On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 00:47, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So how do we go with creating a page for a tag that is "in use" but has > apparently never been discussed? > Same way you create any page. Search for the key, or key=value and if it doesn't already exist the Wiki offers to let you create it. Oh, you mean how do you create a page for an in-use, but undocumented, key or value in a way that won't cause somebody to throw a wobbler and insist you delete the page? That's probably not possible. :) Last week, I asked about a Christmas shop, thinking about tagging it as > shop=party, but it was pointed out that shop=christmas has actually been > used 14 times, but apparently has never been discussed anywhere? > > Does that make it "in use" / "de facto"? > Yes. One of those. Probably. Am I OK to just create a page for shop=christmas, so other people know it > exists, or should it go through the full RFC / voting procedure to be > "approved"? > >From https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shop#Others you are allowed to have user-defined values for shops. There's a bit of a chicken and egg situation, because it implies you can only use a user-defined value if it is commonly used (how common?) in taginfo, which it won't be until somebody uses it, which they can't because it's not in taginfo. That said, if it is commonly used, or obviously (to most) sensible, then I'd just add it to the shop page and possibly create a page for the value. Argument for: some editors interrogate the OSM wiki and/or OSM wikidata to populate drop-downs, so adding a page for the value ensures (maybe) it will appear in the drop-down. Argument against: same as the argument for, except with things like denomination it ends up being a very large drop-down (except denomination appears no longer to get the drop-down populated by that mechanism). -- Paul
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