I am local guide level 8 and my road edits take so long to approve or dont get approved at all.
I have multiple google accounts, but on the others I dont do local guide things. I was waiting over a month on a road name change to approve. I decided to use my other google account. The road name was approved after a few days. On my local guide account it still shows pending.
I had this before too. Then I used my mother in laws account and same thing happened. I find it really strange, because over the years I have made many edits that were approved.
Possibly this is a “new user credit” , i.e. giving a priority to users editing a road for the very first time, just to encourage them to do more?
No, I haven’t experienced that and never heard about something similar. @ErmesT did you?
Hi @Iris240197 , welcome back with an interesting question, so thank you for the tag, @WilfriedB
I am not sure how Google Maps consider this kind of edit. I mean, it is indeed under the Road edit feature, both on mobile and desktop. However, I just make a couple of test, and looking at the edit list it seems to be managed in a different way:
there is not a link to the position of the edited road. While it’s pending the coordinates of the link on mobile are 0°00’00.0"N - 0°00’00.0"E, while on desktop there is no link
The attributed name is not visible on the details of the edits
On the road editor for desktop the edited road is white, while we know that the pending status of an edited road is a dotted orange segment
Normally to have the name of a road approved Google must rely on an official documentation: an official map issued by the Local administration, with only (as far as I know) one exception: when the unnamed road is a new segment of an existing one. In that case if we add the same name the edit is usually approved.
In this case it seems like the new edit acted as a fact checking for the previous one. But in this case, when the edit is related to a POI, normally Google approves the edit for both the users who submitted it.
Iris, can you share a link in Google Maps of the position where the edited road is?
Nope, @WilfriedB
I am talking about what I see when I submit a road name with my account.
Honestly, I don’t think “beginner’s luck” can be applied to road editing.
Hi Ermes, when I try to rename the road, Google maps does not give me the opportunity to give extra documentation. I do have though, if that were needed. This is the road that I changed name of: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ms1wRuuWehW2Je2n7
So old name was Sluijterstraat, which was incorrect spelling. It should be Sluyterstraat.
It has been approved on my other account, but not on my local guide one.
Great, @Iris240197 , Thank you so much for the details.
Actually this is the third case, not mentioned above: when Google can verify the change using documentation acquired by itself, in this case Street View.
I think the name will be updated also in Street View in a couple of days
The doubt that remains is the same as that raised by you: Why was it approved only when another account made the same edit?
In fact it is as if the second edit had increased the priority of the verification.
Please let us know when yours will be approved too
, i.e. giving a priority to users editing a road for the very first time, just to encourage them to do more? 
