[OSM-dev] Deleting Wiki Contents (was: Street Addresses with Relations?)

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Karl Newman wrote:
 > The proposal page is a
> mess, and I'm tempted to wipe it out and start over.

This is something that should be done more often, and more liberally, on 
our Wiki. Only recently someone said on the German-language mailing list 
"well since using the coastline tag is deprecated..." and I went "WHAT?" 
- turns out that someone, with the very best intentions, accidentally 
resurrected half-year-old arguments against coastline tagging from the 
Wiki page and somehow created a conclusion that sounded like "coastline 
tagging is dead".

I know that in the big Wikis, there's a culture of never deleting 
other's comments on the talk page lest you step on their toes, but in a 
fast-moving environment like ours where people's attention is sometimes 
very sporadic, I think we should really delete (or at least, archive, 
but then the Wiki does that for us) anything that does not reflect the 
current state of affairs.

Bye
Frederik