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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 11, 2020, 03:47 by CjMalone@mail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 02:10 +0100, Paul Allen wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>And yet you, and others, keep saying it. "Deprecate" means "express<br></div><div>disapproval of." In the context of OSM, it means "phase out." That<br></div><div>is,<br></div><div>eradicate with the passage of time. It may not be what you mean, but<br></div><div>it's what you keep saying.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Any yet what I described was a phase out with 3 steps.<br></div></blockquote><div>"phase out with 3 steps",<br></div><div>"deprecate".<br></div><div>"get rid of",<br></div><div>"eliminate",<br></div><div>"gradually deprecating"<br></div><div><br></div><div>all mean that the plan is to eliminate the tag.<br></div><div><br></div><div>They subtly differ in how this elimination would<br></div><div>exactly work, but all describe process of<br></div><div>removing tag from use.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Number of steps, length of process is not changing that.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is perfectly fine to deprecate/eliminate tags that are<br></div><div>harmful, I started or helped this process with numerous ones.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But trying to eliminate tag and avoiding calling it<br></div><div>deprecation/elimination is silly.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would also advocate to focus on parts of tagging that<br></div><div>are without known long-standing gridlock. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Like contact:phone vs phone.<br></div> </body>
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