URL often have unnecessary parts, typically added for tracking purposes. This tracking parameters sshould never appear in any osm tags.
FB, Google and other add tracking links for various purposes. It means that it is beneficial to turn tag website=http://paris.intersquat.org/les-lieux/le-satellite/?fbclid=de58e340d6aa79a584552a2055042d004b9b19454bc0d7a6046fc81fc90f51 into website=http://paris.intersquat.org/les-lieux/le-satellite/ This urls can be often fixed using an automated script, allowing to use human time on something more productive. Human-made edit will also result in changing "last edited by" (while not allowing to filter out such edits unlike marked bot edit), there are better ways to spot areas requiring fixes and we are not lacking places with QA indicators that manual review is needed. Usually tracking links are added by clueless people who just searched for a website and copied it from FB/Google. There are rare cases of links created to specifically track OSM users see for example * https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/754704241/history ** https://www.cronauerlaw.com/?utm_source=openstreetmap * https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1063808111/history ** http://www.travelerscoffee.ru?utm_campaign=geo&utm_source=openstreetmap&utm_medium=link * https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6817678019/history ** https://www.resotainer.fr/agence-bonneuil-sur-marne?utm_source=open-street-map&utm_medium=recherche-locale&utm_content=openstreetmap&utm_campaign=open-street-map-garde-meubles-bonneuil-sur-marne * https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1684317522 ** http://www.travelerscoffee.ru?utm_campaign=geo&utm_source=openstreetmap&utm_medium=link In general I have not noticed correlation between presence of tracking links and additional issues that would not be detected automatically. Therefore automatic removal of tracking parameters is not causing loss of useful indicators of areas that should be reviewed. Osmose and JOSM validators and StreetComplete are offering better indicators. Automatic removal would allow me to spend time on something more useful, than reviewing all cases where this links are present and confirming them one by one. Proposed bot edit would remove links where all used parameters are tracking users and may be removed. Other links will be reviewed manually to catch also currently unknown tracking parameters. Anchors (#section) will be preserved. Parameters for removal across OSM: fbclid, gclid, campaign_ref, mc_id, utm_source, utm_medium, utm_term, utm_content, utm_campaign Code is tested, I am currently using it in a manual review mode. Sole difference in but run will be disabling of manual confirmation. I have experience with automated edits, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account Yes, editing element will cause it to be edited and change "last edited" date. Effect will be exactly the same in case of using bot and manual edit (which I will do anyway in case of rejecting this automated edit proposal). Note that in case of bot edits you may filter out bot edits marked as automatic. Documentation page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/remove_tracking_parameters Edits that would be made by bot, based on currently present tracking parameters: https://gist.github.com/matkoniecz/6710d066fea6596533f5013040eb5dc1
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