Personally I would remove this sentence as it sounds rather combative. Our role should be to give supportive feedback:
"If computer programmers (not computers) can't write code to distinguish abbreviations then they probably shouldn't be contributing to OSM." ________________________________ From: Dave F via Talk-GB <[email protected]> Sent: 18 September 2025 12:47 To: OSM Talk-GB <[email protected]> Subject: [Talk-GB] User expanding St to saint in name tags. A contributor has been creating various changesets in London & the South coast changing names of streets & building etc. from 'St' to saint. Such as: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/171594660 He's citing this wiki page. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Abbreviations The comment I left in it's discussion page: "This behaviour needs to be stopped. If the official name is 'St', to represent 'saint', as listed in street gazetteers or signage, then that is how it should be in the name tag (ground truth as it's known in OSM). If computer programmers (not computers) can't write code to distinguish abbreviations then they probably shouldn't be contributing to OSM." I think these changesets should be reverted. Opinions welcome. DaveF
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