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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">27 Apr 2019, 01:54 by dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>A few people continue to add unused tags and properties to feature definitions, e.g. looking at the page for tourism=guesthouse, which is quite long in the meantime, you can find "proposed" values with names like<br></div><div>"fridge"<br></div><div>"stove"<br></div><div>"drying:room"<br></div><div>"dinner"<br></div><div>which all hardly reach a 2 digit number of usage.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dguest_house" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dguest_house</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>For the "view" tag there isn't even a definition.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I believe treating the wiki like this will generally lead to a decline in quality of our documentation, because immature tags are pushed that haven't undergone any kind of peer review (aparently).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Am I the only one with these concerns?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">No, you are not the only one. In case of such barely used tags added in the form of <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">an unreadable table I think that immediate revert of such edit is the best solution.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Inventing new tags is OK, using new tags is OK, documenting new tags is OK and desirable.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">But linking your tag that is barely used everywhere is an unwelcome spam.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">In such situation I revert edit as soon as I spot it, especially for users who did it already<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">many times and have aggressive usernames that claim to not be experts rather than newbies.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">example of previous spam wave (mass spamming of broken shop=street_vendor tag):<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835047">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835047</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=ES:Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835048">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=ES:Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835048</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=FR:Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835049">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=FR:Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835049</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=NL:Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835051">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=NL:Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835051</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and in many other languages, also for other shop types<br></div> </body>
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