[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 17 Oct 2022, at 15:44, John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The current system where a wiki can be edited by anyone or even the voting system where three or four people can gather together and declare a new wonderful way of tagging doesn't always reflect what taginfo tells us is used.


I believe it is a good thing that wiki editing is open to everyone, as long as we all keep in mind that the wiki aims at describing what is actually done, rather than prescribing how it must be done.

Some years ago one could have written anything crude and it may well have been unnoticed for several years, but I believe we now have a few more eyeballs on the edits and it happens less frequently that some disputed edit passes unobserved, at least for the more established tags. 

Btw: one of the phenomenons that make this review less efficient is the noise created from the many gardening edits, e.g. where Tag templates (without value) get changed to key templates, and back again. Or spaces and capitalization in tag status values in the tag template, stuff like this. These are super when there is actually a problem (value not recognized because of typo etc.), but they are pointless if the templates support both alternatives.