<div dir="ltr">Jack,<div>First off - lets name names. Who is this person? We did have a discussion on Slack a while back about an editor changing trunk to something other than trunk. As far as I know we were successful in reverting many of those.</div><div><br></div><div>Not everyone is comfortable using Slack and I understand. However, they should respond to changeset comments. Especially from someone familiar with the road. If they ignore you, then I would recommend involving DWG. If they just want to argue then but won't join Slack, then I'd invite them to to this mailing list discuss why they feel a particular road should be changed from trunk to primary.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Clifford</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 6:35 PM Jack Burke <<a href="mailto:burkejf3@gmail.com">burkejf3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
Recently, someone has taken it on himself to downgrade most (all?)<br>
highway=trunk roads in the eastern U.S. to just primary. The odd<br>
thing is that the very wiki page he cites as his reason fully supports<br>
keeping them as trunk. Many of them I'm personally familiar with, and<br>
even absent the wiki's definition, they actually make more sense as<br>
trunk from a driving perspective.<br>
<br>
A few other editors have been getting involved in discussions with<br>
him, some helpfully, others not quite. He was specifically invited to<br>
join this mailing list (and tagging), to discuss things, but as far as<br>
I can tell hasn't done so yet. Andy from DWG also suggested that he<br>
join the OSMUS Slack channel, but I can't tell that he's done that,<br>
either.<br>
<br>
Of particular concern to me isn't just his downgrades, but his<br>
attitude about them. Some of his changeset comments basically tell<br>
anyone who disagrees with him to appeal his decision to him, and he'll<br>
decide if the appellant is right or not, and if he catches anyone<br>
reversing his changes, he'll just revert it back. Given his<br>
already-posted attitude about his edits, I'm not sure that trying to<br>
message him privately will do much good.<br>
<br>
I'm going to go ahead and put out here that I've gone ahead and<br>
changed some of them back to highway=trunk anyway, because as I said,<br>
they just make more sense that way, *and* meet the wiki's definition.<br>
And I'm quite sure that he'll revert them as soon as he notices.<br>
<br>
Does anyone have any suggestions, comments, questions, jokes, etc.,<br>
about the situation?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Jack<br>
<br>
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