On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:53 AM, James Ewen <ve6...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Adam Dunn <dunna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think it should be pointed out that vreimer hasn't made any edits since > > the blocking, and this buggering up was done beforehand (Feb 13, 2010 to > be > > exact). I just think it's worth noting that this Lesser Slave Lake issue > is > > not about vreimer continuing to make poor editing decisions post-block. > It > > would be quite unfortunate if the blocking has scared vreimer off OSM > > (rather than participating and learning); somebody who spends as much > time > > as him on OSM would be a good ally, with more mentorship. > > Yes, indeed... I should have stated more correctly: > > maybe, we have a worse experience with a stubborn newbie not listening to arguments but quite aggressively editing thing in his way
Now I've noticed that vreimer has caused a problem with Lesser Slave Lake... > > In an opensource project like OSM, many hands make light work, but > those hands need to be adding to the quality of the product, not just > quantity. > > I am still amazed how little vandalism we see. over all osm is still going well > vreimer is indeed prolific, but at the same time seems to be > introducing quite a bit of less than stellar quality information. > > It would be in everyone's best interest to steer this individual > towards more helpful editing of the OSM data. > > if possible yes, otherwise it's better to loose someone like that. all the hassle can't be compensated by the little benefit. > It just gets frustrating when you find data that was previously > accurately representing the real world has been rendered less than > perfect, and that almost all of these edits all have the same username > associated with them. > that's why I did the revert. it was obvious bad edit and we all should work on mapping instead fixing broken data. > > James > VE6SRV > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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