Reviews not published

Hi @RestoWhim
Welcome to connect and thank you for asking.
In fact from your public profile I can see that 3 of your reviews and 3 of your photos are not published.
If you posted about places inside the in the EU (it seems you are in Paris) you also have an indication about the reason why your review isn’t posted and the action to take.

  • If your review isn’t posted due to the content of the review itself, you may have an option to submit an appeal. But in any case editing the text to make it compliant with the policies can be great.
  • If your review isn’t posted due to an attached media remove the media and post it again

As you said

I would like to inform you that a lot of your visible photos may be in violation of the policies about Superimposed text or graphics
I know that you seems to do this for helping the users, but in fact you are adding information that sometimes are useless and in other cases (dish names) in Google Maps have a specific feature exactly designed for this scope. For more details about this feature please read: Add dish names to dining photos
We can use as an example this review. In there you added 10 photos, all of them are screenshots. Here below couple of example.

7 of them are screenshots of dishes, with superimposed the name of the dish. Totally useless, and impossible to use for visually impaired people. A better option would be to add the real full resolution photo (better quality), to add them as a dish, to add the dish name in the menu when prompted, and maybe adding the name also in the caption, to make them accessible to visually impaired users.


3 of them are screenshots of the Location, again in low resolution, and with a totally useless text with the name of the address of the place. You posted the photos in Google Maps, inside a listing that is clearly showing the name of the address, so there is no need to add it in a superimposed text. Again, it would be better to have them in a better size.

The first question that would come in my mind looking at that contributions would be: Are the photos “original”?

I believe you should fix all of them, because filling an appeal for checking your profile may end in the unwanted result to have more and more contents removed

In addition I want to inform you that I moved your post in a more appropriate Category: Google Maps tips & tricks - Local Guides Connect.
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