On Thursday 17 January 2019, Guillaume Rischard wrote: > > What we mean is that we’ll intervene for edits the community has > issues with, and that we will not intervene for merely not following > the guidelines.
Note the guidelines themselves claim that they represent "consensus". Without opening the discussion on whether this is actually the case or not i would like to point out that you can't have it both ways. You cannot at the same time say: "These are standards of work on which there is broad agreement they should be followed" and also say they only need to be followed if there is someone positively insisting on them being followed. Now i know this is not what you said, you were only speaking of enforcement by the DWG. But you will see that organized actors will equate "not enforced" with "not binding" and a set of rules those for whom the rules are made for do not feel bound by cannot make a plausible claim to represent consensus. You can also look at it from a different perspective: Quite a lot of people have expressed the need to in the future evaluate if the Organised Editing Guidelines are working. And the only basis for such evaluation could be to measure if they are being followed. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
