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After editing a few thousand phone numbers in the last week, my
preferred format is <b>contact:phone=+#-###-###-####</b><b><br>
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My reason is that people are starting to use other tags from the
contact:* family so cannot move everything to phone=*, and having
both phone=* and contact:phone=* seems unreasonable. However,
phone-=* is currently much more popular.<br>
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If phone=* is more popular because people keep adding more phone=*
tags simply because it is more popular (self-fulfilling feedback
loop), then maybe moving to contact:phone=* over time might be
reasonable. If people are using phone=* because of dislike of
contact:phone=* then sticking with status quo is better. I don't
know why people use phone=* vs contact:phone=*....<br>
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Thoughts/opinions welcome.<br>
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[I used "phone" in above discussion, however it equally applies to
"fax"].<br>
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On 2018-02-04 11:49 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:B9DF042A-3611-4795-AD46-C4185C3940F5@softworkers.com">I'd
appreciate others to chime in about this, but it seems where
dashes and space characters overlap (are the only difference in
format), those can be conflated together. I'm not sure whether
dash or space ends up as "the winner," but this should reduce the
number of categories.
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As you consider additional conflations, you may be able to do this again and again, getting it down to a fairly small number of formats. I urge additional feedback (here would be good) before additional conflations, but (I keep saying it): nice work.
SteveA</pre>
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