it will be fixed.

Groundspeak is aware of this problem. It is tied to how a particular Google api appears to have changed how it works which broke this feature. It does not appear that it is difficult to fix on the surface but there is no estimated time it will be fixed.

The maps seem to be working for me today though they did seem to take a while to load. At first I thought they were not working and then they appeared.

Trackman should be a Figurative Public Sculpture, as it is recognizable as a human form. If Trackman is too abstract of a human form for Figurative Public Sculptures then it would likely fit in Abstract Sculptures.

There are many people who do not ever post in the forums but do read them often. Also when things get posted in the forums, it is easy for others, including friends of leader, to see it and look up the group and inform the leader of the post.

This is the problem with the icons not syncing between the servers. There is a job that is supposed to run automatically to do this but does not run automatically. The job must to be now run manually now by Groundspeak. Once the icon for the most recent category is uploaded Waywizard will request the job to be run.

I often get the feeling that officers and leaders don't realize how frustrating it is for submitters when all of them have gone on "sabbatical". I would hope that they do care. Sometimes there are things that happen in people's lives that take a much higher priority than Waymarking and approving Waymarks. When I was battling cancer I got a couple somewhat rude emails when waymarks were not approved fast enough a "frustrated" Waymarker, I think it might have been a whole 2 weeks.

My personal opinion: RitC if I was the group leader for this category and I lead several I would have demoted you and kicked you of of the group by now just for not working with the group and bringing it to the forums with a negative "la la land" opening post. I might promote a person or two or I might just set a reminder in my phone for every week or two to check in case I missed an email. After all this category has had less than 20 submissions in the last year, which is less than many categories get in a week. I doubt Groundspeak will or should take any action toward this group leader except maybe advise him to promote an officer or two as he has reviewed more than half of all waymarks in the category including two in the last month.

It's completely wrong, i followed exactly the suggestion, how can you write this without checking if it's true or not ? I explained everything in the first post, why should I be a liar ? The waymark was declined in "Figurative sculpture category" the 09/30/2106 I submitted just after in "Car parts category" and it was first approved the same day but it was declined the 10/01/216 for the following reason : So as it was suggested i submitted again in "Figurative sculpture category" but the raison to decline it changed to : And only after officer's vote started, after all these activities. It's really easy to prove this, you just have to watch past activities of each group, and i kept all emails with timestamp. Everybody in the forum gave arguments to confirm this waymark fits in the "Figurative sculpture category" Last time, i thought my waymark was an utility box, everybody in the forum said "no, it's not", so i did not insist and changed the category. As a moderator you need to be objective and not subjective, there is no requirements in the category to decline my waymark and rules should be the same for everybody, leaders, officers and waymarkers. I am also in the Figurative group thus I will be subjective on this one. When you resubmitted there was no indication that you had submitted to the Car parts category. There was no note to that fact in the private notes part of the submission. Thus when the vote was called it was not known that you had done as requested. This is clear from what was written when the vote was called, indicating that was requested of you. The only note was that there are no car part in the sculpture, not that you had submitted it and that it had been declined n by the car part category. Members of one group can not see the activity in another group unless they are members of that group.

I don't understand, i submitted it to car parts (before write to the forum), they declined it but she did not accept it, and she's still writing she will approve it. It's not my idea of Waymarking, i am really disappointed With this kind of behavior, it will be difficult to become Waymarking more popular... You were told to submit it to the car parts sculpture category and if it was denied by that then to resubmit it to the figurative sculpture category. However you immediately resubmitted to the figurative category and then submitted it to the car parts category. It was put to vote in the figurative category as it had not yet been declined in the car parts category. If you would have done as instructed and waited until you had received the decline from the other category to resubmit you have had different result. At the time the vote was taken the decline in the car parts category had not taken place.

I do agree that there are a relatively low number of LDS temples however their churches and temples are used for distinctly different functions thus I would understand if there was resistance to combining the two. Though it is worth asking if they would expand the existing category.

Yes of course! That's the point. I first posted it to the Figurative Sculptures category where it was rejected because of 'car parts'. So I tried it at the car parts category. There it was rejected again because there are no car parts. So this is the same issue as in the described case of Alfouine. I think this sculptures are figurative - but I'm neighter the leader nor an officer in the figurative sculptures category. That one looks abstract enough to post to the abstract sculpture category. I have posted a couple that were kind of figurative but quite abstract to the abstract category as it was more fitting.

Since OP deleted original content of open post I am closing the thread.

Not absurd at all but rather reviewer misidentifying the construction material and then applying the following part of the Figurative Public Sculptures category requirements "If the Waymark can be posted in another category, that is where it belongs first"

Works well. Thanks for the great script.

I think this might fit in the Weird Story Locations category.

Agree. I am therefore closing this thread as that is a more appropriate place for this discussion.

Moving to website bug section of forums.