<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div>> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I don't think you could argue with "perceived by many as unreasonable" - just wade through the recent archives of the talk mailing list again and weigh the arguments for and against.</span></div><div><br></div><div>It's just not ok to call out an individual like that. It's not appropriate, not correct and not helpful. The dynamic of the discussion be expressed much better, with full information, without disrespecting each other. I'm happy to find ways to help WeeklyOSM if you all agree that the issue of impartiality is an important and serious one to take on.<br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpdc200d9signature">* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div></div>
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On Friday, November 17, 2017, 1:35:58 PM EST, Andy Townsend <ajt1047@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div class="yiv2969320049yqt0825773067" id="yiv2969320049yqtfd98434"><div class="yiv2969320049moz-cite-prefix">On 17/11/2017 17:52, Mikel Maron wrote:<br clear="none">
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<div>Yes, doing this is hard work, and appreciate the job
WeeklyOSM has to do. Point is, statements like "<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Yuri is as unreasonable as before and tries to
ignore all the unwritten rules in OSM" is inappropriate,
and there are many better ways to summarize the topic.</span></div></div>
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Well to be fair, the article as written didn't actually say that -
it said "is perceived by many as unreasonable".<br clear="none">
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Full disclosure - I'm an occasional contributor to the weekly OSM
newsletter. I didn't add or edit that article (actually I didn't
contribute to any last week - you can usually tell the ones I've
written because they have more links and perhaps too many words in
them), but although perhaps a little over-concise I don't think you
could argue with "perceived by many as unreasonable" - just wade
through the recent archives of the talk mailing list again and weigh
the arguments for and against. Also, there is such a thing as "fake
balance". Imagine you're running an article about someone who's
discussing ways to offset the problems caused by the Mercator
projection; you don't then need to also quote someone from the Flat
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Secondly - and this is a point that applies to many other areas of
OSM too - there seem far more people willing to contribute their
copy-editing skills here on a mailing list than actually helping put
_next_ week's newsletter together. It's not a new phenomenon - a
short while ago WeeklyOSM had a complaint from an OSM-centric
organisation (let's call it "X") that "we never report on what's
happening with X". It was politely suggested to the complainer that
perhaps they ought to volunteer themselves; then they could submit
all the articles they like. It went very quiet after that.<br clear="none">
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It's a similar situation with technical discussions elsewhere ("you
ought to render X like Y", "you ought to change how the osm.org
website works so I don't have to build infrastructure for $project",
"Nominatim ought to support my $odd_non_address_search_example").<br clear="none">
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Although there's always room for improvement, much of what's around
OSM now has a surprisingly low bar for entry, whether it's creating
a map based on OSM data that shows $favourite_but_quite_rare_tag, or
answering questions on the help site or forum, or as here,
volunteering to submit and review a few news articles a week.<br clear="none">
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Best Regards,<br clear="none">
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