On 21 August 2012 14:40, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > Out of interest, which part of the mechanical edit policy did this >> contributor not comply with? As he notes in that forum thread, he >> thought he had followed it to the letter. >> > > Well the venue looks wrong to me to start with - he used a forum for > "development" which doesn't seem like the best place. > > It's the equivalent of using the dev mailing list rather than talk or > tagging. > > Personally I think using the forums rather than the mailing lists is a > problem in itself, although I will grant that it doesn't violate the > documented policy. > > At the end of the day I don't think the policy is tough enough though > really - it should need more than just "half a dozen people voted on the > wiki to tag something differently" before we start doing mass rewrites of > existing tags. > > The fact that we allow these ridiculous wiki votes to determine tagging > "policy" is bad enough, but at least most of us can just ignore the votes > and carry on tagging in the way we always have. Once people start using > those "votes" as as excuse to engage in mass retagging we create a whole > different level of problems.
I see Peter Ito has made some changes to tighten up this "policy" (surely guidance?) I have added some extra notes of caution. This chap obviously got misled thinking he had followed the correct procedure, not realising that OSM doesn't really work that way. Regards, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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