# Private residential property - special case? **URL:** \ **Category:** Review Support\ **Created:** [April 15, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/t/private-residential-property-special-case/85468 "2025-04-15T11:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samurel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@samurel](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/u/samurel)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/t/private-residential-property-special-case/85468/1 "2025-04-15T11:36:39Z")
Hello, i was wondering how these statues in what looks precisely like someone’s yard don’t count as private residential property. https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211sKpIJCfPQh2wWRBa57spSdA%212m2%211d46.752715%212d23.5371959%213f83.36%214f7.879%215f0.75 Ive seen pokestops here getting rejected because they are a mural on what is a private residential property, or how some statue _may_ look like it is part of someone’s hedge and the mods here requested him to provide government proof that it’s not private property. But this? there’s 0 ambiguity it’s someone’s home. So i want to learn and see what is the justification of this being able to be a pokestop. ---
**Author:** ![hankwolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@hankwolfman](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/u/hankwolfman)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/t/private-residential-property-special-case/85468/2 "2025-04-15T11:42:02Z")
There are no exceptions to the private residential property rule. If these are indeed on single family private residential property, they should be reported and removed, and they shouldn’t have been accepted in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![TjoeMi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wayfarer/user_avatar/community.wayfarer.scopely.com/tjoemi/32/53015_2.png) [@TjoeMi](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/u/TjoeMi)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/t/private-residential-property-special-case/85468/3 "2025-04-15T12:06:00Z")
You must understand how wayspot approved in the 1st place. they can either approved by niantic auto approve system or incorrect approved by community. Only niantic know who approved it. ---
**Author:** ![samurel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@samurel](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/u/samurel)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/t/private-residential-property-special-case/85468/4 "2025-04-15T12:06:48Z")
i see. Well, my report on it being private residential property got declined… i guess i might have to make an appeal ---
**Author:** ![DTrain2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@DTrain2002](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/u/DTrain2002)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/t/private-residential-property-special-case/85468/5 "2025-04-15T16:30:52Z")
ML hasn’t auto-approved any Wayspot nomination since the end of November 2024. This is a well known issue; it can only auto-reject nominations currently and auto-approve/auto-reject edits. > [@ML Auto-Decision Issue](https://community.wayfarer.scopely.com/t/ml-auto-decision-issue/65797/): > > Hello Explorers, We have identified an issue impacting eMiLy, our Machine Learning system, that was causing some incorrect auto-accept and auto-reject decisions. To prevent any further disruptions, we temporarily disabled both auto-accept and auto-reject features while we investigated the issue. We have since re-enabled the auto-reject feature. However, the fix for the auto-accept issue will take some time to develop and deploy. In the meantime, all nominations and edits that are not automati… @samurel Removal requests tend to need additional evidence, such as photos or a splat from Scaniverse. Just saying it’s on private property isn’t always enough evidence for removal, so I almost always provide a photo when submitting a removel request that I upload to a 3rd party image upload app. Street View is also almost 3 years old, so hard to know if what the Wayspot is for is still there or not, another reason why additional evidence may be needed.