How to prove a negative? Recent edit being rejected.

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Hi!

I apologize if this is not the place to post this but all related posts I’ve found seem to be in “General Discussion” which is now RO. I’ve been trying to clean up businesses that put pins in places near my neighborhood (I’m in Toronto, ON) and there’s this one place where my edit keeps getting rejected (https://goo.gl/maps/yWJaeRhVFJiDLomZA, where the pin is being dropped is just a corner of a huge park that’s near an intersection). Most of the edits that I’ve made didn’t really require me to provide additional info/photos, so when this one got rejected, I actually went and got photos of the area and it still got rejected. As there was no option for me to write a textual explanation of why that business doesn’t exist, I came to find LGC.

I didn’t think it’d be that difficult to prove this (you can even look at Google street view), but was wondering how/what I can do or what is considered sufficient proof that a place doesn’t exist?

Thanks!

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Hi @Neutrollized

Welcome to Connect.

The place looks shady to me too. For the following reasons:

Online only businesses are not entitled to a pin on Google Maps.

Many of the reviews are from otherwise empty Maps user profiles.

The website is unlikely to be a real business.

The reason you are unable to remove it is the fact that the business has been claimed by the owner.

Could you check if the phone number match with the business name?

Could you check if the business exist by checking your national registry of businesses?

Cheers

Morten

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Thanks for the response @MortenCopenhagen . I didn’t know that once a business is claimed, it couldn’t be removed. Today I learned…

“Personalized and Enchanted” does show up in the Ontario Government Business Registry but does not have a physical address or phone number associated with it in the registry so I’m unable to match it with what’s on Google Maps. Their domain was registered in April 2021. Plus, they’re “open 24 hours”, so it’s clear to me they’re an online only business as well.

EDIT: their (poorly constructed) website also does not list a phone number or physical address – only an email address to email them at plus a few (Instagram) photos.