Hi, On 07/11/2016 02:02 AM, Éric Gillet wrote: > If you do a search-and-replace on 20 elements and review manually the > change, it is covered under the AE CoC.
No, the document clearly states in the "Scope" section: "use of find-and-replace functionality using a standard editor such as JOSM or finding using services such as Overpass API and changing without reviewing cases individually;" Sadly, we often have people who run search-and-replace operations and *claim* that they have "reviewed cases individually", and then if you look at their edit, they have changed a tag on a POI that sits in the middle of a road or so - which means that they were either lying, or they have only done a very, very cursory "manual review" of their change. An automated, or mechanical, edit is when you do not look at the individual object you're editing. There is no similar policy covering manual edits. But of course if someone *manually* changes 500 landuse=wood to landuse=forest across the planet, it is still possible that they make a mistake and it needs fixing in some way, or if they do it repeatedly and cause problems with it, they might still be blocked. This is not a court system; DWG doesn't need a law on the Wiki to take action against someone who causes trouble. However, causing trouble through manual edits is so much less frequent than causing trouble with mechanical edits that we have written up a policy on the latter. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk