Am 22.11.2010 10:49, schrieb Tom Chance:
Ulf, the proposal introduced a new set of tags to specify the type of power=generator, deprecating two existing tags. The new set of tags is more powerful and loses none of the detail made possible by the old tags.
I'm not gonna argue with you, wether the new proposal is better than the existing stuff, as that's not the question to ask.
When that happens, the only logical course of action is to update the wiki documentation showing the new tags and removing the deprecated tags. It makes no sense to continue telling people about deprecated tags.
First of all, please repeat a hundred times on the blackboard: There's no such thing as a deprecated tag in OSM. Especially not, if the new proposal is only a few weeks old ;-)
Your "logical course of action" has a quite unlogical component: As long as editors, the database and renderers using the existing tags - as they do - it's quite unlogical to remove the description about those tags in a hassle. This will e.g. confuse anyone looking for the intention of those tags as found in the database.
Another thing already mentioned quite often: 20 out of 200000 mappers isn't a reasonable amount of people to force ideas over all others. It's an indication that it is probably a good idea - but not more. If the mappers think your proposal is a good idea they will use it. But that's up to the mappers.
So I'll herefore ask you to change the page back to it's original state. Adding a noticeable remark / link to the "approved" proposal page is perfectly reasonable, simply replacing the existing content is definitely not.
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