<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-06-10 11:44 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marc Liotier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jm@liotier.org" target="_blank">jm@liotier.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">    (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Teller_Machine" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Teller_Machine</a>)<br>
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    So an ATM that manages Bitcoin transactions is most definitely
    amenity=atm.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br><br clear="all">wikipedia is not the Bible nor the Coran, it is obvious that there are some flaws in this article, the first paragraph states: "An <b>automated teller machine</b> or <b>automatic teller machine</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Teller_Machine#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Teller_Machine#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Teller_Machine#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup> (<b>ATM</b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English" title="Australian English">Australian</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singaporean_English" title="Singaporean English" class="">Singaporean</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English" title="Indian English">Indian</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English" title="Hiberno-English">Hiberno-English</a>), also known as an <b>automated banking machine</b> (<b>ABM</b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English" title="Canadian English">Canadian English</a>), <b>cash machine</b>, <b>cashpoint</b>, <b>cashline</b>, or colloquially <b>hole in the wall..."<br>
<br></b></div><div class="gmail_extra">It mixes different (sub)-typologies into one article, clearly there are at least subtle differences between an ATM as given by the former definition and a "cash machine" (which is clearly about cash).<b><br>
<br></b></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you look this up in the Oxford dictionary you get this definition: <br><a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/automated-teller-machine?q=Automated+teller+machine">http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/automated-teller-machine?q=Automated+teller+machine</a><br>
"<span class="">A machine that automatically provides cash and 
performs other banking services on insertion of a special card by the 
account holder." <br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="">you can see there is no "or" but an "and" between cash and "other banking services" ;-)<br><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<span class="">I understand that atm can be seen as broadly as incorporating all kind of automated telling even in the absence of actually emitting cash, but I would prefer to use a different tag for this and use atm for machines that actually do give you cash.<br>
<br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="">cheers,<br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="">Martin<br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><br></span> </div></div>