The use of these tags within the UK seems to be relatively unproblematic because they are UK terms that people in the UK understand and recognise as distinct from things like parks, gardens and recreation grounds. These tags have taken on new meanings in other countries which some view as problematic. I have no opinion on how other mapping communities use these particular tags, but the notion of discouraging the explicit tagging of these features even within the UK seems bizarre. Yes, OSM is a global database, but that is not to say that country-specific feaures ought not to be explicitly tagged. OSm is - I think - a great means of recording such diversity. I don't particularly see a problem with tags being used to mean subtly different things in different countries as long as there is consistency within countries. I don't expect features tagged leisure=nature_reserve or highway=secondary in the UK to be very similar to similarly tagged features in Botswana.
Adam
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