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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">15 Aug 2019, 13:33 by dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="AppleMailSignature">sent from a phone<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">On 15. Aug 2019, at 05:33, Joseph Eisenberg <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><span>"The ideal of forcing a proposal ... does not fly with me due to the probability of being cast as 'abandoned'."</span><br></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><span></span><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><span>Using the proposal namespace should not force the original page author</span><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><span>to do anything else in the Proposal process. Most proposed tags are</span><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><span>never discussed on this list, and never move past "draft" status.</span><br></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div><br></div><div>+1, there was a new user (at least new to the wiki, as he hadn’t contributed anything else to the wiki), I think in 2012, who set tens or hundreds of proposals to abandoned for formal reasons (no voting and no modification for some months), some of which might have remained so until now. This included even proposals for tags that had been used hundreds of thousands of times.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For reference:<br></div><div><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Kstaden&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end=">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Kstaden&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end=</a><br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">What is perfectly fine, as long as proposals were actually abandoned.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Is there any popular tag with proposal page set to abandoned state that<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">does not have box at top directing to tag documentation page?<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For many popular tags there are abandoned proposals, tags itself are in active use.<br></div> </body>
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