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I think that "Abstain" doesn't count at all. It's like casting a white ballot in a National Council election. If the result has to be either "Yes" or "No", what sense would it make to have 33% "Yeas" and 66% "Abstain"? Think about it that way: ONE "Abstain" is 50% "Yes" and 50% "No". So, we have 1 Yes, two 1/2 Yes and two 1/2 No. So, we end up with 66% Yes and 33% No. :-) More interesting would be: If I'm an officer and don't know whether I should decline or approve a waymark, I might call for a vote and vote "Abstain" for my own. But if the other officers don't vote or vote "Abstain", it will be 0% "Yes" and 0% "No". So, will it be approved then?

Just as you have to prove you're alive with a birth certificate, I don't believe the word "hectagonal" exists until I've been proven its existence. PS: Nice coin.

The question was, whether the word "hectagonal" (with a "C") is an official word or not.

@SMacB: Well, if you enter "Hectagon" at Wikipedia, it will forward you to the page for "Hectogon", which says "hectogon or hecatontagon". For me, that means that "Hectagon" is not the right word and Wikipedia just forwards you to the right page. @FamilieFrohne: Thanks for the link to https://www.merriam-webster.com, but it doesn't even know "Hectogon". @ScroogieII: Thanks for the load of information. If I should ever have to calculate the area of a heptagon, I now know where to look for the formula. I didn't have to do it in the last 50+ years, but you never know. Additionally: Usually I use www.deepl.com, but if I have to translate a language, that deepl.com doesn't know, I use translate.google.com. And sometimes I use both and if their translations differ from each other, I use the one that I think is better. So, I don't trust both of them 100%. Summing up all the information above, I come to the conclusion, that "hectagonal" is not an official word, and if at all, it means "100 sided".

One of my waymarks was lately declined and no, I don't want to complain about that. Not at all. But the reason of the officer made me think: Is there an official source to find out what words exist in English or not? The story: I found a sign in Croatia of a heptagonal (7sided) chapel. The sign says "Heptagonal" in Croatian and Italian language, but the English translation says "Hectagonal". I tried to find a translation for "Hectagonal" and interestingly translate.google.com translates it to the German word "Achteckig" (Octagonal) and www.deepl.com to "Sechseckig" (Hexagonal). Further research led me to this webpage, saying that "hectagonal" is not an English word, but Wikipedia knows at least of "Hectagonal number". So, I'm more than confused and I'm really interested to hear what native English speaking people say. BTW, the officer said, that it is just another word, meaning polygon.

In Austria we have https://www.altlasten.gv.at/atlas/verzeichnis.html ("Verzeichnis der Altlasten" = List of contaminated sites). There are separate lists for each province and lots of detailled information about what is/was wrong with site, the size, the status, etc.

Don't get me wrong. I didn't want you to include artillery, I just wanted to know the difference between these two groups. Thanks for explaining it.

See but it never came true. I wonder how permanent this kind of art is.

I'm a little late on this one, but I was wondering: Why do you exclude artillery ["artillery (cannons, shells, ect. should be waymarked in the static artillery category unless displayed in a museum setting, of which the museum shall be waymarked)"], but allow battlefields that have their own category too? I do not understand that logic.

Mantova/Mantua (and more to come) -> 48.414 (31-3-2021)

Funny, we will travel to Italy too very soon, and I have found a small city that also has no WMs yet.

As an officer of that category, I want to remind everyone that this is an ART category. It's tempting, but don't just copy/paste the description from a waymark for the same grave you made in another category, unless the other description contains a lot of information about the artwork. I and hopefully all the other officers will decline all the waymarks that tell a lot about the person for whom the headstone was made, but little to nothing about the artwork itself. Size, material, color, condition, what is depicted,.... ? So, save your and our time and add a (required) description of the artwork. To make it clear: There is nothing wrong to have information about the person (often it is necessary to know something about him/her to understand the artwork), but the WM should also include as much information about the artwork that you can find.

Same here. We have three email addresses at www.geocaching.com. Most of the visit emails go the primary email address, but some go the 2nd account.

300 is a lot. :-( At least I can repeat that it works if you don't just edit the date, but also the Comment. It then has the nasty text "[Log Edited by xxxxxxxxxx on ...]", but at least the correct date.

You're comparing apples with firetrucks. The category is called "Relocated Structures", not "Relocated Parts of a Structure". In one case the (as far as I understand it) stand-alone Coat of Arms was moved, in the other case all the parts of an unfinished fountain have been moved and in Ariberna's WM two columns of an entire church have been moved. From my point of view, there is much difference with these WMs. And if you don't want any flexibility, then try to understand WHY the officer declined it, and don't pour oil into the fire by saying that "some folks in this game take themselves too seriously and like to make things hard to everybody". Discussion closed - at least for me. :-(

There are people, who say that or something similar, if the officers follow the rules (in their opinion) too strict, and there are also people who complain about other officers if they "approve everything". We all have had such decisions on one or more of our own waymarks. I myself have a different view since I started to be an officer in a few categories. One thing is for sure: I had to decline several waymarks already and never did I "like to make things hard to everybody" and I doubt that there are such officers who do. There may be some that are very strict and others who are more flexible. But as a waymark owner noone should believe that a decline is a personal vendeta or that an entire category is full of strict officers. Just go back one step and try to think about it objectively.

As far as I understand it, the Coat of Arms have always been just a Coat of Arms ("near Gate 1", not part of the gate!) and the parts of the fountain have always been all that existed of that fountain, but the columns of that church are just a small part of the church. What, if they would ever deconstruct a church and everybody can buy a piece of it and include it in their private homes. Hundreds of Relocated structures?

As a side question: I see that there are almost 200 waymarks missing their region in the Mountain Summits category. I assume, that some of them are also the border between two regions. What is usually done then? No region, maybe? Or does a mountain summit always "belong" to one or the other region?

Oooops, sorry. I should read more carefully.

Unfortunately, I don't think so. The Signs of History says: "Ontario Allows only those on the 'search the database' link." and I doubt that this cenotaph is in that database.

I found 2 in Austria, that are in the "Austrian and Swiss National Heritage Sites" category, where I am an officer. I corrected those two.

There is no general answer for that. I guess it depends on which group of persons the cenotaph is for. One possible category would be Citizen Memorials of course. Or one of the War categories in the Monuments department. Further details would be helpful.

The category description of "Odd Fellow Lodges" says: "The goal is to find and photograph Odd Fellows lodges, as well as any homes, encampments, grave yards, or other affiliated locations."

I found the waymark: https://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/wm14AR9, but like Max and 99 said, it would help a lot to know why it was declined in the Medal of Honor category. I also found https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/denis-buckley. Maybe the reason is, that Dennis Buckley was buried in Marietta, GA and the marker is in Ontario, Canada.

The key word is "usually". "convey some knowledge" can also be interpreted as "learning how it feels to walk on stones, sand, fir cones etc. barefoot". Of course, it doesn't fit 100%, but most of these barefoot trails contain natural materials (not broken glass or something ) and I could also say that "Nature Trails" (where you learn about fauna and flora, geology etc.) and "Historic Walks" (where you learn about history) don't fit to each other. You might even say that these two topics are different departments (Nature and History).