How do I add a memorial of victims of the worst cable car tragedy (Cavalese 1976)?

I would like to add a location and photos of a memorial made for the 42 victims of a cable car disaster that occured near the town of Cavalese in Italy on 9. March 1976. Google keeps rejecting my newly created place and I believe it is for the following reason. The same cable car was subject to another tragedy on 3. February 1998, which is extremely unlikely on it’s own. There is already a memorial made for the victims of the latter tragedy and it is in Google Maps (called Vittime del Cermis) and it is located approx. 200 meters from the memorial of the former tragedy. I wanted to add the memorial for the former tragedy and wanted to name it “Vittime del Cermis (9. Marzo 1976)”, it is in Italian to be consistent with the latter memorial. What I think is happening is that the automated system in Google thinks that I am adding the same place again into Googlemaps, but into an incorrect location. However, this is a different memorial related to different tragedy that happened only 200 metres away. I tried changing the name so it doesn’t consist the words “Vittime del Cermis” so the system doesn’t link it to the latter memorial, but it still keeps being rejected. Is there anything you would suggest or a way to contact Google to add the former memorial manually?

This is the image of the memorial of the former tragedy:

It is smaller than the other memorial, but is publicly accessible via a footpath through a forest.

P.S. I read a discussion that memorials can’t be added due to clutter (as every tombstone could be classed as a memorial), however I believe that if the memorial of the Cermis tragedy of 3. February 1998 (the latter tragedy) is shown then the memorial of the first Cermis tragedy of 9. March 1976, where more than twice as many people died, should be shown in Googlemaps as well.

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This is not an easy to fix problem, @mprovod

Your suggested reason sounds very likely to be true.

If the problem is in fact that the new place is rejected because of similarity with an existing pin, you could try creating it further away and then after approval move it to its correct location.

Altenatively, you could seek help with this in the Maps support forum.

Hit the Community tab at the top and make a post. You need to attach or link to official documentation supporting the existence of the separate pin. Copyright-free governmental maps are probably the best proof you can attach.

Without such official documentation, you are not likely to be successful.

Thirdly, you need to reconsider how helpful is is to have this place on the Map. Places of interest to very few people makes the Map slightly less easy to use for everyone.

Cheers
Morten

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