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Hi<br>
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Unsure what Adam's precise error has been (User Page = TL;DR), but
giving the wiki a spring clean seems like good idea. Asking the
admin to remove old pages is the correct way to do it. Has he
deleted any himself? <br>
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How has making it clear that they're not current pages "made it
difficult to use the wiki"?<br>
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I get irritated when doing an OSM wiki/Google search & they
return proposals that have been redundant/ out of date for years. It
must be very confusing for new users (the people most likely to use
the wiki)<br>
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So many proposals are by users who get confused by a situation,
suggest a tag *very* similar to an existing one, or have a
'solution' to which they're desperate to find a problem to hang it
on.<br>
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What's wrong with cleaning up the wiki?<br>
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There appears to be a growing fear of removing obsolete data from
OSM, both the wiki & databases. I can't fathom why.<br>
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Cheers<br>
DaveF<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/07/2018 16:46, Michael Reichert
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
I (Mateusz Konieczny was faster) found a user who removes all content
from abandoned and rejected proposal pages on the wiki and adds the
Delete template. It's the template asking a administrator to delete the
page. I think that our admins are clever enough to not blindly follow
these requests but his edits cause unnecessary workload for them and
make it difficult to use the wiki.
I would appreciate it if someone else reading this email could comment
on his talk page. Maybe we are able to convince him why he is wrong.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Adamant1">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Adamant1</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adamant1">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adamant1</a>
These are some of the affected wiki pages:
*Proposal pages*
Proposed features/Adult services (shop=adult and other, has not reached
RFC for 8 years)
Proposed features/parking aisle (highway=parking_aisle, rejected, has
become obselete by service=parking_aisle)
Proposed features/Bag shop (shop=bag, tag in use, proposal abandoned)
Proposed features/boat=private (boat=private, has not reached RFC since
2008)
Proposed features/Marked trail (marked_trail=<color>, has not reached
RFC since 2008/2009)
Proposed_features/Fire_Hydrant (amenity=fire_hydrant, rejected in 2010,
12,000–14,000 objects from 2010 to 2015 in the database)
Proposed features/Driving pleasure (Driving_pleasure=1/2/3/4/5,
cancelled in 2010)
Proposed_features/agricultural_access (access=agricultural, proposal
never left draft state but 120,000 objects in the database)
Proposed_features/4th_Dimension (incomplete proposal from 2009 but long
discussion page)
*Documentation and other pages about "outdated software"
- Potlatch_1/Development_overview/GPS_tracks
- a lot of pages about Kosmos (predecessor of Maperitive), mainly
rendering rules
*Old events*
South_East_London_Mapping_Party (mapping party in 2008)
Best regards
Michael
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