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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 23:59, Paul Allen
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<div>There's a hierarchy of tag acceptability based upon
how much forethought has gone into it.</div>
<div>Proposed and approved. Proposed and rejected.
Proposed and lapsed. Widely used.</div>
<div>Used once or twice. Used once by somebody who
didn't know there was already an approved tag.</div>
<div>Ideally we document as many of those as possible
and indicate how acceptable they are with the</div>
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<div>My point was that "proposed" is not the same as
"informal." Proposing a tag is part of a formal</div>
<div>discussion process that may lead to acceptance or
rejection. Informal is me wanting to tag</div>
<div>some type of object, being unable to find a
suitable tag (or being too lazy to look), and just
making it</div>
<div> up ad hoc. As we had with landuse=clearing a
while ago. Which should probably be documented</div>
<div>as deprecated along with the correct way to do it
(multipolygon with an inner area, maybe without</div>
<div>any other tag if you're unsure what is there other
than not-outer). Informal or ad hoc would be</div>
<div>somebody made up a tag for which there isn't
already a better alternative and it isn't yet in</div>
<div>widespread use.<br>
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<div>So using a real example here, lets go back to my
shop=caravan from a few weeks back.</div>
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<div>I asked what we should tag a caravan dealer as &
somebody replied just use shop=caravan as it's already in
use, as it was, 140 odd times, but not documented.</div>
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<div>I then created a page for it, which, after discussions
& taking in other points of view, was modified several
times, along with several other pages for possible
alternatives, suggesting people use the =caravan tag.</div>
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<div>As the shop=caravan tag was already in use, I didn't put
up a formal RFC or ask for a vote - should I have? (&
no-one complained at the time that I hadn't)</div>
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<div>So would you call that tag approved, widely used,
informal or what?</div>
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The rate of use can be seen with the taginfo information. Lets not
duplicate it in the status information with some subjective term. <br>
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Status presently has (together with my understand of what that
means);<br>
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blank - this is what I use to create a new page. I leave the status
value blank. Probably interpreted as 'undefined'<br>
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--- Part of the proposal process --<br>
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draft - draft for a proposal<br>
proposed - a new proposal, usually in 'request for comments' stage <br>
voting - a proposal in 'voting' stage where people can vote on it<br>
rejected - a proposal that has been rejected by voting<br>
accepted - a proposal that has been accepted by voting<br>
abandoned - a proposal that has been dormant for some time<br>
cancled - a proposal that has been cancelled by the proposer (note
the spelling) <br>
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--- Outside the proposal process --<br>
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undefined/invalid - a proposal that has no status, or an
unrecognised status value?<br>
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in_use - a tag that is in wide use<br>
defacto - a tag that existed before the formal proposal process and
is in wide use - viewed as similar to approved<br>
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depreciated - a tag that is being replaced with another tag or other
tags.<br>
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I think any other values are going to be interpreted as 'undefined'.
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The status value is really a wiki page thing and should be discussed
there? At least some notification that this is being disscused here
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