Anthony wrote:
I said on a mailing list that I traced from Google. The LWG asked me which of my edits should be deleted. I told them none of them should be deleted. So naturally they deleted all of them.
That settles the point of whether or not the removal of your contributions was justified. Tracing from Google imagery is not allowed - this has been said many times, in case it was not already clear from Google's license. You did not clarify when asked and the administrators made the prudent choice of wholesale removal : no one here want to risk tainting the OpenStreetMap database with data that put it at legal risk.
Now, as for how the removal was handled, I believe there is room for improvement : the removal should have been a revert (including the deletions) and not a deletion like what seems to have happened. Could the administrators who executed the removal chime in to tell us how it was done ?
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