How to fix malicious edits

[evanto]

Someone renamed a park and I cannot change it back.

The park is Christie Pits Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Here is a link to the official City of Toronto website for the park: https://www.toronto.ca/data/parks/prd/facilities/complex/196/index.html

Someone has renamed the park "Christie Pitenson Park" for some reason: https ://goo.gl/maps/pbu4LGsb87N2

For the record, the park is named after William Christie who owned a sand and aggregate pit on the site of the current park, in other words William Christie's Sand Pits or today "Christie Pits".

When I try to edit the name and add the website Google Maps denies my edit. I have a probably nearly perfect record of correcting errors so this is a really curious thing.

I figure that even though I'm adding the website, because the name of the park on the website doesn't match the name of the park it auto rejects.

So how do you fix an error when Google Maps doesn't want to let you fix it?

Thanks for the help!

[BKJr]

I have experienced this in the past with someone placing a false name on a small pond in the rear of an office building. I too kept getting rejected and finally just reported the error as if I didn't know how to fix it to see if Google would. It took some time, but it did correct the error. 

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3094088?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en 

On a computer, click the location then the hamburger menu in the top left -> Send Feedback -> click the bottom one "Your opinions..." and in the popup fill in the info, and make sure to include the screenshot.

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@evanto wrote:

Someone renamed a park and I cannot change it back.

The park is Christie Pits Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Here is a link to the official City of Toronto website for the park: https://www.toronto.ca/data/parks/prd/facilities/complex/196/index.html

Someone has renamed the park "Christie Pitenson Park" for some reason: https ://goo.gl/maps/pbu4LGsb87N2

For the record, the park is named after William Christie who owned a sand and aggregate pit on the site of the current park, in other words William Christie's Sand Pits or today "Christie Pits".

When I try to edit the name and add the website Google Maps denies my edit. I have a probably nearly perfect record of correcting errors so this is a really curious thing.

I figure that even though I'm adding the website, because the name of the park on the website doesn't match the name of the park it auto rejects.

So how do you fix an error when Google Maps doesn't want to let you fix it?

Thanks for the help!

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[PaulPavlinovich]

Hi @evanto there can be a lot of different reasons why edits get rejected. Google don't generally tell us why for specific cases. I've had a go at fixing the name for this park and it has gone to "Pending" so we'll see what happens.

The advice from @BKJr is valid, send feedback via the App and describe the issue.

Regards Paul

[evanto]

I find using the feedback button doesn't get results.

What I ended up doing was posting the issue to the Google Maps & Earth Product Forum where it's been escalated to an actual person.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/maps/Nx4ixSTXAMg/TXcrBQmLCQAJ