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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/05/2022 23:08, Minh Nguyen wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:t5hc58$ktn$1@ciao.gmane.io">I
think office=government government=official would avoid this
confusion and potentially apply to a broader range of facilities.
Would there be interest in migrating to this tag instead, for the
physical offices that are apolitical in nature? </blockquote>
<p>At least in the UK, the term "government" is very specific and
being an elected representative =/= being in government. <br>
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<p>"HM Government consists of the Prime Minister, their Cabinet and
junior ministers, supported by the teams of non-political civil
servants that work in government departments." [1]</p>
<p>It is therefore incorrect (at least in purely British
terminology) to tag a politician's consistency office as being a
government office. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/05/2022 00:13, Graeme Fitzpatrick
wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">To me a "Government Official" is a
public servant / bureaucrat i.e. employee / staff member, not
somebody who has been elected?</div>
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<p>I also agree with Graeme, government official is probably not a
politician.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/05/2022 08:24, Martin
Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">so we do not want to cover campaigning offices with
the tag? office=politician sounds as if it could cover different
kind of facilities, a campaign office for an individual
politician but also a working office (non public) and an office
where the politician will meet with citizens. Maybe the
non-public working office will not be tagged like this. because
it will be inside a bigger structure where several of these
offices are, which will get some office=government tag.</div>
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<p>I think campaigning offices are probably OK - though I don't
think such usage would be very wide in the UK. Perhaps we could
have a sub-tag politician=* to specify the type of politician
(e.g., politician=member_of_parliament, or politician=local, or
politician=national_candidate).<br>
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<p>[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/relations-with-other-institutions/parliament-government/">https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/relations-with-other-institutions/parliament-government/</a></p>
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