Before we go further with policy edits, perhaps we should make sure that everyone understands the goals and that there is a consensus about them... That will make the resulting rules or guidelines more acceptable.
Let's focus on the item that triggered the current debate : the requirement for a separate account when imports are involved. >From what I have understood in the recent threads (please correct - or lets put that in some wiki space), the reasons for requiring a separate account when imports are involved are as follow : - Identify the import as an import (itself a sub-class of mass edits) to let moderators focus on that class of potentially widely damaging changes. - Provide context about the import, such as a link to a page clarifying license, attribution, quality and methodology issues specific to the source of data. - Let moderators easily identify all edits derived from a particular source of data, so that they can be processed or reverted if grievous license issues occur with that source. - Let moderators easily identify all edits by a particular contributor, so that they can be processed or reverted if grievous quality issues occur with that contributor. Are there other goals that I have missed ? Once there is agreement on the goals, I believe that we'll find it easier to agree on the means. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk